Use case · Peak and grid capacity · Flanders

Lower your peak. Keep room to grow.

In Flanders, part of your grid cost is set by your monthly peak, and in congestion zones a new or heavier connection may only come as a flexible one. We measure which loads set your peak, show what it costs you, and help you lower it and be ready to cut load when the grid asks.

  • Flemish manufacturers
  • Capacity tariff
  • Flexible connection
  • 30-day scan
  • Monthly follow-up
The situation

The connection has become the limit

  • The peak is on your bill. Fluvius charges part of the grid cost on your monthly peak, every month.
  • Congestion zones. Around 800 companies in Flanders are waiting for a connection where the grid is full.
  • Flexible means: cut on request. With a Fall-Back Flex connection you get full power, but must reduce load when Fluvius asks.
  • Nobody knows what sets the peak. Start-ups, compressors and large loads coincide unseen.
The outcome

Know your peak, then manage it

  • Your peak profile, for the site and for each large load.
  • What each kW costs on your own tariff, month by month.
  • Which loads can shift or drop, so a flexible connection does not stop production.
  • The top three actions, with a euro estimate, and the peak followed month by month afterwards.
Where the data comes from

This runs on measured data. There are three ways to get it, and only the third involves buying anything from us.

  1. 01

    Data you already have

    A historian, SCADA, submeters, your own exports — often more than people expect.

  2. 02

    Data from a supplier

    Your machine builder's, your energy supplier's, your grid operator's.

  3. 03

    Sensin Via

    When neither exists, we install the measurement and run it as a service.

How it is built

Clamp-on measurement, combined with your grid data

  1. Your site
    • Main connection
    • CNC machines
    • Compressors
    • Large loads
  2. Via Gateway
    • Collect · buffer
    • Own 4G
    • Remotely managed
  3. Sensin cloud
    • Peak profile
    • Headroom
    • Load shifts
  4. Peak report
    • Dashboard
Company IT network

Not used

Combined in the platform with your quarter-hour data from Fluvius, with your consent. Nothing passes through your network.

Where the room can come from

Staggered start-ups

Machines and compressors that no longer all start at once.

Shifted flexible loads

Batches, charging and heating moved out of the peak.

Less standby

Loads that run for nothing at night and at weekends.

How it runs

From first call to a managed peak

  1. 01

    Scoping call

    Free, 30 minutes. Is there a capacity problem worth measuring?

  2. 02

    Grid data first

    Quarter-hour data from your Fluvius meter. No panel work yet.

  3. 03

    Measure 30 days

    Meters on the main connection and the largest loads, installed de-energised.

  4. 04

    Peak report

    Profile, coinciding loads, headroom and the top three actions.

  5. 05

    Follow up

    Monthly figures to keep the peak where you want it.

The offer

A scan first, then a subscription

01

Peak Scan

One-off, fixed fee.

  • 30 days of measurement
  • Installed and removed by us
  • Peak report with the top three actions
  • Fee credited when you subscribe
02

Peak monitoring

Per measuring point, per month.

  • Measurement, 4G and platform as one service
  • Monthly peak and headroom report
  • Remote management and updates
03

Extensions

Added when you need them.

  • Utilisation and OEE per machine
  • Standby and energy waste
  • Energy data for customer reporting
Who it is for
  • Flemish manufacturers with 20–200 people and large electrical loads.
  • Companies waiting for capacity, or offered a flexible connection.
  • Sites with large loads that start together: machines, compressors, furnaces.
Experience

All operational data from five offshore energy installations, built in six months in a highly regulated NIS2 environment.

Built from
Measurement
Sensin Via Machine Monitoring, energy module
Connectivity
Sensin Via Gateway with its own 4G
Grid data
Quarter-hour data from Fluvius
Platform
Sensin cloud: peak profile, headroom, reports
What we need from you

Grid data access

Consent to read your quarter-hour data from Fluvius.

One install window

A short, planned moment to work de-energised on the main panel.

Your large loads

A list of the machines and equipment that draw the most power.

Find out how much room you really have.

Start with a free 30-minute call. Bring your last grid invoice if you have it at hand.

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Return on investment

Your business case. Our expertise, run as a service.

You know where your business is going. What you buy from us is not a box of hardware, but the expertise and the tools to make the measurement work for that business case, and to keep it running month after month.

What you bring
  • The business case: the machine you want to add, the line you want to grow.
  • Knowledge of your site: shifts, processes, which loads can move.
  • The decisions: what to shift, when, and what to invest in.
What we bring
  • The expertise to measure the right points and read what the figures mean.
  • The tools: gateway, connectivity, platform and reports, ready to go.
  • The service: installed, managed and followed up, so it keeps working.
Worked example · how the figures are calculated

A machine shop with 15 CNC machines on two shifts, about 80 production hours a week, on a Fluvius Imewo medium-voltage connection (monthly peak €4.52 per kW per month). Energy at €0.20 per kWh.

1 · Lower monthly peak
Peak reductionmachines and compressors no longer start all at once40 kW
Value per year40 kW × €4.52 per kW per month × 12 months€2,169
2 · Less standby
Standby power15 machines × 2 kW while switched on but not cutting (control, hydraulics, pumps)30 kW
Standby energy per year30 kW × 40 hours a week (of the 88 outside production) × 52 weeks62,400 kWh
Saved by halving it62,400 kWh ÷ 2, through switch-off rules and automatic shutdown31,200 kWh
Value per year31,200 kWh × €0.20 per kWh€6,240
Total per year€2,169 + €6,240 = €8,409≈ €8,400
Why the peak matters more in Flanders
40 kW
headroom freed in the example, without a heavier connection
±800
companies waiting for a connection in Flemish congestion zones
€49–57
per kW per year: Fluvius capacity tariff on the average monthly peak, low voltage, 2026
Your investment
Peak Scan
[fixed fee], credited on subscription
Peak monitoring
[€ per measuring point per month]
Your payback

In the scan we measure your real peak and standby, and calculate the value and the payback with your own tariffs and prices.

Sources: Vlaamse Nutsregulator tariff lists 2026 per Fluvius area, excl. VAT: capacity tariff for low-voltage customers with peak metering €49.05–57.10 per kW per year on the average monthly peak (energiehulp.be, Oct. 2026); Fluvius Imewo medium voltage 1–26 kV monthly peak €4.5191 per kW per month (smart-save.be, Imewo tariff list 2026). Fluvius and Elia, 24 April 2026: nearly 800 companies waiting for a connection in congestion zones; Fall-Back Flex gives full power with a duty to reduce on request. Tariffs differ per Fluvius area. The worked example is illustrative: in the scan, we replace every assumption with your measured figures.

Reflection

If your connection has headroom and you are not in a congestion zone, there is little to win: the capacity tariff only bites on a peak you are actually setting. Measure before you believe a supplier who says otherwise, including us.