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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System managersThe system manager is the key component of the intelligent Danfoss ADAP-KOOL® refrigeration system for food retail.
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Danfoss Enterprise Services replaced by Alsense Food Retail
At Danfoss, we build our business on trust and integrity - we stand by you from end to end, ready to respond to your needs and always keeping our promises.
Related applications
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Updated, sustainable cloud platform from Danfoss will increase store efficiencyWednesday, October 7, 2020
Danfoss debuts Alsense™ IoT Food Retail Services, powered by Microsoft Azure.
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Danfoss releases long-lasting, reliable backup power module for electronic stepper motor valvesMonday, July 13, 2020
Danfoss has just released its EKE 2U backup power module for applications such as chillers, heat pumps, cold room, CRAC, and food retail—making it easier than ever to protect the compressor in the event of a power outage.
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CO₂ made easy for small format stores: Introducing the new Danfoss CCMT LightMonday, April 27, 2020
The CCMT Light is the latest addition to our growing CO₂ portfolio. The valve is robust, accurate, and easy-to-use, with a focus on stress-free valve installation and field service. It has a high tolerance for dirt and debris, reducing service-related incidences and improving long-term system reliability.
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