Emile Rock

Business Developer for flexibility, Agregio Solutions

In the context of rising energy costs and environmental challenges, electrical load shedding is emerging as a key solution for companies in the tertiary, cold logistics and agro-industrial sectors. But how does it work, and what are the benefits?
Emile Rock, Business Developer for Flexibility at Agregio Solutions, a specialist in load shedding, gives us the details of this system.

What is load shedding ?

Load shedding involves temporarily reducing your electricity consumption at key times, in response to the needs of the grid. This approach is managed by specialized operators, such as Agregio Solutions, who coordinate shedding periods without impacting business activity.

How does it work on your site?

In the cold logistics and agro-industry sectors, load shedding is based on two main strategies:

• Temporary modulation of refrigeration units: this method exploits the thermal inertia of cold stores. In concrete terms, your cold stores can handle a slight rise in temperature for a short period without compromising the quality and integrity of the products stored, or risking a sanitary problem. The cold production system is temporarily shut down, reducing electricity consumption. Thermal inertia is the resistance to temperature change, enables acceptable conditions to be maintained during the shutdown*.

*The deletion time is 1 to 2 hours.

• Switching to internal generation: this approach involves activating a generator to continue powering the plant without drawing electricity from the grid.

Why integrate deletion on your site?

Load shedding represents a lever for profitability that :

• involves 0 financial risk
• becomes a source of additional income: by participating in load shedding, companies are remunerated.
• brings better control of consumption: load shedding encourages analysis and improved management of installations, which can lead to savings over the long term.

Deletion is also a concrete environmental commitment that :

• enhances your CSR approach: load shedding is part of a socially responsible approach. Committed companies can communicate their contribution to grid stability.
• has a positive impact on the power system as a whole: by reducing demand during critical periods, companies involved in load shedding help to secure power supplies for all.

How do you secure your operations during deletion?

“Our teams can carry out tests before the contract is put in place to ensure that each site is capable of meeting its commitments in complete safety. We also support our customers in optimizing their consumption and promoting their CSR commitment.” – Emile Rock, Agregio Solutions

How do you set up load shedding at your site?

There are 5 steps:

1. Contact our experts to analyze your consumption and your potential for deletion.
2. Present the solution to answer your questions and assess the benefits for your site.
3. Organize tests if necessary to define your real deletion capacity.
4. Sign the contract with legal and operational support.
5. Set up and monitor the start-up of load shedding with personalized follow-up.