Flexibility marketing – a key pillar of the energy transition

The solutions for a secure energy supply will be intelligent, digital and flexible. Securing the power supply is one of the big challenges on the way to the energy transition. VERBUND Power-Flex is the smart solution for the profitable use of energy, promises companies additional earnings and at the same contributes to stabilisation of the power grid.

The keep the power grid in balance, generation and consumption have to be compensated increasingly often. With intelligent, custom-tailored flexibility production, VERBUND Energy4Business shows how the energy transition can succeed. Suppliers, industrial and service companies as well as green electricity producers and energy storage operators benefit equally from access to the energy markets. They market needs-optimised individual consumption and generation flexibilities as well as storage facilities and raise additional earnings potential. 

Store, market and profit

The integration of battery storage facilities plays a central role in the conversion of the energy system. Innovative management concepts provide operators of battery storage systems with a whole range of ways to develop new business models. Apart from their classic application in the marketing of primary and secondary regulation or peak load smoothing for distribution grids, the generation value of photovoltaic and wind power plants can be increased in combination with battery stores. The supply of industrial consumers with own photovoltaic electricity can be increased via the optimised intermediate storage. The flexibilities can also be marketed on the increasingly important intraday market. 

Flexible, digital, fast

In contrast to the standard reserve market, flexible demand can be adapted to the volatile feed on the intraday market through price signals. The intraday optimisation is processed fully automatically via the VEB optimisation platform Volery. By linking optimisation algorithms with automated trading algorithms, the digital trading platform reacts to price changes on the market quickly and efficiently to secure the most attractive yields. This also dynamically takes into consideration individual boundary conditions of plant operation such as, for example, storage limits and efficiency levels.   

EE feed-in and battery storage – facility combination with a future

As a direct marketer in Germany, VERBUND offers marketing solutions or plans within and outside the EEG. By combining the creation of forecasts, trade on the electricity exchanges as well as connecting and operating battery storage facilities, we already have the necessary marketing solution for generating attractive additional revenues for our customers from plant combinations in line with the call for innovation.

“The consistent expansion of renewable energies is accompanied by constantly new requirements for market design and the organisation of the energy markets. We are always up-to-date and make new potentials accessible to our customers. To this end, we constantly analyse the markets and processes. We provide a wide range of ways to access the market and identify the most lucrative marketing strategy for each company. All players benefit from VERBUND know-how in the energy sector,” says Martin Wagner, Managing Director of VERBUND Energy4Business GmbH.