Be it to counter the high energy prices or to reduce the carbon footprint: the industry faces major challenges in terms of energy efficiency in production.Intelligent grids and DC technology can help increase efficiency.Numerous solutions will be presented at the Hanover Fair.Automation and smart grids can help industry increase energy efficiency.Installing a photovoltaic system or purchasing green electricity is not a great art, although of course it is commendable.However, the industry faces much more difficult challenges.It wants and should reduce the CO2 footprint, while at the same time it has to reduce consumption in order to counter rising energy prices.Solutions for this complex situation can be found at the Hannover Messe 2023.With the new Smart Energy Monitoring, exhibitor Baumüller offers a solution for intelligent energy monitoring of machines and systems.With the new software, the energy consumption of individual production orders can be recorded transparently and, in a second step, optimized on the basis of a reference value.The reference measurement also makes it possible to detect energetic deterioration in the production process.Most industrial users are still hardly aware of many hidden energy consumptions.Unregulated motors in pumps, fans, compressors or machines are still part of everyday life in many factories.This is where electrical engineering knowledge and IT come into play, which can help to improve energy efficiency in production processes.Direct current lines (DC) are gaining in importance in connection with increases in energy efficiency.Direct voltage has the advantage that frequency converters become smaller and factories become consumers and suppliers of energy at the same time - a so-called prosumer.For example, employees' e-cars can be used as temporary storage.Intelligent networks are becoming increasingly important in this context.It's not just about the machines communicating with the energy supply.The machines in a logistics center don't always have to run at 100 percent full capacity when they know that the truck is stuck in a traffic jam.“In order to solve such tasks, you need domain knowledge.We have that as an automator and that's why many tech companies envy us," explains Christian Wendler from the exhibitor Lenze.He predicts a decade of automation.Anyone interested in the topics of energy efficiency and intelligent networks will find exactly the right stage at the Energy 4.0 Conference Stages at the Hannover Messe.There the questions of an energy-intelligent, climate-friendly and sustainable future will be answered.Here, pioneers in the industry, top-class experts and practitioners can present the latest trends and answer questions from the industry.A packed program will be on offer during the days of the trade fair between April 17, 2023 and April 20, 2023.For those who cannot be there on site, there is a live stream of the individual events.Many European automation companies are considered winners of the high energy prices because they have the technical answers for many applications: from storage solutions to speed control to DC networks.True to the motto: Saving energy is only possible through the interaction of data, algorithms and physics.And as already mentioned – without networking, it will not work in the future.For many companies, energy data has so far been ignored.That has to change, production and energy data have to be merged.Automation can help save energy, water and carbon dioxide.An example: The Schaltbau plant – highly automated and with direct current supply – is to reduce costs by up to 35 percent.According to research by Dr.Mirjana Ristic from Bosch Rexroth as part of technology scouting for DC technology and according to the results of the publicly funded DC-INDUSTRIE project, there is great energy-saving potential in this technology: "Industry uses around 45 percent of the electricity in Germany, around 70 percent of which is accounted for by drive systems.If we start there, we can achieve major gains in efficiency.”How high is the energy saving potential?At the Central Association of Electrical Engineering and Electronics Industry e.V. (ZVEI), the experts calculate with an energy saving potential of around ten percent.The cost effect is estimated at around 20 percent.This is primarily due to the savings in AC (alternating current) DC converters on the motors.The average system availability can also be increased to around 98 percent.Content Manager at VDI Verlag.After studying civil engineering and further training as an online editor, traineeship and 20 years as a web copywriter for an internet agency and an online shop, he ended up at ingenieur.de.He mainly writes about technology and research.Companies present innovative solutions for everything to do with hydrogen and fuel cellsEverything on one stage: Current trends in industrial transformation"Your Future" brings talented young people and industry togetherInspiring program at the WomenPower careers congress at the Hannover MesseThe Fraunhofer IMM is making ammonia fit for the energy transitionRobert Habeck discusses climate-friendly production with industrySummit meeting at the Hanover Fair: Lightweight construction and the circular economyCompanies present innovative solutions for everything to do with hydrogen and fuel cellsHACK4INDUSTRY brings industry and startups togetherAlways keep an eye on the most important things: With our two newsletters, you won't miss any more news from the brave new world of technology and you'll receive career tips for everything to do with job searches and applications.Are you more enthusiastic about one topic than the other?Then simply choose your free favourite.Cookies are also used on this site.We can use it to evaluate page usage in order to display usage-based editorial content and advertising.This is important for us, because our offer is financed by advertising.Use of the site is considered consent to the use of cookies.Further information