Flexibility Trading
Reduce costs and save CO2 with flexibility marketing
Renewable energy presents both opportunities and challenges: Its volatility leads to price fluctuations and strain on the grid. The solution? Flexibility! Controllable loads and generation, combined with fully automated flexibility trading, are the key to stable grids, lower costs, and a successful energy transition.
Marketing Flexibility as a Key Factor
Fully Automated Flexibility Trading
from intraday to balancing energy
European energy markets are undergoing dynamic changes in 2024 and 2025: from volatile market phases with negative and extremely high prices to regulatory changesin Germany, for example, by the Federal Network Agency with Redispatch 2.0. Countries such as France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Sweden are experiencing similar processes.
Set parallel Trends such as self-generated electricity and ‚all-electric‘ unlock new economic potential—for example, through a fuel switch Switching gas heaters to electric heating and power-to-heat plants or electrolysis facilities under the new conditions of the EU's revised Renewable Energy Directive in the intraday market or as balancing energy.
For companies, flexibility usually begins with questioning the status quo. Which processes or plant components could be used differently than today and under what conditions? This subsequently has a lasting impact on energy purchasing: changing price patterns on the market, options such as PPAs or investments in new plant technology must be coordinated. With over 10 years of experience and 2.5 GW of flexibility With ESFORIN at the helm, we are your partner in developing the best strategies for the electricity and natural gas markets—across Europe.
Save Costs Through Flexibility Trading
As part of our flexibility marketing, we offer fully automated intraday and balancing energy marketing with customer-specific programmed algorithms. This enables our customers to make optimum use of price signals from volatile electricity markets. In particular, the trading lead time is crucial - with ESFORIN you can trade up to Gate Closure and thus achieve maximum returns from your flexibility. Around 25% of profits are generated in the last 25 minutes of trading and around 60% in the last 90 minutes!
Learn more now from our experts in flexibility marketing!
Lead time is crucial for gross profit!
Flexibility means more than just responding to short-term price fluctuations—it actively contributes to grid stability. The benefits are numerous:
- The company benefit from optimized energy costs.
- End consumer enjoy a stable and reliable power supply.
- The Environment is relieved by the integration of renewables and reduced emissions.
As a leading service provider in flexibility trading for electricity and natural gas, ESFORIN serves as the interface between plant operators and the electricity market. Our algorithms respond in real time to maximize the full potential of your flexibility—for a green and economically viable energy transition.
Flexibility Trading: Experience with Over 20 Types of Facilities at ESFORIN
Benefits of ESFORIN's Flexibility Marketing:
- Flexibility in Degree of automation Your flexibility marketing.
- Transparency in the Individual trade certificate and traceability of control energy provision and activation.
- Get an at-a-glance view of your flexibility marketing at any time on our customer portal.
- Individual marketing with customized algorithms, perfectly tailored to your flexibility.
- The marketing best suited to the system: trading market or intraday and balancing energy from a single source.
- Revenue of up to 185,000 € per MW/a possible for complex systems and up to 300,000 € per MW/a for battery energy storage systems (reference year 2024, 90% RTE, 2-hour BESS in Germany, max. 2 cycles/day).
- Intraday trading can be implemented without a time-consuming prequalification process.
- Flexibility trading is independent of the current energy supplier.
- TÜV Rheinland Certification for Your CO₂ Savings made possible by our flexible marketing approach.
