For architects
The argument that decides competitions.
Energy you do not see. Architecture you remember.
Dezentrale Multi-Energie-Systeme // DMES
Energy concepts decide competitions.
Sustainability has long been a hard assessment criterion, in competitions as in direct commissions. SNBS, Minergie-Areal and the CO2 emissions reduction pathway demand answers that go beyond the building envelope. The reference work “Areale und Quartiere” (ed. Gugerli, 2024) records that battery stores serve day-night balancing, while hydrogen can be stored over long periods and serves seasonal energy storage. The winter electricity gap calls for exactly this answer. At the same time, the usual solutions interfere with the design. Battery containers need space outdoors and cause noise and objections. Whoever can offer more here than their competitors wins.
Architecture that stores its own energy.
A DMES is the only large-scale store that is allowed into an occupied building. Quiet and compact like a plant room, without a container in the site concept and without a noise barrier. The building stores its summer electricity as hydrogen in metal hydride and gives it back in winter as electricity and heat. The roof areas gain a purpose with PV, and the energy infrastructure disappears from view. No water tank that the building has to be built around. Because the heat sits in the molecule, the DMES is at the same time the most compact thermal store. The design also gains an argument that adds up. The DMES turns the building into a revenue system with which your client earns money. We take complexity out and bring returns in.
Summer // surplus
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Photovoltaics
Own production on the roof
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Electrolysis
Electricity becomes hydrogen and heat
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H₂ in metal hydride
Solid state at 35 bar, inside the building
Winter // demand
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Fuel cell
Hydrogen becomes electricity and heat
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Electricity
Site, vZEV and LEG, grid
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Heat
Heating, hot water, heat network
over 75 % overall efficiency with combined electricity and heat use · over 30 years service life · 0.5 to 16 MWh per room · modularly scalable to over 100 MWh
The figures behind it.
Inside the building
No container in the outdoor space. Integrated like a plant room. 0.5 to 16 MWh per room, quiet and capable of approval.
SVGW H10001
Your planning basis. The guidance note for building-integrated H₂ systems is the reference for SIA-compliant planning, co-developed by eRevo.
30+ years
Service life. Infrastructure conceived within the life cycle of the building.
1000 t CO2
Emissions reduction pathway measurably met. Year after year. From around 1000 tonnes of CO2 per year, state funding instruments open up.
Under 10 years
Payback possible, under ideal conditions.
> 75 %
Overall efficiency. With coupled use of electricity and heat.
Your clients trust your foresight. Give them one more reason.
Long-duration storage is becoming the standard. Buildings you design today will stand for 50 years and longer, and over that period it will be a matter of course. The recommendation is best coming from you. It extends the project volume by the energy centre and spares your client a retrofit that will cost more than any forward-looking planning.
You keep the lead.
No extra effort, no new discipline.
System architecture, dimensioning and integration planning come from eRevo, as does the coordination of the specialist planners. You do not have to become an energy expert, you open the door.
Seamless within the SIA phase model.
We work in your phases, from the preliminary study to realisation, with clear interfaces to HVAC, electrical, fire protection and conformity. Where the client wants design-build, we can do that too. You choose the model, we fit in.
Proven in real operation.
The plant in Eich LU has been running at full load since April 2024. Studies and mandates with Halter, Integral Design Build and the Canton of Lucerne. Realised by the pioneer of decentralised multi energy systems in Europe, eRevo AG Energy Revolution.
The next step
Potential analysis
One month, one location, one robust answer for your client. We supply the basis, you lead the conversation. The potential analysis fits into any SIA phase, most effectively in the preliminary study.