Smart energy

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.

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Highlighted products

System managers

The system manager is the key component of the intelligent Danfoss ADAP-KOOL® refrigeration system for food retail.
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Related applications

Case controls

Your 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.
CO₂ in food retail

Danfoss has pioneered CO₂ refrigeration systems for more than 10 years. Learn more about our CO₂ refrigeration solutions for supermarkets here.
HVAC integration in supermarkets

Align 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.
Monitoring and management

Connecting 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.
Smart store

The Smart Store solution enhances food safety and brings down the energy bill by integrated and smart control of refrigeration, HVAC, lighting and other applications.

Articles

Managing operational efficiency in food retail – 5 global trends and how to respond

If 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.
Supermarket energy optimization: why efficiency is only half the story

In 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.

Case studies

VLT® drives run the world’s smartest district energy system

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.
A new shade of green for grocery stores

The 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.
Danfoss helps transform supermarkets into smart stores for demand response

With 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.
Five steps to unlock the cooling potential of EU’s clean energy for all package

Five Steps to Unlock the Cooling Potential of EU’s Clean Energy for All Package
Smart energy systems impact on supermarkets

The 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.
Local residents stay warm thanks to supermarket’s cooling system

Local supermarkets can send their surplus heat to the district heating network and thereby heat private homes in the area and reduce CO2 emissions

News

New Optyma™ Control upgrade helps installers deliver more efficient, connected cold rooms

Thursday, December 3, 2020

Danfoss has unveiled an upgraded version of its popular Optyma™ cold room controller that adds new efficiency features and connectivity for self-contained rooms, remote condensing units and rack systems alike.
You can now plan out CO₂ transcritical refrigeration systems with Coolselector®2

Friday, November 13, 2020

Coolselector®2 is a free cooling calculation software that helps you optimize any HVACR system. Now, with the latest update to the software, you can select components for transcritical high-pressure side applications.
CO2 made easy for small format stores: Danfoss launches products for a CO2 MiniPack solution

Monday, November 2, 2020

The new CO2 MiniPack Solution makes it easy for the owners of small stores to harness the benefits of CO2 by combining five 100% compatible products into a single solution.

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