The future of energy is becoming decentralised, small scale and renewable. In other words, it is becoming more flexible. This in turn calls for more intelligent and flexible solutions. Innovative, customised flexibility products from VERBUND open up access to the energy market while also securing the power grid.
With VERBUND’s flexible marketing solutions, suppliers, industrial and service companies and green electricity producers gain active access to the short-term energy markets. Individual consumption and generation flexibilities and energy storage are marketed as optimised to need and additional revenue potential is leveraged. This also serves to stabilise the power grid while making a significant contribution to integrating renewable energy into the energy system.
Benefit from VERBUND’s in-depth expertise in optimising hydropower storage facilities, in marketing wind power and photovoltaic generation facilities, and as a trading partner in all energy markets.
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Combine our flexibility products with other VERBUND offers and services such as direct marketing, full supply, structured procurement, green electricity marketing and balancing group management.
With VERBUND’s marketing solutions, you get everything from a single source – customised, flexible and system-specific. Execution can be fully automated, from flexibility reporting, automated marketing and system control to transparent reporting. You decide the level of optimisation and automation that is right for your systems and in which markets they are marketed.
Our digital optimisation platform enables combined marketing through spot, intraday and balancing services markets, ensuring the most attractive added value for your flexibility. Flexibility marketing is handled fully automatically through VERBUND’s virtual energy system. This uses intelligent autotrading algorithms that take the individual plant operation’s constraints, such as heat supply obligations, storage limits and efficiency, into account.
Simply transmit your flexibilities via the central VERBUND customer platform VISION. We market your flexibilities on the energy markets according to the system technology and individual trading strategy. Our specially developed trading algorithms place your offers intelligently and take opportunities on all markets into account.
If there is a call for control power or a surcharge on the stock exchange, your systems receive the control signal sent directly via the pre-installed VERBUND remote control unit to the technical unit or your control room. Our standardised interfaces guarantee fast and uncomplicated system connection. This gives us an overview of all systems 24/7 and enables us to quickly respond to malfunctions.
Implementing the climate objectives and consistently expanding renewables also means continually placing new demands on market design and the organisation of the energy markets. VERBUND is always up to date and strives to make the best possible use of the resulting potential for all customer groups. Despite growing complexity in marketing, we make the process as transparent and easy as possible for you.
The massive expansion of renewables is increasingly causing fluctuations in the power grid. These pose major challenges for network management. Deviations from the forecast and actual generation must be compensated for at the last minute through power control. On the balancing services market, this imbalance of generation and consumption is balanced out with grid regulation, thus ensuring the stability of the power grid.
The VERBUND-Power Pool brings together a portfolio of industrial loads and producers, green electricity plants and storage facilities across all sectors. These flexibilities are used if there is a risk of instability in the grid. This is a challenge for grid operators, but for innovative companies it is an opportunity to test new markets and generate additional revenue.
Unlike in the balancing services market, in the intraday market price signals can be used to adjust flexible demand to volatile feed-in. In this case, energy is traded in products with a grid ranging from one hour to ¼ of an hour. Those flexible plants that do not fully qualify for the control power market can now also be marketed on the intraday market. This gives companies the opportunity to make their flexibilities available in the short term as well.
That facilitates market access for all those with smaller flexibilities and opens up new market access with additional revenue opportunities for those who already participate in the control power market.
VERBUND’s Volery optimisation platform optimises and controls plants such as battery storage systems and power-to-X systems in real-time. This allows a continual overview of complex additional conditions such as defined limits on the charging level or compliance with a continuous generation volume using buffer tanks. Volery can also be used for swarm optimisation and control. This enables the networked marketing of many small flexibility units.
It is also possible to link renewable generation with industrial flexibilities and storage. For example, Volery simultaneously ensures the optimal use of storage systems in the energy market and the reduction of network charges – customised, flexible and system-specific.
The VERBUND trading algorithms for optimising flexibility can also be used to optimise the schedule. Deviations in the intraday schedule triggered by fluctuations in renewable generation, deviations in the generation schedule or simply by a response to favourable prices in the market are dealt with fully automatically using smart trading algorithms. VERBUND offers the following models for this:
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Send us your enquiry about our flexibility solutions for plant operators, industrial companies, municipal utilities and energy suppliers. We look forward to getting in touch with you.
