GABRIËL DE JONG System builder · Zaandam
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West’s Fruit Garden

A ten-year track record in sustainable energy flows, now growing into a fully-fledged EMS-driven micro-grid. Proof instead of promises.

For ten years he has managed the heat and cold flows of a business where a café, a shop, cooling, chicory grown on residual heat and a home together form one energy system. The Homer EMS charges the forklift and golf carts at the cheapest electricity prices; soon 400 solar panels and large batteries will come under EMS control.

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Stories
The forklift charges when electricity is cheap A forklift doesn't care when it charges — as long as it is full when work begins. Read the story → From Raspberry Pi to micro-grid: ten years at Fruittuin van West From relays on a wooden panel to an EMS-driven micro-grid — ten years of building one energy system. Read the story →

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