PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS & OPEN LETTERS
SEDC answer to the European Commission’s consultation on the Review of Directive 2012/27/EU on Energy Efficiency January 2016
The Smart Energy Demand Coalition and a group of other industry associations from different sectors have today called for ambitious proposals for electricity market reforms in 2016.
CyberGrid was founded in 2010 as a specialist in development of innovative Demand Response and Virtual Power Plant solutions, located in Vienna, Austria. Our main goal is to boost the efficient use of energy storage systems in combination with existing generation, transmission and distribution resources and the integration of renewables. We contribute to the European wide research agenda.
For more information: www.cyber-grid.com.
Watt-IS is a Data Analytics company specialized in developing and deploying AI-powered data analytics services based on smart metering data. Our services are designed to target the needs of energy retailers, Distribution System Operators (DSO) and related stakeholders. Watt-IS goal is to support stakeholders across the energy value chain in the energy transition process by leveraging AI-based analytics and solutions.
With our services, we empower our partners to increase the energy client satisfaction and reduce churn rates through a focus on energy efficiency, addressing new business models such as Renewable Energy Communities (REC) and improving the daily operations of DSOs.
For more information: https://watt-is.com/
For more information: https://www.kaluza.com/
Smart Energy LAB is an organization for developing any new product, service, or process that accelerates the business of companies offering New Energy Downstream solutions.
We do it by combining three levers of acceleration of the end-user energy transition – Client adoption, Transactional cost reduction and Technology adaptation for delivery.
Together with our stakeholders from industry and academia, we accelerate energy transition through a unique combination of science, technology, and access to market expertise. Smart Energy Lab has been investing and solving problems for energy companies in three focus areas: Flexibility offerings, EV charging and EMS to implement complex use cases.
For more information: https://www.smartenergylab.pt/
For more information: https://www.photonenergy.com/
For more information: https://ohme-ev.com/be/
For more information: https://ignes.fr/
In 1948 Honda started as a bicycle auxiliary engine manufacturer in a small factory in Hamamatsu, Japan. Over the decades, Honda has grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer of engines for a variety of products including automobiles, motorcycles, and power products. Today, we now seek to meet the challenge of climate change by achieving carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities Honda is involved in by 2050.
For many products, electrification can bring a sustainable solution. However, to ensure customer satisfaction, practicality and affordability, we also need to take into consideration the place our products hold within the energy grid. This has led Honda to the launch of our e:PROGRESS service in UK and Germany, offering smart charging services that maximise the use of renewable energy, whilst delivering significant savings for our EV customers. It is our intention to expand this service to other countries in the coming years. In addition to e:PROGRESS, our research facility in Offenbach, Germany continues to investigate the ‘smart company’ concept, a system approach to maximising renewable energy use. It combines an onsite solar array, a second life battery storage unit, uni-directional Honda Power Chargers, bi-directional Honda Power Manager smart chargers, and green hydrogen production, storage and refuelling. These elements are connected to an Energy Management System developed by Honda R&D Europe that balances demand and supply across all users for the best outcome.
Media Website: https://hondanews.eu/eu/en
Further information on e:PROGRESS: https://honda-eprogress.co.uk/
For more information: https://decade.energy/
For more information: https://www.arval.com/
For more information: https://greenvolt.com/
Entelios is a leading European Demand Response aggregator and service provider for decentralised energy resources in the industrial and commercial sectors. The company identifies, bundles and sells flexibility of demand assets, decentral generation assets and storage into markets for flexibility and capacity. With its advanced technology it helps transmission system operators, distribution system operators and energy suppliers to maintain grid stability and balance of demand and supply in the electricity system, while helping consumers valorise the flexibility of their demand side assets.
For more information: www.entelios.com
Part of the Knauf Group, we are a GreenTech company building the world's Virtual Energy Infrastructure (VEI). VEI replaces power generation with metered savings from energy efficiency renovations. It deploys smart connected technology to enable buildings to actively participate in supporting the energy system. At its core is a technology innovation, the negaWatt hour (nWh) meter.
For more information: https://www.knaufenergy.com/
What Elli does
Elli wants to change the way people use electricity in the future by offering data-driven energy
solutions. They make people´s electric life easier, safer, cooler and totally hassle-free. Always and
anywhere.
Every day Elli is doing its best to improve its customers’ life and experience with electricity. The
services and products being developed will influence how they choose and use vehicles and energy in the future.
To offer smart energy and charging solutions, Elli will be able to connect anyone to its electricity
ecosystem including intelligent battery and sustainable storage solutions.
For more information: https://www.elli.eco/en/home
For more information: https://www.tilt-energy.com/
For more information: https://energytag.org/
For more information: https://plexigrid.com/
FRACTAL ENERGY is a French start up developing the Flex Box, the first Plug&Play integrated smart home energy storage device allowing to control household electricity consumption using real time data from smart meters and a responsive web platform enabling the aggregation of the flexibility potential of each household.
For more information: https://fractalenergy.io/
Lunar Energy is on a mission to transition homes to 100% clean energy. We design and engineer the world’s best clean energy products to electrify homes and connect communities to form clean, resilient virtual power plants (VPPs) — making our electricity greener, cleaner, and energy more safe, secure and reliable for all. Lunar Gridshare is our leading energy management platform, designed to optimize millions of DER in increasingly dynamic markets. Gridshare connects with 3rd party devices, creates detailed predictions of household and fleet energy behavior, and maximizes value for customers and the grid.
For more information: https://www.lunarenergy.com/
Fermata Energy’s proprietary vehicle-to-everything (V2X) software platform and bidirectional chargers turn EVs into mobile energy storage assets, making it possible for EVs owners to combat climate change, increase energy resilience, and reduce energy costs.
For more information: www.fermataenergy.com and LinkedIn.
Welcome to Apex Lab, your software partner at the intersection of renewable energy and cutting-edge technology. As a dynamic energy software development agency, we specialize in delivering end-to-end solutions that empower energy companies to thrive in the rapidly evolving landscape.
At Apex Lab, our 30+ member team has a blend of talent and expertise that can support you to meet the demands of an industry in constant flux. With a deep understanding of complex energy domains, we position ourselves as catalysts for startups and scale-ups, building custom software to help you get ahead of the competition..
