Industry

Industrial flexibility as a key to competitiveness and sustainability

The industry is facing enormous challenges: Increasing protectionism, CO₂ reduction, volatile energy prices, high grid fees and ensuring security of supply. At the same time, competitiveness on a global level remains crucial. As a market-leading flexibility marketer, ESFORIN supports companies in overcoming these challenges!

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Individual grid fees in Germany: flexibility as the key to cost optimization from 2026

Throughout Europe, electricity flexibility is being sought in the expansion of renewables in order to facilitate integration. Germany has a very strong focus on renewables and therefore needs to expand its Adapt market rulesto promote flexibility. The Federal Network Agency is planning to realign the individual grid fees from 01.01.2026 in accordance with Section 19 StromNEV. A flexibility component is to be introduced in addition to the current band load criterion.

The Grid fee reduction is independent of the physical path to the nearest power plant and is intended to reward dynamic consumption behavior based on the price development of the day-ahead market. Companies should make greater use of electricity during periods of high feed-in from renewable energies - such as during a "light breeze" - and reduce consumption during periods of scarce capacity, such as during a "dark doldrums".

This market-oriented behavior not only leads to a reduction in grid charges, but also offers the opportunity for industrial consumption and generation flexibilities to benefit from the Price volatility of up to €185,000 per MW and trading direction per year on the short-term electricity market. At the same time, our algorithm-based flexibility marketing helps our customers to customers make a significant contribution to CO₂ reduction to perform.

Here you will find an example of our successful flexibility marketing:

One-stop store for your flexibility marketing

In addition to the Flexibility marketing ESFORIN offers solutions for holistic energy optimization. Whether the Integration of Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in your energy procurement, the Optimization of CHP systemsthe integration and control of renewable self-generation systems, the Minimization of balancing energy costs or the Marketing of control power - at ESFORIN you get everything from a single source.

We also support you in the verification process with certificates of origin and accompany you on the way from classic full supply to integrated balancing group optimization.

End-to-end platform bundles energy management

When it comes to energy procurement and management, industrial companies are under constant pressure to act flexibly and cost-efficiently. After the 2021/2022 gas crisis, securing new full supply contracts initially appeared to be a stable solution. However, these rigid constructs quickly reach their limits when companies take steps towards self-supply or flexibility marketing.

Even the integration of a PPA or a new rooftop PV system can entail considerable forecasting and automation requirements, which pose major challenges for some full-service suppliers. Beyond that, the questions remain:

How can industrial companies participate in the extreme prices on the intraday market?

How can an industrial company exploit all the value-added stages of short-term electricity trading from day-ahead to continuous intraday if all the flexibility is already booked in the balancing energy?

One-stop flexibility: flexibility marketing from a single source

Participation in intraday trading and the balancing energy market requires the consent of your supplier as well as a smooth, daily exchange of data between the parties involved. Why not simplify these complex processes?

ESFORIN offers you a End-to-end flexibility marketing - from balancing group management to optimization across all relevant markets, including intraday trading and balancing energy. With a single point of contact, you receive precise daily price forecasts, access to the most attractive markets - and benefit when exceptional price levels such as €9,999/MWh are reached on the exchange.

Example: Flexibility marketing of an electricity consumer

For example, an industrial customer regularly notifies us of 6 MW of flexibility for its production plant in both trading directions for certain quarter-hourly products in the intraday. This was also the case on day D for 8:15-8:30 a.m. Our individualized algorithms then traded the 6 MW on the intraday market of the electricity exchange from 4 p.m. on the day of the presentation (day D-1) within the plant-specific restrictions. During this period, over 30 trades were traded up to gate closure for a single product of this type. In the end, the customer did not have to follow his plant on this day. As a rule, only 30 % in our portfolio average of all customers were actually physically fulfilled, but were only able to reduce their energy costs by around € 225 in this quarter of an hour through trading transactions. At the same time, this system has made an active contribution to grid stability and indirect CO₂ savings.

Use battery storage in industry!

The expansion of battery storage systems is progressing in Europe. Falling cell prices are enabling more and more business cases. The spectrum ranges from household storage systems for optimizing self-consumption of PV systems to grid boosters operated by TSOs to increase the quality of supply.

There are also a number of use cases for the industry, a selection of which is listed below: optimizing the self-consumption of renewable energies in the customer system, peak load reduction or grid fee optimization towards an individual grid fee, increasing the quality of supply such as voltage maintenance, physical compensation of forecast errors of a completed PPA ("as produced profile"), the use of remaining free grid connection capacity to manage a stand-alone battery storage system on the trading and balancing energy markets, and much more.

Some of the use cases can also be combined, but this must be taken into account in the metering and measurement concept in coordination with the responsible connection grid operator and "jumping" between the marketing forms has not yet been approved by the regulator.

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