How to transform your home into an efficient power hub.
Advantages of smart energymanagement
The hidden value in smart energy solutions.
- Independence.
Take control of your energy future with smart management and on-site electricity generation. Reduce dependence on fluctuating electricity prices and gain the freedom to generate, store, and use power on your own terms.
- Complete Transparency.
Gain real-time visibility into your energy consumption and production. Advanced monitoring provides detailed insights to identify optimization opportunities and track performance trends. This transparency empowers you to fine-tune your daily routines for maximum efficiency.
- Environmental stability.
Harness renewable energy sources intelligently to maximize their environmental impact. Smart energy management optimizes solar, wind, and other clean sources, ensuring you get the most from every green kilowatt while reducing your carbon footprint.
- Property value enhancement.
Smart energy solutions increase your home's value and make it more appealing to buyers. These modern systems are an investment that pays back through lower bills today and a higher selling price tomorrow.
Definition
What is energy management?
Energy management is a smart system that connects and controls all the electrical devices in your home. It acts like a digital coordinator, deciding when to use solar power from your roof, when to store energy in batteries, and when to buy electricity from the grid.
The system automatically makes these decisions to save you money. For example, it might run your dishwasher when your solar panels are producing the most power, or charge your electric car late at night when electricity rates are lowest.
Energy management maximizes your solar power usage, keeping more energy in your home instead of selling it back to the grid at low prices. With dynamic pricing, the system automatically runs energy-intensive appliances during the cheapest hours—you don't need to monitor prices yourself.
You also get clear insights into your energy consumption and costs, helping you spot patterns and optimize usage. Everything runs automatically without disrupting your daily routine, simply reducing your electricity bills.
Key components of a smart system
Key components that make up your integrated energy system.
With a Vaillant heat pump, combined with a solar PV system and optional battery storage, the energy transition begins in your own home. This creates a maximally efficient integrated system where your self-generated solar electricity powers your heat pump and other household electrical devices. This puts you in control of optimizing your energy self-consumption and becoming more independent from rising energy prices and fossil fuels.
- A - Heat Pump: Provides 75% of your heating and hot water energy free from the environment. Smart interfaces enable seamless system integration for optimal efficiency.
- B - Solar PV System: Generates electricity to power your heat pump, creating a smart connection between renewable electricity and heat.
- C - Hybrid-PV-inverter with battery storage: Stores solar electricity generated during sunny periods and provides it to your heat pump and household appliances when needed.
- D - Grid Connection: Links your home to the electricity network, allowing you to use energy when it's most affordable and sustainable.
- E - Smart Meter: Intelligent meter that tracks real-time energy consumption and enables dynamic tariffs and strategic appliance control.
- F - Wallbox: Personal EV charging station that makes electric mobility convenient, sustainable, and economical.
- G - Energy Management System / System control : Automatically controls the entire system to reduce costs and maximize solar self-consumption, generating heat precisely when needed from renewable sources.
The international communication standard
EEBUS: the universal language of smart energy.
For a successful energy transition, devices and systems must communicate seamlessly. EEBUS serves as the international standard that enables devices from different manufacturers and technologies to interact efficiently, optimizing energy management across your entire smart home.
Through EEBUS, household appliances like washing machines and refrigerators can exchange data with solar panels and battery storage systems, regardless of the brand. Vaillant supports this "world language of energy" through our and system controllers, plus the myVAILLANT connect internet module.
This enables perfect energy coordination between your power grid and system components: heating, solar panels, battery storage, and electric vehicles work together intelligently.
The result: lower costs and meaningful climate protection.
If you have an existing EEBUS-compatible solar system, you can easily add a Vaillant heat pump for even greater energy savings. The only requirement is an EEBUS interface to connect the heat pump and system controller. With the myVAILLANT app, you gain intelligent energy management capabilities—monitor daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly energy yields while adjusting hot water and heating settings remotely.
