utilize is the software layer between your battery storage, your power costs and the power exchange. Hardware-agnostic, fully automated and with no need to change your electricity supply contracts.
Spot price
0.000€/kWh
Trading result
+0€
Status
No trading signal
Who we serve
Industrial and commercial businesses and operators of renewable generation assets. Storage already in place or still planned, with or without generation of your own. We draw revenues out of what is standing on your site anyway.
Developers of battery storage or renewable generation assets, and electrical contractors. You plan and build, we supply the trading as a finished component of your offering.
You want to pool distributed storage across your own territory and offer flexibility to your customers. Our platform sits behind it, in the background on request.
Battery storage of 100 kW or more planned or already installed? Then arrange a slot for an initial consultation.
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Do you have a component that complements our solution? Then let us talk – the team behind utilize looks forward to the conversation.
The challenge
This is what we see most often:
Trading runs only through the system of one particular storage manufacturer.
You tie yourself for several years to a provider who dictates hardware and software as one package.
Many offerings only work with the trader's own supply contract.
The electricity prices you negotiated are suddenly back up for debate.
Trading happens on one sub-market only, further revenue streams stay unused.
Precisely the price peaks that make storage profitable pass you by.
What is offered is either green-power storage applications or flexibility trading, rarely both working together.
Unused applications mean unused potential, and with it a longer payback period.
This is exactly where we come in
We know these hurdles. utilize starts precisely there.
Market access
Take advantage of a pooled storage power plant: utilize flex VPP bundles distributed assets into a single market position, trades that position and breaks the result back down into schedules for every individual asset. Only through pooling does your storage reach the size it needs to be marketable, and therefore capable of earning revenues.
Assets in the pool
5
Pooled capacity
5.6 MW
Market presence
1 position
Distributed capacity is bundled into a single market position.
Your advantages with utilize
We supply the software for your battery storage - independent of the manufacturer.
Your energy supply contract stays exactly as it is. The trading comes on top.
We trade your power on day-ahead and intraday continuous, automated and optimised.
Alongside flexibility trading we implement green-power storage applications via an EMS. Additional revenues and saved power costs out of a single concept.
Balancing group, schedule management, market communication, prequalification and redispatch all run on our side. You need no in-house expertise for any of it.
Continuous optimisation, 24/7 monitoring, billing and a monthly revenue report. All of it visible at any time.
Roadmap
Your battery storage is already in place: we assess it, connect it and trade it.
01
Review of the performance parameters, the age of the battery storage, the grid connection capacity and the revenue forecast.
02
Offer and contracts for participation in the utilize Flex VPP.
03
Registration with the grid operator, installation of the remote control unit on site, function test.
04
Market entry, optimisation, monitoring, billing and revenue reporting.
01
Survey of the infrastructure, economic sizing and revenue forecast.
02
Offer covering battery storage, installation and trading.
03
Including certifications and connection to the utilize Flex platform.
04
Market entry, optimisation, monitoring, billing and revenue reporting.
Questions & answers
The subscription includes access to the utilize Flex VPP and with it the full trading of your storage flexibility on the day-ahead and intraday markets. It covers the connection to our platform, optimised scheduling and remote control of your storage, 24/7 monitoring, balancing group and settlement management, and quarterly billing with reporting on revenues and asset status. For the connection we provide a remote control unit on site. For connection, control and billing we are always your single point of contact.
What matters is the current utilisation of your grid connection: peak loads in your power draw as well as the contractually secured grid draw and feed-in capacity. A connection capacity of at least 170 kW is required. If you are connected to the medium-voltage grid via a transformer, its rating is also relevant. Once these requirements are met, we clarify the details in the initial consultation.
Yes. Our software works as a building block of its own, regardless of whether your storage is already in place or still being planned. For existing assets of 100 kW and above we review performance parameters, age and grid connection capacity and prepare a specific offer for participation in the utilize Flex VPP. If you are planning a new installation, get in touch as well: we will connect you with the right installation partner from our network.
The flexibility market pays companies for deliberately adjusting their consumption or their energy storage. That creates additional revenues and makes price volatility economically usable.
Intelligent control of assets and storage makes flexibility available, which is then traded on the power market. The volume of flexibility follows from the size of your grid connection. The revenues arise from market price signals and available capacity.
In principle no, as long as your company is located in Germany.
Control always takes place within clearly defined limits and priorities. Critical processes stay fully protected. We define comfort and safety parameters together with you and monitor them continuously.
As soon as we have your relevant data, we deliver a first assessment of potential, sizing and rough economics within two weeks. A full project from procuring the storage through to trading depends on lead times and the availability of installation partners; implementations so far have taken 4 to 6 months. If all you need is platform access, that is usually possible within 6 weeks, depending on the grid operator involved.
You receive monthly, fully traceable reports on trading, revenues and the status of your battery storage.
Your question is not among them? Write to us at contact@utilize.energy, we would be glad to hear from you personally.
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