Industry-leading software for electricity market integration of flexible assets

Situation: Electricity suppliers and municipal utilities know that simply selling kilowatt hours no longer meets the requirements of the modern world characterized by the energy transition. Dynamic electricity prices reflect the reality of an energy system with a high proportion of renewable electricity generation and offer considerable advantages, especially when they are applied to flexibly controllable systems. The “flexumer” customer group with charging stations, electric vehicles, heat pumps and battery storage systems is growing rapidly.

Our offer: The “InnoCharge Flex Optimization Platform” enables electricity suppliers and municipal utilities to optimally market small-scale flexibility in the private and commercial sector. The forecast-based 360° optimization brings flexibility to spot and balancing power markets while simultaneously taking into account the situation in the customer’s system. A particular advantage of the platform is the scalable manufacturer-independence of flex assets, HEMS, portal and app systems. It is modular and can be easily integrated into existing IT infrastructures and processes at electricity suppliers and municipal utilities.

Situation: There are systems and platforms for the management of decentralized flex systems. In particular, providers of backends for charging stations (“Charging Station Management Systems”) manage charging points and providers of home energy management systems (“Home Energy Management Systems”) also manage other energy systems. These systems are often already optimized according to local incentives, also known as flex optimization “1.0”. Forecast-based optimization going beyond this on the basis of several parallel incentives from the market, grid and customer’s premises requires very specific and in-depth specialist knowledge.

Our offering: The “InnoCharge Flex Optimization Platform” provides the intelligence required for optimization and enables system and platform providers to quickly bring their offering into the smart grid era. Our forecast-based 360° optimization “2.0” takes into account market and grid signals as well as the situation in the customer’s premises. Depending on the level of integration, we offer two-way communication with the energy supplier for optimized electricity procurement and the commercialization of the flexibility. This brings speed, considerable cost savings and the competitive advantages needed now.

Situation: Electric vehicles are particularly interesting for flex optimization, as the mobile battery storage units in the non-public sector regularly stand at the charging station significantly longer than they actually need to charge. Charge point operators run charging points and offer their customers charging power – whether for their own vehicle fleet, external tenants or public roaming customers. The cheaper their electricity procurement and grid usage costs, the higher their profit.

Our offer: The “InnoCharge Flex Optimization Platform” enables charging point and fleet operators to significantly reduce procurement and grid usage costs, for example through the intelligent use of local photovoltaic power. To this end, our manufacturer-independent 360° optimization “2.0” is seamlessly docked onto existing systems via standardized interfaces.