Our strength lies in our product-focused mindset, coupled with radical internal and external transparency. We thrive on challenging conventional ideas with a collaborative attitude, ensuring the delivery of intricate projects tailored to align with the unique needs of industry leaders.
Our passion for the future of energy extends beyond our projects, as we actively promote pragmatic solutions, connecting professionals and facilitating continuous events at The Grid Community: https://thegrid.community/
Apex Lab is your software partner in navigating the continuously growing challenges of sustainable and smart energy solutions. We aim to build impactful digital products to accelerate the progress to a greener future.
For more information: https://www.apexlab.io/
Viessmann is a solution provider for the entire living space.The company develops seamless climate solutions that provide people with the optimum room temperature, hot water, electricity and good air quality in equal measure. In its Integrated Solutions Offering, Viessmann combines products and systems on the basis of the right energy sources via platforms and digital services. In addition, there is a wide range of value-added services. Wherever technically possible, Viessmann relies on renewable sources. In all other cases, fossil fuels are used as efficiently as possible. Founded in 1917, the family business attaches particular importance to responsible and long-term action. Sustainability is firmly rooted in the company values and is reflected in the company's purpose statement "We create living spaces for generations to come.”. Creating living spaces for generations to come is the responsibility of the 12,300 members of a strong Viessmann family worldwide.
For more information: www.viessmann-
For more information: https://www.aneo.com/
Based on a multi cloud architecture, the platform of Wattsdat provides services to Retailers, Consumers and Prosumers to improve the environment and to generate value for local communities and companies.
The platform leverages data generated by energy exchanges within and between buildings, connecting things, technologies, measures, prices, tariffs and incentives to valuate the real cash flow in a quantitative, continuous and dynamic way by relating economic and technical performances.
The platform enables third parties to build up and exploit energy value added services scaling from single object to district level.
With the platform it is possible to take informed actions, to run scenario analysis based on granular data and specific adjustable custom inputs, to manage Energy as a Services initiatives and to run customer engagement and revenue management operation in the energy markets.
For more information: https://e-ot.it
EPQ is a leading aggregator in the flexibility sector in Italy with a broad knowledge and a pioneering vision of energy markets. Specialized in Demand Side Response and other innovative flexibility solutions, our core strength is the ability to address our customer’s needs with a holistic perspective aimed at identifying undiscovered opportunities. Our customers are primarily industrial and commercial companies in search of a different standpoint.
For more information: www.epqformula.it
For more information: https://www.ev.energy/
‘SMPnet is a trusted leader in advanced power grid management solutions, driven by our state-of-the-art Omega technology. Our comprehensive system integrates with existing technologies, empowering utilities and energy service companies to efficiently control and optimise energy systems. With a strong focus on enhancing network capacity, integrating renewable energy sources, and reducing operational costs, we are revolutionising how power grids are managed. Our solutions enable effective and sustainable asset management, shaping the future of energy distribution.’
For more information: https://www.smpnetworks.com/
For more information: https://fusebox.energy/
For more information: https://electron.net/
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Competence Center ‘Business Engineering’ (HSLU, CC BE): achieving climate targets with technological innovations
At HSLU, we aim at achieving climate targets and mastering the energy transition through applied research and teaching. With our expertise in developing holistic solutions, and a strong track record in many European and national research projects, we support smart grid technologies as they enter the market. Our toolset includes techno-economic optimization, market modelling, multiple benefit analysis, business ecosystem design and business innovation.
For more information: https://www.hslu.ch/en/
For more information: https://oaktreepower.com/
EVBox drives sustainable mobility by providing smart and scalable charging infrastructure and charging management software to electric vehicles around the world. Powered by ENGIE, EVBox has placed over 115,000 charging points across more than 55 countries. With residential, commercial, public, and fast-charging solutions, EVBox is helping to build a future where everyday transport is emission-free.
For more information: evbox.com
“Aug-e; short for “augmented energy”; is a smart energy management platform that manages to actively control your energy consumption based on artificial intelligence with the multiple purpose of:
Our software platform makes the technological bridge between data and energy, thus forming the basis for a whole arsenal of sustainable and innovative energy solutions that create economic value & peace of mind for all people, wherever they live or work. We believe in the evolution towards a fully sustainable and connected energy community, respecting each other's future.
For more information: https://www.aug-e.io/en/
Navitasoft is the developer of Energy Market of Things (EMoT.eu) platform, which aims to lower energy market entry barrier for small capacity distributed energy resources (e.g.: residential roof top solar, small-scale battery, heat pumps, EV chargers etc.), as well as enable an efficient participation in demand side response markets. Similarly, to Fintech revolution, EMoT aims to enable energy market access for small capacity asset owners to generate market-based revenue. They can offer capacities, set their prices, or accept price offerings. The network operators benefit from pooled, and aggregated assets to call for demand side response or other balancing services. On the other hand, aggregators, virtual power plant operators and traders benefit from listed, categorized by type and qualified pool of available assets and their locations, thus, significantly reducing the integration costs of these assets into their portfolio.
Since 2008 Navitasoft provides energy business software solutions and IT consultancy for the regulated electricity and gas market players such as transmission system operators, storage system operators, energy traders, shippers, and regulators. The company also provides production and battery optimisation, as well as intraday algotrading solutions besides traditional power plants, for aggregators and virtual power plant operators as well. Navitasoft software solutions are used in 16 countries, and by 8 transmission system operators.
For more information: https://navitasoft.com/en
Fever is a multi-market platform for monetising your energy assets. By connecting your energy resources and devices to Fever - you get a simple, automated and optimised way of participating in the energy markets. Our platform ensures that our partners get the most out of their flexibility by helping the grid with demand response and other grid services. Together with our partners, we are able to accelerate the transition to renewable energy sources while empowering their customers with new and impactful value streams.
