Energy management for food & cold chain
The cold chain protected.The energy peak tamed.
Cooling systems can never shut down, but they don't need to run at full power constantly. Evogrid remotely monitors every cooling unit and leverages your thermal mass as an energy buffer—ensuring uncompromising food safety while flattening your energy profile.
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cooling units monitored remotely for a single producer
− 92%
reduction in reactive power penalties for a 12,000+ store chain
24/7
continuous monitoring of the cold chain and energy consumption
The challenge
Cooling is your biggest energy consumer—and your greatest risk.
Hidden cooling consumption drains your margins
Units running outside their optimal cycles or quietly consuming excess power only appear on the invoice months later. In cold storage facilities, cooling alone accounts for two-thirds of total electricity usage.
Production and cooling create massive peak loads
Process equipment and cooling installations often kick in simultaneously, setting expensive peak demand tariffs. This leads to heavy penalties and constrained grid connections, all while energy makes up a massive portion of your operating costs.
A late fault discovery equals severe product loss
A failure detected too late doesn't just cost you kilowatt-hours—it costs you entire batches of compromised product and potential reputational damage.
The platform
A single platform for every kW on your site.
From the cold room to the charging plaza: everything runs on the exact same monitoring and control layer.
Hardware-agnostic: Evogrid connects seamlessly to your existing cooling and control systems via Modbus, OCPP, and open APIs. No expensive rip-and-replace required.
What Evogrid does
How Evogrid powers the food sector.
From production facilities to retail chains: every cooling unit, meter, and installation united in a single, intelligent monitoring layer.
Remote monitoring for every cooling unit
Deviating consumption, out-of-cycle running, or a creeping base load is flagged instantly—tracked per individual unit and per site.
Thermal mass as a virtual battery
Pre-cool during off-peak, cheaper hours while staying strictly within safe temperature margins. The cold chain remains perfectly protected, and your peak demand flattens seamlessly.
Fault detection before product is compromised
A faltering unit triggers a proactive alert long before the cold chain is put at risk—automatically dispatching a work order to the right technician.
Total control across multiple locations
Centralize the monitoring of consumption, invoices, and reactive power penalties for every site—scaling effortlessly from a single factory to thousands of retail stores.
Double the ROI on your battery
Shave peak loads, maximize self-consumption of solar power, and generate revenue on the imbalance market. Unlock the full value of your battery, even if you already work with an energy trading partner.
Maximize self-generated solar
Cooling and freezing loads are intelligently shifted to match peak solar generation. More of your own clean power protects your product; less is drawn from the grid.
Real-time insight
You know what you pay. Now see exactly why.
Every unit, meter, and location visible in one live dashboard.
Costs per unit, per hour
Every cold room and production line is metered separately. Creeping consumption and anomalies stand out immediately, allowing for rapid intervention.
Cost per unit, per hour
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Real-time generation vs. consumption
See exactly how much of your own solar power is actively cooling your product—and precisely when the grid steps in.
Generation vs. consumption
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Forecast vs. reality
Benefit from 97–99% forecast accuracy for consumption and pricing. A unit running out of step is exposed today, not hidden on next month's invoice.
Forecast vs. actual
a unit out of step shows today, not on the invoice
Reporting & regulation
HACCP, CSRD, audits? The documentation writes itself.
Every reporting obligation in the food sector requires the same foundation: continuous, highly accurate data. Evogrid automates this for you.
Continuous temperature logging
Every cooling unit is logged continuously within its margins. Your HACCP compliance file is always up to date—zero manual work required.
Continuous temperature logging
cooling unit · 24 h
CSRD reporting from meter data
Generate audit-proof energy and CO₂ reports per site and production line.
CSRD export from measured data
Avoided CO₂, verified
The environmental gains of every optimization measure are metered and fully provable for your supply chain partners and customers.
Avoided CO₂, verified
Scope 2 emissions in real time
Track emissions per hour and per location—always ready for spontaneous audits and critical customer inquiries.
Scope 2, live
now · per site
Compliance isn't a stressful project—it's a natural by-product of the same monitoring that protects your cold chain.
Why Evogrid
Anyone can monitor. We automate the action.
Temperature monitoring is just the baseline. The real difference is what happens next: intelligent control, automated revenue, and a technician at your door exactly when needed.
From alarm to technician, automatically
A faltering unit instantly generates a targeted work order rather than a batch of ruined product. The right technician is dispatched with the right priority, well before the cold chain is compromised.
Thermal mass as a virtual battery
Your cold rooms act as energy buffers without requiring extra hardware. Pre-cool during cheap hours and coast on the thermal mass during peak pricing—100% food-safe and strictly within your margins.
Thousands of sites, one unified view
From a single processing plant to retail chains with over 12,000 stores: centrally monitor consumption, penalties, and cold chain integrity. Proven at massive scale.
Complementing your trading partner, not replacing them
Your battery can earn money on the energy markets while still serving your own operational needs. Evogrid stacks both value streams seamlessly so you never have to choose.
The solutions behind it
Built on the same building blocks as the rest of the platform.
How it works
Prove the concept, then build the solution.
Food-safe from day one. We follow a proven five-step process on every Evogrid site, ensuring active control only goes live once the strict guardrails are set.
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Business case & simulation
We build a digital twin of your facility using your actual consumption, assets, and contracts to prove the financial business case upfront.
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Implementation & data collection
Cooling systems, batteries, solar, and charging infrastructure are connected via Modbus, OCPP, and APIs—without ever interrupting production.
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Forecasting
Our AI predicts energy consumption, generation, and pricing with 97–99% accuracy—calculated per individual unit and per site.
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Optimization
A new control schedule is generated every 5 minutes: shifting cooling loads to cheaper hours and spreading out peaks, all while remaining safely within your strict temperature margins.
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Control, management & overview
The cold chain is fiercely protected: temperature margins are treated as hard limits, every deviation triggers an instant alarm, and you maintain complete oversight in one unified dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
The tough questions first, then the signature.
We understand that food safety is strictly non-negotiable. Here are the practical questions food producers ask us first.
Curious what this deliversfor your food production facility?
We model the solution using your own data to show the precise ROI upfront. The final decision is yours.