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Unlocking Tomorrow's Energy: Lumenaza Shaping the Future of Decentralized Power
Products and Services
Lumenaza offers a range of products and services aimed at facilitating the management and optimization of decentralized energy systems. Some of their key offerings include:
Billing: Individual invoice layout, this allows companies to customize the look and feel of their invoices to match their corporate identity. Compliance with regulatory requirements feature ensures that invoices comply with all relevant regulations. Companies can easily adjust their invoices to reflect changes in tariffs, labour prices, and other factors. The software allows companies to offer different tariffs to different customers based on their needs, as well as set different labour prices and basic fees for different services. Their software allows companies to set different prices for different zip codes based on competition.
Virtual Power Plant: Lumenaza's virtual power plant (VPP) enables optimal marketing of even the smallest decentralized, renewable plants on the energy markets. This is particularly relevant today, given the historically high electricity prices and expiring subsidies, making direct marketing an attractive business even for small plants. The VPP also supports vehicle-to-grid applications, further enhancing the value proposition for green energy companies. Lumenaza's platform leverages a high level of digitalization, automating processes from registration to physical connection, monitoring, data verification, and billing. This automation reduces cost-to-serve and streamlines operations.
Market processes electricity: Lumenaza's platform automates a wide range of business processes, reducing the need for manual intervention and streamlining operations. The platform is updated free of charge in the event of format changes and regulatory adjustments, ensuring that companies are always using the latest version of the software. Lumenaza's market partner management feature provides a comprehensive view of all relevant data, including market partner master data, exchanged data, notes, and contact persons. This centralized view enables companies to manage their market partner relationships effectively.
Contract management & CRM: Their software offers a comprehensive customer lifecycle management solution that maps the complete customer lifecycle, including all contractual relationships. This includes everything from registration to the end of the contract. The software allows you to track the status and interaction with your customers in real time, ensuring a smooth customer relationship and modern service. The software also offers open API interfaces, allowing you to easily integrate with leading CRM providers, such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, and Zoho.
Customer Portal: This is designed to improve customer service productivity by increasing service quality and customer experience while reducing customer support efforts. The portal provides end customers with comprehensive data at a glance, allowing them to manage contract-related and personal data themselves. They can also receive comprehensive visualizations of their consumption and feed-in quantities, personal CO2 savings, and information about their electricity community. The portal can be accessed via any common browser and simultaneously as an app on any mobile device after initial installation, creating a symbiosis of a responsive website and a mobile app.
Consulting services: This can help companies in the energy industry navigate the new, decentralized energy world. They specialize in optimizing energy management processes, identifying flexibility potentials, and developing revenue sources. Lumenaza can help companies of all sizes, regardless of their market experience or services, operate as sustainable energy providers and meet the demands of modern customers. They can help companies with PV roof systems, for example, address questions about yield and calculation security, direct marketing, and self-consumption of solar power
Case Studies
Lumenaza and eprimo collaborate to build green energy community
Eprimo's Grünstromcommunity brings together producers and consumers of local and sustainably-generated green energy, with the electricity being produced by members from all over Germany. The community offers attractive conditions for both consumers and producers who can make their unused electricity available to the community.
Lumenaza connects the renewable energy plants in the Grünstromcommunity to consumers via its energy as a service platform. The platform automatically creates individual projections for each plant and handles billing for the producers. It also manages associated complex energy management processes.
Market Position
Lumenaza has positioned itself as a key player in the market for decentralized energy management solutions, particularly in Europe. They have been recognized for their innovative approach to integrating and managing decentralized energy resources. Lumenaza's solutions support the integration of renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. They also help utilities and energy providers optimize energy usage and reduce carbon footprints. As a company it primarily operates in Europe, where there is significant interest and investment in renewable energy and decentralized energy systems.
Lumenaza serves a diverse customer base including energy suppliers, grid operators, property developers, and municipalities. Their solutions cater to both commercial and residential sectors, offering flexibility and scalability.
Competitors
Kiwi Power is a UK-based energy technology company specializing in demand response and energy management solutions. They provide software and services that enable businesses to participate in demand-side flexibility programs, helping to balance electricity supply and demand. Kiwi Power's platform integrates with renewable energy sources and storage systems, optimizing energy usage and supporting grid stability.
Flexitricity is a UK-based company that specializes in demand response and energy flexibility solutions. They offer services that enable businesses, industrial sites, and energy assets to participate in demand-side response programs. Flexitricity aggregates flexible energy assets such as generators, batteries, and flexible loads into a Virtual Power Plant (VPP). Their platform optimizes the operation of these assets to provide grid balancing services, enhance energy efficiency, and support the integration of renewable energy sources.
Sonnen, based in Germany, is a leading manufacturer of residential energy storage systems. They specialize in producing smart batteries that store energy generated from solar panels for use during peak demand periods or when the sun isn't shining. Sonnen's systems are designed to optimize energy consumption, reduce electricity costs, and increase the self-sufficiency of homeowners by enabling them to use more of their self-generated renewable energy. Additionally, Sonnen offers virtual power plant solutions, where multiple energy storage systems are aggregated to provide grid services and support stability in the electricity network.
Pricing
The software is customized to each client so price is available only once the company has assessed what is required.