For more information: https://www.fever.energy/
For more information: https://www.huawei.com/en/
For more information: www.deftpower.com
For more information: www.energyweb.org
Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that’s active in Norway, Sweden, Germany and launched in 2022 in the Netherlands as well. Currently serving 500 000 customers, Tibber has a goal of empowering 10 million European households to consume energy smarter. Tibber offers wholesale spot prices to customers with a zero profit margin model, instead charging a fixed fee per month. Leveraging this model, Tibber is able to deliver services such as smart charging and smart heating to customers together with grid services to both TSOs and DSOs.
For more information: https://tibber.com/en
LCP Delta™ combines the expertise of LCP Energy and Delta-EE to provide a single partner across the whole energy value chain. We are a team of passionate people using data, primary research, insights, analysis and models embracing advanced technology and innovation to accelerate the energy transition globally.
For more information: www.delta-ee.com
Fore more information: https://www.voltus.co/
ThermoVault helps electricity consumers and utilities to save money while allowing for the integration of more renewables.
We developed an all-in software and hardware solution for energy services that retrofits residential customers’ existing electric water and space heaters into energy-saving and lucrative grid-responsive energy storage devices.
We now control over 1.5MW of flexible power in Belgian households, in compliance with the stringest metering and telemetry requirements (European FRC). We always combine grid services with energy savings, unlocking all values in residential loads.
For more information: thermovault.com
VaasaETT is an energy consultancy specialized in complex end-user market issues in six continents and over 90 jurisdictions around the world. Our insight is based on the most advanced data science, market leading data sets, outstanding experience and an unrivalled network of sources developed over more than two decades. We assist clients with Market Assessment and Entry, Innovative Development and M&A. Our goal is to support our clients in their efforts to transform and develop for the benefit of consumers, society and sustainability. VaasaETT was one of the two co-founders of smartEn.
For more information: www.vaasaett.com
Hive Power’s subscription-based SaaS, FLEXO, enables companies to manage anything connected to the grid, from smart EV Charging to Energy Communities.
For more information: https://www.hivepower.tech/
Octopus’s domestic energy arm in Great Britain already serves 3.1 million customers with cheaper greener power, through Octopus Energy, M&S Energy, Affect Energy, Ebico, London Power and Co-op Energy. Octopus Electric Vehicles is helping make clean transport cheaper and easier, and Octopus Energy Services is bringing smart products to thousands of homes. Octopus Energy Generation is one of Europe’s largest investors in renewable energy, managing a £3.4 billion portfolio of renewable energy assets throughout the continent.
All of these are made possible by Octopus’s tech arm, Kraken Technologies, which offers a proprietary, in-house platform based on advanced data and machine learning capabilities, Kraken automates much of the energy supply chain to allow outstanding service and efficiency as the world transitions to a decentralised, decarbonised energy system. This technology has been licensed to support over 20 million customer accounts worldwide, through deals with EDF Energy, Good Energy, E.ON energy and Origin Energy.
In December 2021, Octopus Energy Group was valued at approximately $5 billion following a $600 million investment from Generation Investment Management and a $300 million investment from Canada Pensions Plan Investments Board. Both investors back businesses that drive sustainability, promote green energy and tackle climate change. It was the company’s third major investment round since launching to the market.
For more information: https://octopus.energy/
Piclo develops software to make electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable. Chaired by Volker Beckers, the London-based company has been building solutions for the energy industry since 2013, having secured investment from the Green Angel Syndicate, Mott MacDonald Ventures and the Clean Growth Fund. Piclo Flex is the leading independent marketplace for flexibility services. Piclo Flex simplifies the end-to-end process for System Operators (SO) to source energy flexibility from Flexibility Service Providers (FSP), with over 12GW of flexible capacity registered. Since 2018, Piclo has supported the business-as-usual flexibility procurement of six of the UK DNOs and is commercially contracted with UK Power Networks, SP Energy Networks and Electricity North West.
For more information: https://www.piclo.energy/
Joule Assets delivers financing solutions backed by performance insurance for energy efficiency (EE) and demand response (DR) initiatives and projects. We create Energy Reduction Assets (ERA) by integrating simple financing and insurance options with untapped revenue streams from our market analysis software tools like ERA-DR. Leveraging our proprietary database, software and extensive industry expertise, our mission is to expand commerce and reduce barriers in these complicated markets by creating transparency and providing financing solutions.
For more information: www.jouleassets.com
Nuvve Corp. is a San Diego based company, whose mission is to lower the cost of electrical vehicle (EV) ownership while supporting the integration of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. Their Grid Integrated Vehicle platform GIVe™ transforms EVs into grid assets when charging while guaranteeing the expected level of charge when the vehicle owner needs it. The aggregation of thousands of electric vehicles into a virtual power plant using the GIVe platform, allows Nuvve to participate in electricity markets with a power capacity comparable to traditional generators. Based on vehicle to grid technology or V2G, the GIVe platform gives benefits to public organisations, businesses and homes by reducing the cost of electric infrastructure and reducing CO2 emissions.
For more information: www.nuvve.com
The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT SE and its affiliates operate physical short-term electricity markets in Central Western Europe and the United Kingdom. As part of EEX Group, a group of companies serving international commodity markets, EPEX SPOT is committed to the creation of a pan-European power market. In 2019, its 302 members traded 593 TWh – a third of the domestic consumption in the eight countries covered. 49% of its equity is held by HGRT, a holding of transmission system operators.
For more information: www.epexspot.com
Novojy is a Belgian consulting company specialized in the integration of renewable energy, storage and flexibility in electricity (micro)grids and markets. It provides engineering, business and regulatory advices to customers such as transmission and distribution system operators, power electronics manufacturers, software developers or energy solutions providers.
Among its other activities outside of the energy sector, the company also provides consulting services in the fields of environmental engineering, geospatial data science and machine learning.
Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. Vestas design, manufacture, install and service wind turbines across the globe, and with more than 108 GW of wind turbines in 80 countries, have installed more wind power than anyone else.
For more information: https://www.vestas.com/en
Energy Systems Catapult was set up to accelerate the transformation of the UK’s energy system and ensure UK businesses and consumers capture the opportunities of clean growth. The Catapult is an independent, not-for-profit centre of excellence that bridges the gap between industry, government, academia and research. We take a whole systems view of the energy sector, helping us to identify and address innovation priorities and market barriers to decarbonise the energy system at least cost.
