”Our business exists today, because of our investments in energy savings,” answers grower and owner of Gartneriet Skovbrynet, Jeppe Aavang, when asked about the outcome of his investments in controller technology from DGT by Senmatic. And the energy savings are significant: from 150,000 cubic meters district heating in the early 2000’s to less than 48,000 cubic meters in 2020.

The electronic climate control has already proven its effect.

“We have experienced massive energy savings. Although it’s difficult to directly compare two years, as factors such as weather come into play, our energy use is significantly reduced. In the early 2000’s we used 150,000 cubic meters district heating. In 2020 we used less than 48,000 cubic meters,” says Jeppe Aaavang.

The reduction is due to the automatic control of climate based on specific factors and p-values, which Jeppe Aavang has typed into the computer.

The same is the case for the average temperature throughout the day. The climate control then calculates how temperatures should rise and fall during the day – for instance, the temperature is automatically lowered at night.

Prior to installing the automatic climate control from DGT by Senmatic, the optimal values were also known. But knowledge on the plants’ minimum and maximum values and how these could actively be used to obtain energy savings were first approached when working with the automatic climate control, because the control can use these factors to act as smart as possible.

Gartneriet Skovbrynet did not have previous experience with electronic climate control. They did however know DGT by Senmatic and decided to examine the many possibilities in the LCC4 climate control. In addition, they participated in an introduction program, where instructions to the program was thoroughly covered.