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Context

Rozen Scheers is a three-hectare nursery fully dedicated to premium cut roses. Producing high-quality roses year-round requires a huge amount of energy: from lighting and heating to climate control and irrigation.

As energy prices became increasingly volatile, energy management evolved from an operational task into a strategic priority. At the same time, growing pressure to reduce fossil fuel consumption accelerated the need for electrification and smarter energy use.

To stay competitive and future-ready, Rozen Scheers invested heavily in sustainable infrastructure: floating solar panels, battery storage, electric boilers, and combined heat and power systems.

The challenge was no longer generating energy. It was managing all these systems together in the most intelligent and profitable way possible.

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Challenge

With multiple energy assets operating simultaneously, the nursery faced a growing level of complexity.

When should electricity be stored or consumed?
When is it more profitable to use battery power instead of grid power?
How can heating, lighting, and energy production work together without waste?
And how can the business reduce fossil fuel dependency without compromising production quality?

Without a centralized system, optimizing these decisions in real time becomes nearly impossible. Especially in an energy-intensive environment where margins are directly impacted by energy costs.

Rozen Scheers needed more than individual technologies. They needed one intelligent system capable of orchestrating the entire energy ecosystem.

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Our Solution

Companion.energy connected all energy assets into one smart control platform.

Solar production, battery storage, electric heating, and combined heat and power systems now work together as a single integrated ecosystem. The platform continuously analyzes energy flows and automatically decides where and when energy should be generated, stored, or consumed.

This allows Rozen Scheers to:

• Optimize self-consumption of renewable energy
• Reduce dependence on fossil fuels
• Lower operational energy costs
• Respond intelligently to changing energy prices
• Accelerate the transition toward full electrification

What used to require constant manual intervention is now managed through intelligent automation and real-time optimization.

The result is a more resilient, efficient, and future-proof nursery where technology and sustainability work together behind every rose delivered to market.