For more information: https://es.catapult.org.uk/
Eaton’s mission is to improve the quality of life and the environment through the use of power management technologies and services. We provide sustainable solutions that help our customers effectively manage electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power – more safely, more efficiently, and more reliably. Eaton’s 2019 revenues were $21.4 billion, and we sell products to customers in more than 175 countries. We have approximately 95,000 employees.
For more information: www.eaton.com/energytransition
Amp X is a digital energy services platform business to unlock flexibility from the grid-edge at a massive scale, ultimately enabling a fully transactive, future-proof grid.
Our combination of autonomy-based Smart Transformers for distribution network infrastructure upgrades, and fully automated-autonomous behind-the-meter energy management technology will significantly increase the carrying capacity and efficiency of the existing electricity network, leading to a scalable transactive grid.
Amp X digital energy services platform will maximise the participation of distributed generation/demand in the provision of flexibility services - maintaining or improving system stability at lowest cost and resolving local energy/system/voltage issues associated with the increased penetration of Distributed Energy Resources.
For more information: https://ampx.energy/
The goal of The Mobility House is to create a zero-emission energy and mobility future. Our technology unites the automotive and energy industries. We integrate vehicle batteries into the power grid using intelligent charging and energy solutions. This way, we promote the development of renewable energies, stabilize the power grid, and make electric mobility more affordable.
We support our private and business customers on their way to electromobility through the planning and building process as well as the operation of an individual charging infrastructure. As a neutral supplier, we work together with many partners such as charging infrastructure manufacturers, installation companies, back-end system operators, energy suppliers and automobile manufacturers. Our intelligent Charging and Energy Management system, ChargePilot, enables our customers and partners to integrate electric vehicles into the grid in a way that is both grid-optimized and future-proof.
For more information: https://www.mobilityhouse.com/int_en/
Ingka Group (Ingka Holding B.V. and its controlled entities) is one of 12 different groups of companies that own and operate IKEA retail under franchise agreements with Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Ingka Group has three business areas: IKEA Retail, Ingka Investments and Ingka Centres. Ingka Group is a strategic partner in the IKEA franchise system, operating 380 IKEA stores in 30 countries. These IKEA stores had 839 million visits during FY19 and 2.6 billion visits to their website. Ingka Group operates business under the IKEA vision - to create a better everyday life for the many people by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible can afford it.
For more information: http://www.ikea.com
We simplify, amplify and accelerate energy decarbonization for companies and communities around the world.
Our clients call upon us to improve their energy efficiency and to increase their access to affordable clean energy. We deliver energy efficiency through our suite of advanced energy management platforms, designed to monitor, manage, optimize and control energy needs from consumption to generation and storage, and from aggregation to peer-to-peer trading and grid-level flexibility. Today we manage 1.9TWh, serving over 2000 client locations, including commercial and industrial enterprises, international airports and several energy communities. In parallel, our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) has been adopted by leading energy retailers and Independent Power Producers for more reliable planning, forecasting and bidding in day ahead and intraday markets. In short, we operate ‘behind the meter’ and in ‘front of the meter’ – offering real-time efficiency gains that help clients reduce their operating costs while increasing their rate of decarbonization.
We’re very happy about our achievements to date and we’re thrilled about where we’re going… building on our core capabilities in advanced energy management software and our domain expertise in PV solar installations, we’re now rapidly expanding our offer to include Clean Energy as a Service through Renewable Energy Communities. That’s right, we originate and manage RECs that deliver the combined benefits of low cost clean energy and advanced energy management services to local communities around the world including industrial parks, business parks, airports, maritime ports, shopping malls, resorts, islands, suburban agglomerations and many other multiparticipant environments – and we deliver all of it with zero capital outlay from our clients!
Clean energy. Decentralized, digitized and democratized.
For more information: www.cleanwatts.energy
NET2GRID is an award winning, AI enabled company which empowers utilities to provide actionable insights to their customers based on analysis of their energy usage data.
Through our service we aim to enhance the gross margin of utilities, improve the customer engagement experience and contribute towards accelerating the world’s energy transition to a sustainable future.
We provide energy suppliers the tools which enable them to service their own customers better by using the energy usage data they already possess; historical, smart meter or real time data. At the core of our expertise lies cutting edge AI machine learning services in energy insights & energy consumption prediction. Additionally, NET2GRID has in-house developed low-cost hardware to unlock real-time meter data for global markets that are self-installable.
Our service is used by energy suppliers worldwide and we help them to build a loyal customer base of satisfied customers, reduce their cost and expand their business by generating upsell and cross sell leads towards energy saving solutions and integrating residential products like EV, PV, heat pumps into an integrated Home Energy Overview with Virtual Power Plant capabilities.
We have offices in the Netherlands and Greece.
For more information: www.net2grid.com
Traxis Energy is an exclusive medium scale-growth programme for invited, leading businesses interested in delivering distributed energy at scale.
Traxis Energy:
by bringing together corporates, proven early stage businesses and potential investors in a set of private, mutually aligned interest groups focused on delivery.
We address the middle ground between early adoption and the mass market that is the challenge of “crossing the chasm”.
For more information: https://www.traxisgroup.com/
Active since 2013 in Belgium, Flexcity is one of the market leaders in electrical flexibility (demand response) in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and is expanding internationally.
Flexcity's core business is to contribute to the balancing of the electricity grid through the automated control of a large portfolio of flexible assets. Electricity grid users (consumers or producers) can therefore use Flexcity's technology and expertise to participate in innovative electrical services and be remunerated for this participation. Flexcity's portfolio includes several technologies such as batteries, distributed generation facilities and large industrial processes. Flexcity integrates renewable energy sources into its portfolio, offering potential new revenues to emerging technologies.
Through its integration by Veolia in July 2019, Flexcity is building on a solid financial base and accelerating its international expansion.
Flexcity has always responded to the opening of a new market by being among the first entrants, as was the case in 2014 for the opening of the tertiary reserve.
For more information: https://www.flexcity.energy/en
Bamboo Energy is a recently created start up providing advanced technological solutions to monetise demand management and flexibility from asset portfolios. Bamboo Energy aims to accelerate the energy transition, democratize the access to cleaner and cheaper energy by providing ways to monetize the flexibility of energy assets and the integration of increasingly renewable energy sources. Our vision is to become the software platform of choice for demand aggregators.
