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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

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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

Related applications

Articles

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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.

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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.

Case stories

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    Huge district cooling substation for department store in Helsinki

    Stockmann department store is located in the heart of Finland’s capital, Helsinki. It is the largest department store in Finland. It was started in 1930 and the building which is home to the department store has undergone several changes through the years. The most current enlargement project also involved Danfoss who delivered a huge district cooling substation to the department store. District cooling production was started in 1998 in Helsinki.

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    Danfoss shaft generators drive down emissions on board

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

    DENMARK: 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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    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.

News

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    Danfoss Sensing Solutions supports the transition to low GWP refrigerants with its new DST Gxxx A2L refrigerant detection sensors
    Tuesday, January 23, 2024

    For over 55 years, Danfoss Sensing Solutions has supplied innovative sensing solutions to HVAC/R system builders around the world. Now, as the industry transitions to low-GWP refrigerants, Danfoss has put its decades of sensing experience to work to design the safest and most accurate A2L refrigerant detection sensor on the market.

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    ANEO Retail & Danfoss expand “Energy as a Service” offering to Danish food retailers
    Friday, June 9, 2023

    ANEO 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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    Danfoss is introducing a new family of entry-level case/refrigeration controllers for Food retail applications
    Monday, June 5, 2023

    The 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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