Top 10: Industrial Energy Management Systems
Industrial energy management systems are crucial in helping industries operate more efficiently, reduce costs, comply with environmental regulations and minimise the impact on the planet.
Enhancing energy management can allow companies to improve productivity, enhance brand reputation and increase market competitiveness.
The release of smart monitoring now allows companies to identify cost inefficiencies before it becomes a problem and the integration of AI has the potential to even further monitor and predict energy usage.
Energy Digital has ranked the top 10 companies providing industrial energy management systems.
10. Cisco Systems
CEO: Chuck Robbins
Headquarters: California, United States
Founded: 1984
Cisco says that its energy management suite delivers 100% the energy use of every device connected to a network.
The system is designed to help cut energy costs by 35% to motivate customers to adjust power to actual demands and implement best practices for energy management across an enterprise.
It can immediately identify inefficient systems, configurations and operational practices, optimising energy use.
Through the technology, customers can gain insights into energy consumption and improve capacity management using real time analytics.
Cisco says: “The Cisco Energy Management Suite delivers everything you need to get the most out of your IT infrastructure, while reducing total cost of ownership.”
9. Rockwell Automation
CEO: Blake Moret
Headquarters: Wisconsin, United States
Founded: 1903
Rockwell Automations provide energy intelligence for manufacturers to help customers get more value from energy data, allowing for more valuable and relevant decisions to be made on critical energy consumption.
The company says its technology, solutions and industrial energy management professionals will help streamline processes like improving energy use per unit of production output, lower production risk, speed up time to market and reduce costs that are associated with maintaining quality compliance.
Ferdi Aksoy, Senior Director, Asia Pacific Operations, Rockwell Automations says: “Manufacturers today face increasing pressure to balance production efficiency with sustainability goals.
“However, many industrial facilities lack the necessary digital tools to analyse energy consumption, predict inefficiencies, and implement corrective measures.
“Our facility in Singapore aimed to bridge this gap by developing a scalable strategy that could drive tangible energy savings while supporting long-term decarbonisation efforts.”
8. Veolia
CEO: Estelle Brachlianoff
Headquarters: Aubervilliers, France
Founded: 1853
Veolia is a key player in energy management with expertise in energy efficiency, heating and cooling network management and renewable energy production.
The company supports industrial utilities by meeting reliability, quality, availability and cost demands from customers.
The group says it optimises energy use in industrial utilities in areas like steam generation, cooling, electricity and compressed air.
It provides services such as building management systems to ensure that energy is saved in new builds, refurbishments and systems upgrades.
Veolia says: “With our BMS and controls solutions, your facilities team can take back control and optimise your building’s energy use. That means you can save on energy and costs, while improving the efficiency and carbon footprint of your operations”
7. Emerson Electric
CEO: Lal Karsanbhai
Headquarters: Missouri, United States
Founded: 1890
Emerson Energy Manager solution says it monitors energy consumption of assets in real time, enabling customers to gain deeper insight into the cost of energy intensive assets like machines, across several production lines.
The technology is paired with an energy manager app that is pre-installed on the Edge hardware, allowing an easy set up to collect data from any connected energy metres.
The real time dashboard attached provides real-time information on energy demand, consumption, associated costs and CO₂ emissions.
Eugenio Silva, Intelligent Automation Product Manager at Emerson says: “Our new Energy Manager solution gives operators, facility managers and corporate sustainability teams greater visibility and deeper understanding of energy consumption and operating costs at all times.
“This can better position companies to track and reach targets, comply with regulations and reliably reduce environmental impact.”
6. GE Vernova
CEO: Scott Strazik
Headquarters: Massachusetts, United States
Founded: 2024
GE Vernova's project GridOS provides modern software tools to control the complexity of the sustainable energy grid.
The software helps utilities operate the electric grid through disruptive events like storms and wildfires.
The company has expanded its software to utilise the powers of AI, it reports that the expansion has resulted in 21% less grid outages, a 17% increase in faster restoration times, 70% of more renewable penetration and a 40% reduction in inertia management costs.
Scott Reese, CEO of GE Vernova’s Electrification Software business, said: “We are excited to increase our investment in a critical element of our GridOS offering.