Bamboo Energy was born to be the software platform of choice for demand aggregation offering a modular architecture and versatile platform. We are able to adapt customer requirements and regulations whilst minimising customisation efforts. Our technology has Artificial Intelligence core that allows customised and tailored solutions whilst reducing operating costs. It has the capability to manage all type of demand flexibility, which avoids asset discrimination, and offers an easy integration platform, providing aggregation management to the energy market agents including whole suite of functionalities and advanced artificial intelligence techniques at its core.
For more information: https://bambooenergy.tech/
Vanguard Consulting Oy is a Finnish management consulting company specialized in energy transformation topics and helping customers with strategic business development initiatives.
For more information: https://vgc.fi/
AFRY (ÅF Pöyry) is a division of Pöyry and Europe’s leading management consultancy specialised in the energy sector, providing strategic, commercial, regulatory and policy advice to Europe’s energy markets. The team of over 200 energy specialists, located across 14 European offices, offers unparalleled expertise in the rapidly changing energy sector. Our team of economists, policy analysts, regulatory experts and market specialists bring many years of industry experience to bear on clients’ problems. Our core strength is the ability to combine expert knowledge of the markets with first class quantitative analysis to offer the highest quality commercial, economic, strategic, and policy advice in the rapidly changing energy sector. In recent years we have conducted extensive work in the related fields of intermittency (wind and solar), renewable grid integration, smart energy and within that smart grids for a wide range on clients internationally including national and pan-European government agencies. Our work has helped inform policy makers of the quantitative benefits of demand side participation in energy markets and is influencing development of policies to encourage development of demand side activity as part of effective, secure and economic decarbonisation of the energy sector. It has also supported the market entry strategies in European markets for a range of demand side providers.
For more information: https://afry.com/en
A passion for new technologies, intensive research and revolutionary solutions have been shaping the Fronius brand since 1945. As the technology leader, we find, develop, and implement innovative methods to monitor and control energy for photovoltaics, battery charging and welding technology,. We forge new paths, try something difficult and succeed where others have failed in achieving what seems to be impossible. But these are not the only reasons why Fronius is the global leader in innovation and technology. We have a clear vision, an unremittingly inventive spirit, and an ingrained sense of quality, so we can keep shifting the limits of what is possible and set the trends that change the market.
24 hours of sun is our goal, and Fronius is working every day to make this vision of a future in which the world's energy needs are met from 100 percent renewables a reality. Accordingly, we are driving the energy revolution accordingly so far, we have 287 active patents for solar energy, around 2.41 million inverters installed, more than 29.4 TWh of annual generation, and more than 21 GW of installed capacity.
Fronius is developing smart energy solutions to generate, store, distribute and consume solar energy cost-effectively and intelligently.
The advanced technology and sheer quality of the innovative products from Fronius have filled people with enthusiasm for generations, inspiring confidence, trust, and satisfaction. Their sustainability is impressive, they boost productivity, increase energy yields, and reduce operating costs. They help our customers to make significant progress and lay the foundations for growth and successful development. Fronius has 36 subsidiaries on five continents – yet we are still the same owner-managed company we have always been, combining the values of a family business with regional roots, with the visions of a global company.
"We are all together 24 hours of Sun"
For more information: https://www.fronius.com
BeChained has developed a smart-energy platform for sustainable purpose businesses.
BeChained helps energy intensive consumers to manage their flexible distributed resources in order to reduce consumption, energy costs and CO2 emissions.
BeChained certifies business installation carbon footprint and tokenises energy transactions, keeping end-to-end track of the origin of energy and generates CO2 credits for virtuous businesses.
BeChained's ultimate goal is to decarbonise the energy system with demand-side flexibility, reducing the dependency from fossil fuel power plants to balance unexpected peak moments.
For more information: www.bechained.com
Sitting at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home and customer-centric utilities, dcbel leverages its breakthroughs in power electronics to develop elegant smart energy appliances that enable you power your life on your terms. Our flagship product, dcbel r16, is an integrated bidirectional EV supercharger, powerful solar inverter and smart home energy manager that uses our AI-based energy OS to decarbonize your life and achieve true energy independence.
For more information: https://www.dcbel.energy/
AMPECO is a software company and provides a white-label SaaS infrastructure that enables charge point operators to start and scale a network of stations easily. AMPECO provides a software platform for remote management of the charging stations, payments and billing after charging, and additional smart charging and energy management features. Our software suite includes a white-label and hardware agnostic EV charging management platform bundled with white-label EV driver apps.
AMPECO EV Charging platform provides all the necessary tools to build and run an electric vehicle charging network for clients ranging from charge point operators, installers, fleet operators, energy utilities, oil and gas, municipalities, car parking operators, etc.
As one of the EV charging management market leaders, we enable businesses with innovative software solutions to enter the EV charging market and utilize new business models. We are accelerating positive change and transformation to clean technologies in the mobility and energy sector.
For more information: www.ampeco.com
The OpenADR Alliance was created to standardize, automate, and simplify Demand Response (DR) and Distributed Energy Resources (DER) management to enable utilities and aggregators to cost-effectively manage growing energy demand & decentralized energy production, and customers to control their energy future. OpenADR is an open, highly secure, and two-way information exchange protocol and Smart Grid standard.
For more information: https://www.openadr.org/
Flexibility is a crucial component of a sustainable energy system, as it temporarily adjusts power generation and consumption based on its value and the grid’s needs. At Sympower, we provide sophisticated software solutions to facilitate flexibility to stabilise the grid, while rewarding our customers in return.
We unlock the flexibility of electric assets across industries, from steel smelting to solar panels, electric vehicles to paper production, and maximising the value of this flexibility across energy markets. When the grid is out of balance, we temporarily adjust the power of machines and processes through our advanced and automated demand response capabilities.
By providing non-intrusive software solutions, we allow our customers to enhance the value of their electrical assets and empower traditional industries to become more sustainable and enable the shift from fossil fuels to renewables.
