Optimize your energy solutions with smart energy
Energy cost is one of the biggest expenses in the daily operation of your supermarkets. Therefore, retailers increasingly look to enhance the energy efficiency within the stores. At Danfoss, our long-term ambition is to enable net-zero stores or even stores that give more than they take in terms of energy. Smart energy solutions can turn traditional supermarkets into the supermarkets of tomorrow by taking advantage of renewables sources, energy storage and arbitrage.
With Danfoss Smart Store E solutions, we reveal some of the exciting opportunities available in order to constantly maximize energy efficiency in the food retail sector. Solar energy, demand response, car charging, and electric and thermal storage are just some of the solutions that are available today.
Features and benefits
Cut your energy costs
Offer car charging to customers
Become an energy producer
Strengthen your green profile

Introduction to Smart Store E
Find out how the Danfoss Smart Store E solutions can turn traditional supermarkets into the supermarkets of tomorrow by taking advantage of renewables sources, energy storage and arbitrage.
Highlighted products
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Related applications
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Case controlsYour refrigeration system is the natural place to look for energy efficiency gains. To unlock that potential, you need a controller, expansion valve, and high accuracy sensors that are smart enough to make the technology work together—and a system manager that can help you see and control the bigger picture.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }CO₂ in food retailDanfoss has pioneered CO₂ refrigeration systems for more than 10 years. Learn more about our CO₂ refrigeration solutions for supermarkets here.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Emission monitoring for marineOur innovative sensors precisely and continuously measure climate parameters and environmentally harmful gases, providing documentation of regulatory compliance and essential input for energy optimization.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }HVAC integration in supermarketsAlign your heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems, to save money, safeguard stock, and reduce your environmental impact. Integrated solutions unlock the full potential of each application and increases the efficiency of the entire system.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Monitoring and managementConnecting your refrigeration system to the cloud offers a world of possibilities to save money and improve food safety. Remote monitoring and management make it easy to check and triage system alarm.
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Articles
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Supermarket energy optimization: why efficiency is only half the storyIn the last few years, supermarkets have made great advances in energy efficiency - reducing both overhead and their environmental impact.
Reducing energy use is valuable, and always will be. But there’s another side to reducing energy costs. Increasingly, the biggest potential saving isn’t only in using less energy; it’s in optimizing how it’s used, and when. -
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Managing operational efficiency in food retail – 5 global trends and how to respondIf you work in facilities or energy management for a food retailer, change is something you handle every day. When the way we live, work, or shop changes, new food retail technology is close behind.
Case stories
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danfoss shaft generators drive down emissions on boardSOUTH KOREA: The South Korean National Institute of Fishery Science is enjoying great fuel savings and 20-30% less emissions from its newest research vessel. A special shaft generator solution enabled the vessel to comply with the IMO environmental regulations effective in 2020.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }VLT® drives run the world’s smartest district energy systemDENMARK: Taarnby Municipality within Greater Copenhagen is the first to integrate the production of district cooling and district heating in combination with ground source cooling and chilled water storage in one facility that also exploits surplus heat from a nearby wastewater treatment plant. This symbiosis allows the utility company to provide building owners in the district with competitive and environmentally friendly cooling – while generating more cost-effective heating to the district heating network.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }A new shade of green for grocery storesThe supermarket aktiv & irma in Oldenburg, Germany, has pressed the start-button to a solution enabling it to store and generate electricity. The grocery store’s manager calls it a leap forward in energy supply. Danfoss and SMA have helped make it happen. Learn how.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danfoss helps transform supermarkets into smart stores for demand responseWith an IoT-enabled demand response program utilizing Danfoss controllers and system managers, supermarket chain Giant Eagle is able to enhance food safety, detect malfunctioning equipment and reduce costly energy waste.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Smart energy systems impact on supermarketsThe energy agenda globally shifts towards reduced and zero emission scenarios and a substantial part of future energy supply will be based on renewables. To establish resiliency around a fundamentally unstable energy production flexible consumption and storage is necessary. This is smart energy systems.
News
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }ANEO Retail & Danfoss expand “Energy as a Service” offering to Danish food retailersFriday, June 9, 2023ANEO Retail and Danfoss, the multi-national engineering group, are expanding their collaboration of innovative energy service solution for the food retail industry. After a successful establishment in Sweden, the journey now moves on to Denmark.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danfoss is introducing a new family of entry-level case/refrigeration controllers for Food retail applicationsMonday, June 5, 2023The new EKC 22x family brings modern, yet familiar design, convenient setting menu navigation, support for different sensor types, 16A compressor relay, and system integration to Danfoss front end s via EKA 206 RS-485 (Modbus) adapter. The new controllers and adapter will initially launch with CE and UL approvals with more to come.
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; } else if (isBigColumns) { } else { }Danfoss at EuroShop 2023: Unlock 360º of efficiencyMonday, January 9, 2023Danfoss is pleased to announce its participation at EuroShop 2023, from February 26–March 2, 2023, in Düsseldorf, Germany. From small stores to hypermarkets, and from the sensor to the cloud, Danfoss is helping its food retail customers achieve end-to-end efficiency with products and solutions that unite heating and cooling systems to reduce your energy bill, heat loss, and food waste.
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