“Together with the Alteia team, whose expertise will help to advance our AI- and data-centric vision for GridOS, GE Vernova will be able to solve critical pain points that our utility customers face.”
5. Johnson Controls
CEO: Joakim Weidemanis
Headquarters: Wisconsin, United States
Founded: 1885
Johnson Controls has created a building automation system, Metasys, with the aim to create energy efficiency in modern building management.
The technology will connect commercial HVAC, lighting, security and protection systems, allowing customers to manage data and operate their property as a smart building.
The technology can be tailored to operational demands and can cater to multi-facility management.
It says the tech can be implemented in various industry sectors such as hospitals, data centres, commercial and custodial.
4. ABB
CEO: Morten Wierod
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland
Founded: 1988
ABB says that it provides energy management solutions so customers can get the complete picture of the status and performance of electrical systems, allowing them to make informed decisions to optimise energy consumption.
In 2021 ABB developed a custom power management scheme for one of Asia’s largest wastewater treatment plants, helping to ensure ongoing operations and prevent downtime during facility upgrades.
ABB also provides digital energy management and power systems to guarantee reliable uptime, improve energy efficiency and sustainability at OPPO, one of China’s largest manufacturers of mobile devices.
3. Honeywell
CEO: Vimal Kapur
Headquarter: North Carolina, US
Founded: 1927
Honeywell offers various tools for energy management systems such as advanced grid technologies, distribution grid operations and distributed energy resource integrations.
The company’s Honeywell Forge Performance+ for utilities, uses performance management and predictive analytics software to bring valuable visibility.
Honeywell says that the technology reduces carbon footprint, identifies dispatchable loads, transforms points into localised virtual power plants and helps balance loads on distribution systems.
Kevin Dehoff, Chief Strategy Officer at Honeywell says: "We are proud to launch our cloud-native Asset Performance solution that will bring scalable and more secure advanced asset health monitoring, predictive analytics and process optimisation to help organisations operate more efficiently.
"We are also introducing several enhancements to our current software offerings across the industrials and smart buildings sectors that help enterprises run key processes more productively, while also giving them greater visibility into how they can lower their operational costs."
2. Schneider Electric
CEO: Olivier Blum
Headquarters: Paris, France
Founded: 1836
Schneider Electric has many innovations in the energy management sector.
A recent technology created by the company is Caneco ONE, a software suite created to support electrical engineering to design power distribution networks.
The software is designed to operate and test electrical installations, the company says it is used to increase productivity. Generate digital deliverables and allow customers to update installations easily.
Alongside this tech, Schneider Electric has created EcoStruxure which it says enables smart and more sustainable buildings and industries as it is designed to integrate operational technology with information technology.
EcoStruxure enhances energy efficiency by linking various things from cloud systems to sensors and gathering real time data to provide action insights.
Kevin Brown, Senior Vice President of EcoStruxure IT, Schneider Electric, says: “At Schneider Electric, we recognise that sustainability is a journey, and for the last three years, we’ve increased our investment to develop new software features that make it faster and simpler for our customers to operate resilient, secure and sustainable IT infrastructure.
“The new reporting capabilities included with EcoStruxure IT have been tested and adopted by our own organisation, and will allow customers to turn complex data into meaningful information, and report on key sustainability metrics.”
1. Siemens
CEO: Roland Busch
Headquarters: Munich, Germany
Founded: 1847
Siemens has created several tools to improve industrial energy management systems.
One of the most recent innovations is its Smart Infrastructure development, Electrification X technology that combines real and digital worlds to tackle the challenges of the energy transition.
The technology helps renewable energy operators, transmission system operators, distributed systems operators, data centres, industries & infrastructure customers to manage energy networks.
The company says that its tech can increase uptime, improve reliability, asset utilisation, cybersecurity and energy efficiency with the end goal of reaching net zero.
Matthias Rebellius, Managing Board Member of Siemens AG and CEO of Smart Infrastructure says: “Our vision is to make our world more sustainable by driving the electrification of everything.
“Digitalisation sits at the heart of enabling that vision and with the addition of Electrification X to the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, we are making it easier than ever before for companies to digitally transform their electrification infrastructure, faster and at scale.”