Sympower is playing a fundamental role in making electricity markets accessible, flexible and ready for the energy transition. Currently, the regulation is making this very difficult, policy-making is slow and traditional energy companies feel threatened by the business model of independent aggregators. To succeed, we need a coordinated European approach to help independent aggregators like Sympower to be recognized as primary players in energy markets.
For more information: https://sympower.net/
Sense’s mission is to reduce global carbon emissions by making homes smart and efficient. We empower people to care for their homes and families while contributing to a cleaner, more resilient future. Founded in 2013 by pioneers in speech recognition, Sense uses machine learning technology to provide real-time insights on device behaviour, even for those devices that are not “smart.”
Customers rely on Sense for a wide range of uses including monitoring their home appliances, determining whether they left appliances running and identifying how to reduce their energy costs. For energy suppliers and grid operators, Sense’s artificial intelligence helps engage customers, manage demand at the grid edge, identify anomalies on the network, and reduce operating and power costs.
For more information: https://sense.com/
i-EM Srl
Born in 2005 as a business unit of Flyby S.r.l. Company, i-EM is now a SME subsidiary of Flyby Group and combines multi-disciplinary expertise with passion for technology innovation and preservation of the Earth’s energy resources. Today i-EM works in the global market directly with many different corporate customers. Over the years it has established itself as a leader in the energy decision making. The company is built on the will of enabling energy actors, including end-users, to make the best decision in any circumstance, thanks to real-time situation awareness about the Grid and its elements.
i-EM stands as a big data advanced analysis innovation company with the aim to meet the emerging demand of intelligent management of Energy Smart & Micro Grids, providing tools to make optimal and intelligent decisions.
Since 2005, the company has been developing energy management solutions for renewable energy projects, letting Smart Grid’s behaviour and its elements be manageable and predictable in various areas: distributed generation from renewable sources Smart Grids and energy storage systems, energy efficiency solutions, energy consumption control and optimization, electric vehicles and sustainable mobility.
The company is nowadays a leader in the energy decision making sector thanks to its team. i-EM team is made up of a different set of people and talents, promoting professionalism and individual development and guaranteeing continuous opportunities to learn and grow.
For more information: https://www.i-em.eu/
AFRY (ÅF Pöyry) is a division of Pöyry and Europe’s leading management consultancy specialised in the energy sector, providing strategic, commercial, regulatory and policy advice to Europe’s energy markets. The team of over 200 energy specialists, located across 14 European offices, offers unparalleled expertise in the rapidly changing energy sector. Our team of economists, policy analysts, regulatory experts and market specialists bring many years of industry experience to bear on clients’ problems. Our core strength is the ability to combine expert knowledge of the markets with first class quantitative analysis to offer the highest quality commercial, economic, strategic, and policy advice in the rapidly changing energy sector. In recent years we have conducted extensive work in the related fields of intermittency (wind and solar), renewable grid integration, smart energy and within that smart grids for a wide range on clients internationally including national and pan-European government agencies. Our work has helped inform policy makers of the quantitative benefits of demand side participation in energy markets and is influencing development of policies to encourage development of demand side activity as part of effective, secure and economic decarbonisation of the energy sector. It has also supported the market entry strategies in European markets for a range of demand side providers.
For more information: https://afry.com/en
Gridio - based in Tallinn Estonia - makes electric vehicles charge when it makes sense. Gridio offers electric vehicle owners an easy-to-use app which users can connect their cars and solar systems to Gridio’s smart algorithms which automatically schedule the charging to the best time based on electricity prices. Gridio also offers smart-charging-as-a-service to energy companies and charger and solar retailers who want to offer their customers an elegant solution to become truly smart chargers. Gridio is available in the Nordics and select Western European countries
For more information: https://www.gridio.io/
Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT” @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
For more information: https://www.microsoft.com
Honeywell is a pioneer in Smart Grid solutions and has helped customers remain in control of their facilities and energy usage through Automated Demand Response programs and Smart Grid technologies. Work with Honeywell for a faster, more accurate and repeatable way of managing peak load optimization targets.
For more information: www.honeywell.com
Grid Singularity is an awarded, open source energy technology startup, placing the individual and the environment at the centre of the energy market by developing the energy exchange engine (d3a.io) and cofounding the Energy Web Foundation. Grid Singularity simulates and operates interconnected grid-aware energy marketplaces, facilitating market participation by connecting aggregators and grid operators through an application interface.
For more information: www.gridsingularity.com/
Green Energy Options, Ltd (GEO), founded in 2006, is now a leading provider of in-home displays, mobile, and on-line services for UK and international domestic energy markets. The products and services are designed to engage users and thereby provide utilities with the ability to advance their relationship with their customers. We pride ourselves on combining the benefits of products and on-line services, that together deliver flexible, scalable solutions that are innovative and offer clear business value. In particular, we can design, develop, and support solutions for businesses who are looking to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market space.
For more information: www.geotogether.com
Voltalis is the European leader of distributed demand response (DDR). More than 100,000 homes as well as C&I buildings are equipped with its comprehensive proprietary technology operated by Voltalis in real time. Voltalis’ cost-effective solution allow residential customers participate free of charge, and benefit from energy savings. Being able to deliver balance services to the grid within minutes, Voltalis contributes to system safety and reliability, and indeed is the only operator qualified (since 2008) to provide DDR to the TSO for balancing purposes.
For more information: www.voltalis.com
Siemens – Intelligent building automation systems reduce energy consumption without sacrificing comfort: Siemens offers you building automation systems for all building types, sizes, and for every use. Thanks to open communication standards and interfaces you can integrate a wide choice of different building control disciplines like heating, ventilation, air conditioning applications, lights and blinds, up to safety features, and equipment. With special features such as centralized, intelligent energy management and highly efficient and innovative energy saving functions, and the effective interaction of all system components and processes you will achieve significant cost and energy savings.
For more information: www.siemens.com
tiko – Based in Switzerland, Swisscom Energy Solutions AG develops flexible and modular solutions under the brand tiko and provides fast frequency response with a reaction time of less than 1 second using residential prosumers’ devices such as photovoltaic systems, domestic batteries, systems and heating systems. Satisfying prosumers’ need to increase efficiency and self-consumption thanks to an award-winning energy management system, the company integrates flexibility into International electrical grids in order to offer innovative and new business models.
