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Municipal utilities as smart energy suppliers and drivers of the municipal energy transition

Municipal utilities have to master the major challenges of the energy transition, such as integrating renewable energies, providing dynamic tariffs and ensuring a stable energy supply. Our modular services help to market electricity flexibility profitably and support grid stability - without the need to physically activate the systems.

Municipal energy industry in the transformation process

The energy industry is in the midst of a transformation process. In the course of the energy transition with growing decentralized energy sources, municipal utilities and regional suppliers in particular must ensure security of supply and grid stability - electricity, gas and heat must be available and sustainable at all times. At the same time, municipal utilities have a role model function for their local authorities. They contribute to the success of the energy transition and thus ensure that the CO₂ reduction targets are achieved.

Municipal utilities on the intraday market: seizing opportunities, achieving targets

The Intraday trading on the electricity exchange offers municipal utilities enormous potential to achieve key goals such as the energy transition, CO₂ reduction and security of supply. Flexible market behaviour makes it possible to optimize the energy supply with renewable electricity, as the intraday price reflects its availability (e.g. if there is a lot of wind or sunshine, prices fall).

In order to use conventional power plants efficiently and at the same time enable the integration of renewable energies, municipal utilities should make targeted use of available electricity flexibilities.

Our Flexibility marketing reacts to the volatility Volatility refers to the price jumps on the intraday market on the intraday in order to market available electricity flexibility profitably. If required, this flexibility can be fully automated with the help of our Remote Work can be called up and tracked - which can be seamlessly integrated into your existing infrastructure.

On average, 30% of the trading activities realized in our portfolio result in a <strong>actual physical fulfillment</strong> and thus to a change in the originally planned system deployment. This value can be flexibly adjusted upwards or downwards as part of your individual marketing strategy. The result is real added value for municipal utilities and their local authorities: energy costs are optimized, grid stability is supported and CO₂ reduction is promoted.

Here you can find an example of our successful flexibility marketing

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Municipal utility case study: Successful marketing of flexibility on the intraday market

A municipal utility customer reported 5 MW of positive flexibility from its gas turbine for an average day for the period 5:00 to 5:15 (day D). Our marketing algorithms, which were specially programmed for the plant, began trading this flexibility on the intraday market of the electricity exchange within the plant-specific restrictions from 4 p.m. on the previous day (day D-1). During this period, more than 28 trades were executed up to gate closure for a single product by opening and profitably closing positions. everything fully automatic. Our municipal utility did not have to activate the flexibility of its gas turbine for this trading business. In our portfolio, actual physical fulfillment only occurs in an average of 30 % of cases. As a result, our customer generated a purely financial profit of around EUR 220 with the help of its flexibility - for this single (!) quarter of an hour and without physical activation of the system.

Example of e-boiler marketing for municipal utilities: Electric heat for district and local heating networks.

In municipal utilities, the e-boiler plays a similar role to that in industry, but is usually integrated into a district or local heating network. In summer, it uses low or even negative electricity prices resulting from high PV feed-in to provide climate-friendly and cost-effective heat. In the cold season, boilers or gas-fired power plants ensure reliable heat generation. This combination enables a flexible and efficient heat supply: municipal utilities can convert renewable electricity into heat and thus optimally combine decarbonization and security of supply.

Modular energy services for municipal utilities

The profit potential for flexible electricity producers and consumers (e.g. power-to-heat) is expected to increase significantly in the future. The electricity exchange is becoming increasingly volatile and trading volumes are growing, as more and more renewable energies are being fed in as volatile generators. This leads to ever wider price spreads in continuous intraday trading - regardless of external crises or energy shortages. We also offer modular energy services that can be seamlessly integrated into the existing infrastructure of our municipal utility customers. As a service provider, we also offer a Balancing group & portfolio management to. On behalf of our customers, we manage their balancing groups and offer access to the short-term markets of the electricity exchanges. We can also Redispatch 2.0 services for our customers, as a pure IT service or as part of direct marketing.

What about heating obligations and individual restrictions?

We market the flexibility of our customers individually. This means that each of our customers' systems receives a customer-specific programmed algorithm that is based on your specifications and your experience with the system type and at the same time takes any restrictions into account. For example, heat obligations are automatically taken into account in the marketing strategy. As a result, we can demonstrate the successful flexibility marketing of over 20 plant types, such as various CHP plants, CHP plants, gas turbines, gas engines, steam turbines and many more.

Intraday and/or balancing energy marketing?

Our experience shows: Marketing on the intraday market achieves the following for most flexibility potential per year higher yields than balancing energy. Due to the continuous expansion of renewable energies, market volatility continues to increase - and with it the earnings potential. In addition, no prequalification is required for the intraday market, which makes access much easier. Nevertheless, intraday marketing is not an exclusion criterion for balancing energy marketing; they can coexist and be marketed alternately or in combination. The ban on double marketing is strictly observed. With our Cross-market approach we combine the advantages of both markets (intraday and balancing energy). The result: on average 30 % higher yields compared to marketing in a single market and therefore real added value for your flexibility.

Municipal utilities as smart energy suppliers and drivers of the municipal energy transition

Municipal energy industry in the transformation process

Municipal utilities on the intraday market: seizing opportunities, achieving targets

Here you can find an example of our successful flexibility marketing

Find out more from our experts for digital energy services now!

Municipal utility case study: Successful marketing of flexibility on the intraday market

Example of e-boiler marketing for municipal utilities: Electric heat for district and local heating networks.

Modular energy services for municipal utilities

What about heating obligations and individual restrictions?

Intraday and/or balancing energy marketing?

Christian Irion

Senior Sales Manager

Alex Schwabbauer

Business Development & Sales Batteries

Matthias Mengler

Head of RES Sales

Denis Grynbaum

Country Manager France

Thomas Crabtree

Country Manager Netherlands

Arman Mohii

Country Manager Nordic