Revolution in the energy market: This is how households save with intelligent technology!

Revolution in the energy market: This is how households save with intelligent technology!

RAZO Energy, a promising start-up founded at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), is at the center of a pioneering development in the energy sector. With the aim of using renewable energies efficiently and minimizing electricity costs, the company offers an innovative, intelligent energy management system. This system networks various energy sources and building technology in order to optimize self-consumption and ensure stable energy use. KIT reports that RAZO Energy will be presented at the Hannover Messe, which takes place from March 31 to April 4, 2025, in Hall 13, Stand C76.

A key problem for many homeowners is the underuse of their photovoltaic systems and battery storage. Max Schütze, co-founder of RAZO Energy, criticizes the fact that many systems are not as intelligently networked as the manufacturers promise. In this context, RAZO Energy has developed a cloud-based platform that makes it possible to automatically coordinate different energy sources and consumers. Thanks to a mathematical optimization model with artificial intelligence, real-time measurement data is combined with forecasts for photovoltaic systems to dynamically adjust the energy flow.

Challenges and opportunities for the solar industry

The current legal innovation, which will come into force from 2025, limits the maximum feed-in power of photovoltaic systems to 60% of the installed power. MeinStrom reports that This is necessary to avoid network overloads and increase the self-consumption rate. Operators of PV systems are now required to increasingly focus their energy production on their own consumption.

This adaptation not only requires changes in consumption behavior, but also investments in modern storage systems and control technologies. In the long term, operators benefit from independence from the electricity market and a reduction in their energy costs. In connection with this change in the law, the feed-in tariff will be adjusted so that it will be suspended if the exchange electricity price is negative, which can lead to uncertainty, especially on sunny days with low demand.

Network stability and innovative solutions

The amendment to the EnWG, which will come into force from 2025, means that new systems installed from March 1, 2025 will no longer receive feed-in tariffs if the exchange electricity price is below €0.00. Memodo explains that However, the previous regulation on feed-in tariffs for hours with a positive electricity price remains in place. This means that system operators still benefit from solar funding as “lost” hours are added to the end of the funding period.

These innovations are intended not only to make self-consumption of solar power more attractive, but also to ease the load on the networks and thus increase operational efficiency for operators. RAZO Energy makes a significant contribution to promoting the stability of the power grid by optimally matching consumption and generation and reducing load peaks. The company is also planning a pilot project for a virtual power plant, which will allow users of electric cars, for example, to significantly reduce their costs.