For more information: www.tiko.ch
As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in Utilities & Infrastructures, Industries & Machine manufacturers, Non-residential buildings, Data centers & Networks, and in Residential. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, efficient, productive and green, the Group’s 110,000 plus employees achieved sales of 19.6 billion euros in 2010, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations make the most of their energy.
For more information: www.schneider-electric.com
Entra agregación y flexibilidad is an Spanish Association that bring together all relevant energy players who aim to make a fair and complete participation of Distributed Energy Resources in the different energy markets to provide flexibility to the system. The association participates in the Spanish legislative process, gathers market intelligence for its members and acts as an influential voice according to the interests of its members.
For more information: www.entra-coalicion.com/
Enel is Italy’s largest power company, and Europe’s second listed utility by installed capacity. It is an integrated player which produces, distributes and sells electricity and gas. The Enel Group has a presence in 40 countries over 4 continents, has around 95,000 MW of net installed capacity and sells power and gas to more than 61 million customers.
For more information: www.enel.com
EDF Group is the leading player in the European energy industry, present in all areas of the electricity value chain, from generation to trading, and increasingly active in the gas chain in Europe. Leader in the French electricity market, the Group also has solid positions in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. In the electricity sector, it has the premier generation fleet and customer portfolio in Europe and operates in strategically targeted areas in the rest of the world. The Group is also the leading network operator in Europe, giving a sound business model, equally balanced between regulated activities and those open to competition. The vocation of EDF R&D is to contribute to improving performance among EDF Group operating units and to identify and prepare new growth drivers for the medium and long terms.
For more information: www.edf.fr
REstore is a leading European Demand Response aggregator, specialized in automated DR. The company was founded in 2010 by Pieter-Jan Mermans and Jan-Willem Rombouts. The team has grown significantly between 2010 and 2013, to serve clients in the UK and in Belgium. Flexpond is its proprietary, patented technology platform, developed to turn DR into a virtual open cycle gas turbine. It currently offers balancing capacity to Elia, EDF and National Grid. The company successfully raised more than € 4 million venture capital in series A and B capital rounds. REstrore shareholders include VC investors LRM, AXE Investments and Ark Angel Fund, along with entrepreneurs and industrial families.
For more information: www.restore.eu
Bundesverband Neue Energiewirtschaft e.V. (bne / Association of Energy Market Innovators) represents the interests of grid-independent energy suppliers and energy service companies in Germany. Unlike suppliers with a connected grid, our members are free of monopoly interests: They are committed to fair competition and a diverse energy market.
For turning the “Energy Transition” (Energiewende) into a success story, we need good ideas. Our member companies have plenty of those! Whether producers, suppliers or energy service providers, they are developing and implementing plentiful new and successful solutions for all areas of the energy sector. bne member companies provide electricity, natural gas and energy services to more than 7 Mio customers in Germany today.
For more information: www.bne-online.de
APPLiA is a Brussels-based trade association that provides a single, consensual voice for the home appliance industry in Europe.
It promotes the industry’s general mission to increase product innovation while reducing the environmental impact of appliances.
APPLiA members produce the following type of appliances:
• Large appliances such as refrigerators, freezers, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines and dryers;
• Small appliances such as vacuum cleaners, irons, toasters and toothbrushes;
• Heating, ventilation and air conditioning appliances such as air conditioners, heat pumps and local space heaters.
The home appliance industry is an important European economic player.
– Generating wealth: the total annual turnover of the industry in Europe is €44bn (2013)
– Providing good employment:
– Total employment as a result of the presence of the sector: approximately 963,000 jobs,
– Direct employment: 211,000 jobs
– investment in the future: €1.4bn contribution to research and development activities in Europe.
For more information: www.applia-europe.eu
Powerledger is a leading technology company that has developed a blockchain-enabled trading platform for renewable energy. By optimizing the management of distributed energy systems, Powerledger offers a range of products, including peer-to-peer energy trading solutions, virtual power plant and grid flexibility services, and more efficient trading of green energy and hydrogen certificates. Powerledger is present in 10 countries across 4 continents, including four European countries. Today, the Powerledger platform is used by over 21,000 people worldwide.
For more information: https://www.powerledger.io/
The sonnen Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of smart energy storage systems and a pioneer of clean, decentralised and networked energy system technologies. As one of the fastest growing tech companies in Europe, sonnen has received numerous internationally recognized awards. With its virtual battery, which consists of digitally networked home storage systems, sonnen offers new and highly innovative energy services for network operators and customers. sonnen’s products are available in many countries and has offices located in Germany, Italy, Australia, the UK and the USA. Since March 2019 sonnen is a wholly owned subsidiary of Shell within its New Energies division.
For more information: www.sonnengroup.com/
Tesla was founded in 2003, with as original mission to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport, later widened to sustainable energy. Tesla designs, manufactures and markets all-electric vehicles together with solutions for renewable energy production and storage. We want to be a catalyst for larger and broader investments in clean energy options.
Since 2008 all Tesla vehicles are 100% electric, with a battery autonomy sufficient to completely replace conventional vehicles. Each generation of Tesla vehicles is one step further towards democratising electric cars as a genuine alternative to combustion vehicles – for short as well as long distance travelling. Starting with a few hundred copies of a first higher end vehicle (Roadster), they are now marketing a second generation of premium family vehicles (Model S and Model X) and moving towards the launch of their third, more affordable, mass-market generation of vehicle by the end of 2017 (Model 3). Early 2017, the global Tesla fleet had covered 6.5 billion fully-electric kilometres.
For more information: www.tesla.com
Wirepas is focused on providing the most reliable, optimized and scalable device connectivity to its customers. With our help customers can digitalize their current business processes and innovate for new disruptive models.
With Wirepas Connectivity there is no need for traditional repeaters, because every wireless device is a smart router of the network. The connected devices are the network – easy as that. In nature, things are communicating making autonomous decisions based on the protocol that is optimized to fulfill the need as efficiently as possible – nothing more, nothing less. This is also what Wirepas is all about.
