AC Grid

Comparison of Energy Supply Architectures

Conventional AC Grid Architecture

• Unidirectional flow of energy from power plant to consumer (producer-consumer architecture).
• Nearly every electrical device needs a rectifier or a provided rectified voltage.
• Recuperative energy mostly not used and is lost in local braking resistors.

Industrial Smart DC Grid Architecture

• Open energy flow between all devices (prosumer architecture).
• No losses in additional rectifiers of devices.
• Almost complete reuse of recuperative energy within the DC grid.
• Easy integration of energy storage and decentralised renewable energy sources.