Turn change into success by optimizing your energy process

Oct 9, 2024

The energy industry is in the middle of a radical transformation. Energy producers and industrial consumers have to deal with changes every day. These changes can be turned into opportunities by optimizing the energy process. Improving both profitability and sustainability.

Two key benefits stand out: making more money out of more markets and achieving a fast return on investment.

When you optimize the energy process, you can increase the returns from electricity markets - and access new ones from day-ahead to intraday and reserve markets.

Did you know that you can safely extend the minimum and maximum operational limits of your plant with optimization – and possibly postpone investing in new assets? In some cases, process optimization has paid for itself during the first hour.

In addition to these quick wins, process optimization will deliver lasting value. By using raw materials more efficiently, for example, you improve both profitability and sustainability every day. For years.

How do we start continuous improvement?

Improving at the pace of your team is key. We begin with a study to uncover your needs and opportunities for improvement. There’s no need to change everything at once. Just add a process performance solution when the time suits you.

We integrate the solution with your current systems, no matter who the supplier is, creating a flexible solution that keeps continuously improving. This minimizes risks and delivers ever higher value over the whole lifecycle. That’s why we like outcome-based contracts and can offer performance guarantees to over 80% of our optimization customers.

An example of how we do it

In the first meeting, we identify and discuss the changed business environment and future scenarios. We then propose a performance consultancy in which our experts familiarize themselves with your operation, processes, sustainability targets and business model.

Based on this, we provide you with key findings and recommendations, such as:

Findings	Recommendations
You plan to renew the production fleet.	To ensure that you make the right decision in a complex and changing environment, we propose a study on how to optimize the investment long-term by identifying opportunities to improve profitability and sustainability with, for example, the optimal fuel mix.
Your current energy management solution does not meet the demands of modern energy markets.	Replace the existing energy management solution with the Valmet DNA Energy Management System to increase revenue by unlocking the potential of changing energy markets.
Operational costs can be reduced.	Improve existing control system performance with more advanced controls while ensuring that base level controls work as they should.
Raw materials, energy and fuel could be used more efficiently.	Use raw materials, energy, fuels and additives more efficiently to cut both costs and emissions.
The overall stability of your process operations can be improved.	Improve flexibility and increase the range of operations with more stable process conditions.
Your production capacity can be expanded.	With more advanced control, the production unit can operate at higher maximum and lower minimum levels, ensuring that production meets demand.
There’s potential for system-wide optimization.	Advanced automation and control improve flexibility, increasing your revenues from electricity markets and granting access to new ones.
You need long-term protection for your system and investment.	A Valmet Performance agreement ensures that the system is effectively maintained and even improved over time.

Our team of process optimization experts is ready to help. We can calculate how much optimization can improve your profitability. Feel free to reach out for more information.