For more information: www.wirepas.com
The ADE is the UK’s leading decentralised energy advocate, focused on creating a more cost effective, efficient and user-orientated energy system. The ADE has more than 100 members active across a range of technologies, and they include both the providers and the users of energy. Our members have particular expertise in combined heat and power, district heating networks and demand side energy services, including demand response.
For more information: www.theade.co.uk
The Flexiblepower Alliance Network (FAN), founded in 2013, brings together seven partners in energy flexibility. FAN to create a renewable energy future by promoting open-source standards for flexible energy demand, matching the variations in renewable energy, paving the way for a fully renewable energy future.
For this purpose, FAN has created open source protocols and steering flexibility examples, all designed to match variations in energy demand & supply:
– Energy Flexibility Interface (EFI), an open source protocol to steer flexible appliances
– EF-Pi, a practical unit capable of steering flexible appliances using EFI protocol
– The Powermatcher, a source for real-time matching of energy demand & supply.
These developments show the principle of flexibility steering for the renewable energy future. FAN wishes to work together with all interested partners in order to jointly develop general standards for flexibility steering in order to lower the cost of flexible energy solutions and promote wider application.
For more information: www.flexible-energy.eu
gridX – We build the digital infrastructure for the energy transition. Our XENON platform connects and manages distributed energy resources (DERs) from 23 different manufacturers. XENON provides a uniform interface to DERs allowing our customers to take new digital energy products from prototype to a scalable application in no time.
Furthermore, we offer two turnkey solutions built on XENON: XENON charge, a dynamic load management solution, and XENON energy, an energy management system for any scale from single households to microgrids.
For more information: https://www.gridx.ai/
Next Kraftwerke is the operator of a large-scale Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and a certified power trader on various European energy exchanges (e.g. EPEX and EEX). After starting operations in 2009, the VPP now bundles around 8,000 medium- and small-scale power-producing and power-consuming units as well as energy storage units. It includes among others generators such as biogas, wind, and solar. By networking our clients’ units, we have created a sizeable digital platform of flexible power producers and consumers. To put it in a nutshell: We are a power plant operator without any power plants. We operate in all parts of Germany. Since 2014 Next Kraftwerke has set up its own VPP also in Austria, Belgium, France the Netherlands, Poland, Italy, and Switzerland. Additionally, Next Kraftwerke offers a VPP-as-a-service solution, NEMOCS, enabling third parties to build up their own Virtual Power Plant.
For more information: https://www.next-kraftwerke.com/
Regalgrid® is an Italian start-up based in Treviso that has developed a sustainable, advanced, and innovative energy distribution system. Through its patented hardware/software technology, the company has set up an innovative platform of real-time energy services, aggregation, and energy sharing that takes users into the era of Digital Energy. Thanks to the SNOCU (Smart NOde Control Unit), a bidirectional gateway that connects to the photovoltaic system devices with or without a storage system, the Regalgrid® platform transforms consumers into advanced prosumers and brings them into an Energy Community where it is possible to exchange energy, manage consumption directly, and establish a direct relationship with installers and energy providers. This aggregation of users can be managed by advanced service providers with a licensing agreement in line with the objectives that the EU has set down in terms of smart communities. Regalgrid® can offer its services both to communities of private prosumers and to utilities and network managers, through the supply of turnkey solutions.
For more information: www.regalgrid.com
VIOTAS was born from a desire and drive to lead the development of smart grid technology and accelerate the use of renewable energy worldwide.
We are passionate about enabling a low carbon future through developing the most advanced smart grid technologies. Our dedicated research and development team, VIOTAS Innovation, develops leading-edge products and services to empower our customers to earn revenue and help balance the use of renewable energy in the grid.
Choosing VIOTAS means partnering with a helpful and knowledgeable team who is truly passionate about bringing market-leading innovation to our customers and helping enable a global low carbon future.
For more information: https://viotas.com/
Energy Pool is the energy manager allowing for optimization of energy flexibilities and complex systems (pool of end-user’s equipment, storage unit and onsite generation asset).
Energy Pool manages a portfolio of 6 GW of flexible load and distributed generation worldwide. Through our unique software platform, we connect, aggregate and optimize assets to deliver balancing and ancillary services. Backed by a 10-year experience, we provide Utilities and System Operators with proven expertise and technology for their own operations.
For more information: www.energy-pool.eu
DNV which resulted from the merger between DNV and GL now forms the world’s largest ship and offshore classification society, the leading technical advisor to the global oil and gas industry, and a leading expert for the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency. DNV has also taken a position as one of the top three certification bodies in the world. Operating in more than 100 countries, its 16,000 professionals are dedicated to helping our customers make the world safer, smarter and greener. To the energy value chain DNV delivers world-renowned testing and advisory services including renewables and energy efficiency. Its expertise spans onshore and offshore wind power, solar, conventional generation, transmission and distribution, smart grids, and sustainable energy use, as well as energy markets and regulations. 3,000 energy experts support clients around the globe in delivering a safe, reliable, efficient, and sustainable energy supply.
For more information: https://www.dnv.com/
Cuculus GmbH develops, implements, operates and supports server-based Smart Metering and Smart Home software solutions based on the open and meter vendor independent ZONOS platform. The product portfolio includes Advanced Meter Management (AMM) and Meter Data Management (MDM) systems enabling clients to work with the smart meters and communication solutions of choice. Cuculus’ end-to-end solutions enable grid operators, energy suppliers, and other related parties to upgrade their operations and to be ready for the energy transition. Since its founding in 2007, the company has grown continuously and has implemented numerous projects in many countries.
For more information: www.cuculus.net
NODES is the independent marketplace for a sustainable energy future where grid owners, producers and consumers of energy can trade decentralised flexibility and energy.
NODES, as an independent market operator, is addressing key trends and challenges in the energy system such as increased share of renewable power production, decentralised generation and the rapid change of the customer behaviour.
NODES vision is to build Europe’s most customer-centric, integrated energy marketplace to unlock the value of local flexible power resources and support the drive to a sustainable, emission free future.
NODES mission is to facilitate optimal use of flexibility in the grid by offering an open, integrated marketplace to all flexibility provides and grid operators.
For more information: www.nodesmarket.com