Food industry

How food companies
are already cutting
their electricity costs

FION combines industrial batteries with intelligent control to cut typical load peaks precisely and generate additional revenue.

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Our promise

What food companies achieve with us on average

22.7%
Lower total electricity costs (incl. grid fees)
2.6–4.7 years
Payback when combining economic levers
24.6%
Lower load peaks
Case study

Bernard Matthews Oldenburg GmbH

How a mid-sized food company in Lower Saxony benefits from a battery.

Industry:
Food industry, poultry processing
Starting point:
Load peaks of up to 1,174 kW
Power purchasing:
Tranche-based procurement
Battery:
184 kW / 180 kWh
01 Starting point

High load peaks & high grid fees

  • Load peaks of up to 1,174 kW
  • High grid fees
  • Not eligible for atypical grid usage (§ 19(2) StromNEV)
02 Solution

A battery sized for the site

  • 184 kW / 180 kWh battery
  • Intelligent control in place:
    • Load peaks shaved & eligibility for atypical grid usage secured
    • Additional revenue from arbitrage
03 Result

Measurable economic impact

  • Around €34,300 in annual savings
    • Of which up to €27,900 from lower grid fees
  • Payback in under 3.5 years

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€34,300
Annual savings
-27%
Lower load peaks
< 3.5 yrs
Payback period
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Solution

How we deliver battery projects in food plants

FION battery on the roof of a food plant

We look at when load peaks occur: shift changes, tool changes, machines starting up at the same time, cooling in summer.

Not to a standard size, but matched to your load peaks, cycle times and the machinery you actually run.

The battery shaves load peaks and optimises solar use and power purchasing in the background, without production or maintenance staff having to step in.

When the battery is not needed for peak shaving, it automatically turns price swings on the power market into profit.

Industry insights

Why batteries pay off particularly well in the food industry

In food plants, costly power peaks arise from typical everyday situations:

Machines starting up at a shift change in a food plant
Shift changes with machines starting up at the same time
Cold and frozen storage with transport crates
Energy-intensive refrigeration and freezer systems starting up together
Cleaning a production line in a food plant
Energy-intensive cleaning cycles such as CIP, hot water and steam
Filling and packaging line with compressed air and conveyor systems
Compressed air, conveyor and packaging systems with highly variable loads

In the food industry, it is not just the kWh that counts. The kW peak matters too.

These are exactly the situations that make batteries economically worthwhile, and that is precisely where we come in.

More case studies

FION’s solutions work in other industries too

Autenrieth
Kunststofftechnik
Plastics industry
Payback: < 4.5 years
Delivered by FION:
  • Peak shaving
  • Arbitrage trading
  • Spot procurement optimisation

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Allfrisch Gruppe
Food industry
Payback: < 3.9 years
Delivered by FION:
  • Peak shaving
  • Arbitrage trading

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The principle works wherever equipment runs in cycles and load peaks occur.
Food plants are among the most economically attractive use cases.
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