Energy Management as Business Strategy

How to Get More Return from Your Assets
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Stop paying for energy. Start earning from it.

Energy management involves the systematic measurement, analysis and control of energy consumption within an organisation. The aim is to reduce waste, lower costs and gain greater control over energy costs and energy performance.

For businesses with high-volume energy connections – such as greenhouse horticulture, cold stores, logistics companies, industry or energy hubs – this is no luxury. It is an increasingly important part of business operations.

However, energy management as practised by most companies today often leaves a significant portion of the potential untapped.

What Your Installations Are Worth on the Market

A refrigeration or cold storage installation is not a cost centre. It is flexible capacity that can be deployed when electricity prices are low.

A CHP unit can be optimised based on live market prices for electricity, heat, gas and COâ‚‚. A 1 MW battery generates revenue through Day-Ahead trading, intraday optimisation and balancing services such as FCR, aFRR and mFRR.

The same applies to solar farms, wind farms, electric boilers, heat pumps and energy hubs. Each of those assets carries a market value that most businesses never capture.

Erik Henselmans

Erik Henselmans

‘We were looking for a partner who really understands how our business operates, as they will be responsible for managing everything in an integrated way.’

The difference is not in data. It is in decisions.

Eenergymanagement gives you a billing overview. Strategic energymanagement of Enova gives you control over costs, revenue and cash flow. Real-time. Per asset. Per market.

That requires more than a dashboard. It requires a daily trading strategy, market access and someone who makes the call at the moment the market moves.

We work with a dedicated energymanager who does exactly that, every day. Not advice that ends up in a drawer. Strategy and execution, combined.

What Clients Achieve

Over 40% reduction in energy supply costs through active nomination. A payback period of under three years on a 1 MW battery with a multi-market trading strategy. Additional revenue from energy trading, balancing services and congestion management.

The energy market is becoming more dynamic, not less. The return on your energy assets depends less and less on the technology you buy, and more and more on the quality of the management around it.

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‘Prices, markets, charging requirements and available space at the connection point are constantly changing. Our team and our technology monitor these developments and make adjustments where necessary.’

Enova's approach

Enova does not operate as a broker or intermediary. We operate as a market operator. This means we actively position your volumes across:

  • The day-ahead market: planning ahead based on price expectations and production forecasts
  • Intraday markets: continuously adjusting based on real-time data
  • Imbalance markets: correcting in real time when production or consumption deviates from plan, minimizing penalties while capturing upside opportunities
  • Long-term trading: forward contracts and hedging strategies to manage price risk and stabilize revenue

And we directly connect those market decisions to:

  • Asset control (batteries, CHP systems, cooling, production assets)
  • Automated trading strategies wherever possible
  • Full registration and auditability of every dispatch action

For us, Energy Trading is never disconnected from your operation. We make the market and your assets operate as one integrated system.

That is the difference between buying energy and managing energy as a performance component.

Your personal energy­manager

You’ll be assigned a single point of contact: your own energy manager. They monitor your installations on a daily basis, place bids on your behalf in the energy markets and make adjustments as soon as the market shifts. No post-event reports – just a partner to bounce ideas off for any energy-related issue. Backed by a whole team of specialists.

Kay Geurts

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