Netzpolitik.org author Jana Ballweber interviewed InnoCharge founder Manuel Lösch about the effects of the energy transition and the role of digitalization. The article addresses the overall increase in electricity demand, limited storage capacities in the grid, the challenges of planning reliability with renewables, the need for energy management in distribution grids, as well as data protection concerns and security risks that need to be taken into account when it comes to digitalization.
In particular, the reasons for increased points of contact between electricity customers and electricity grid operations as well as the challenges and opportunities presented by decentralized energy management will also be discussed. InnoCharge founder Manuel Lösch explains how the switch from a few hundred large power plants to millions of weather-dependent small systems and the additional increase in loads due to electromobility in particular are affecting previous assumptions and mechanisms in the energy system. This is precisely where InnoCharge charging optimization comes in and helps to efficiently integrate a high proportion of renewable energy sources into our electricity grids by intelligently controlling charging processes.