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Istanbul Airport proves smart energy management is a high-flying idea

Istanbul Airport – one of Europe’ s largest travel hubs, serving 90 million passengers each year is leading the way in energy management and sustainability in mission-critical infrastructure.

Effective energy management plays an essential role in improving the airport’ s overall operational efficiency. Power supply disruptions can have catastrophic consequences and wreak havoc on operations such as scheduled maintenance or software updates. For this reason, the airport must ensure the resilience of mission-critical infrastructure, such as emergency systems, server rooms and communications.

To maintain safety and uninterrupted operations, Istanbul Airport has deployed a set of advanced power monitoring systems from Socomec to track consumption, get real-time alerts of any earth leakage faults and be able to anticipate outages. Coupled with this, the airport deployed 300 Uninterruptible Power Supply( UPS) systems to ensure reliability and resilience. This commitment to optimising energy efficiency not only ensures business continuity, but also contributes to the organisation’ s carbon neutrality goals.

Optimising the injection of renewable energy

Integrating renewable energy sources can further enhance organisations’ sustainability efforts. Here, granular insight is key once again, since without accurate consumption monitoring, there is no way to correctly size renewables. What’ s more, even with the right consumption data to hand, many green projects never take off due to grid constraints. This is where modern energy storage systems can make a difference.

Organisations can use energy storage to supplement the grid when capacity is high, thereby reducing congestion and even saving costs. Excess energy can also be used to charge systems overnight, when tariffs are lower, or feed batteries connected to EVs or solar power units – reducing energy billing and increasing capacity for green initiatives. In fact, smart charging through energy storage solutions can reduce energy peaks by as much as 40 %.

Creating resilience today, achieving sustainability in the long run

Modular energy monitoring, measurement and management systems are key elements of resilient and efficient organisations today. Optimising energy

usage is not just about avoiding price spikes and reducing overall carbon footprints, but also about creating capacity for continued innovation.

With PwC revealing that more than 80 % of UK organisations expect to increase investment in energy management in the next 12 months, there is a strong incentive to treat energy as another product in the business – and ensure data-driven decisions are being made to drive progress forward. �

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