Renson focuses on smart control for collective heat pumps in apartment buildings
"With smarter control for collective heat pumps, Renson can focus on peak reduction, lower energy costs at the right moment and stable comfort for residents."
Renson focuses on smart control for collective heat pumps in apartment buildings
How do you smartly manage energy in an apartment building where multiple residents share one common heat pump? For Renson, this was a logical next step in the further development of Renson One. While individual control in a single home already enables significant optimisation, the challenge grows once several apartments share a collective system. At that point, controlling each unit separately is no longer sufficient: coordination is needed between different users, energy demands and comfort needs.
That was precisely the motivation for the collaboration with Flanders Make. Together, we focused on apartment buildings with a shared heat pump and investigated how control could be organised more intelligently. The goal was to better align the collective system with the simultaneous demands of multiple apartments, without compromising resident comfort.
Smarter control for a more complex building context
Within this collaboration, the focus was on extending the existing Renson One concept to a more complex application. In an apartment building with a collective heat pump, the control system must account not only for the energy demand of one user, but of multiple apartments that may call for heating or cooling at the same time. This requires a more coordinated form of control. By organising that control more intelligently, opportunities arise to use the energy system more efficiently. The system can help reduce consumption peaks, manage energy costs by responding smartly to variable energy prices, while keeping resident comfort stable. It is therefore not just about reducing energy consumption in absolute terms, but also about using energy more smartly at the right moment.
Added value for residents and for Renson
The added value manifests on multiple levels. For residents and building managers, it lies in a better-aligned energy system, with the potential for peak reduction, savings on energy costs and a stable comfort level throughout the building. For Renson, the added value lies in the opportunity to make its solution applicable in a new building context — in particular, apartment buildings with a collective heat pump.
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