Energy assets are often operated without market signals — driven by rigid schedules or gut feeling. Valuable flexibility stays untapped and is not marketed via balancing energy, day-ahead or intraday — significant revenue potential is lost.
Lower operating costs
The Operation Hub unlocks revenue potential by deliberately marketing your flexibility on day-ahead, intraday and balancing energy markets. It frees up the valuable prime-time windows when your flexibility is worth the most.
Increase resilience
The Operation Hub builds robust asset schedules that stay stable even under unforeseen events. Through continuous adjustments based on real-time data, it reacts flexibly to production changes and market volatility.
Reduce emissions
The Operation Hub computes the optimal dispatch while accounting for CO2 targets. With the near-optimal function you can deliberately deviate slightly from the cost optimum to reach your climate goals.
The building blocks of the Operation Hub
The Operation Hub optimizes the operation of your energy assets in real time and unlocks revenue potential across all relevant energy markets.
Request a demoThe Operation Hub optimizes simultaneously across all energy carriers: electricity, gas, heat, cooling, compressed air and steam. It detects cross-carrier synergies and, for example, uses waste heat from power generation for heating purposes.
The Operation Hub integrates all relevant energy markets into a single optimization: in the balancing energy market, capacity is provided and remunerated for grid stabilization. The day-ahead market trades electricity for the next day until 12 noon. The intraday market enables short-term adjustments up to 5 minutes before delivery. The Operation Hub identifies the valuable prime-time windows and frees up flexibility exactly when it is worth the most.
The Operation Hub communicates directly with your assets via industrial protocols such as Modbus and OPC UA. It reads data from PLC systems and smart meters and can send control signals via an edge controller. You decide whether as human-in-the-loop with recommended actions or as fully automated control.
The Operation Hub integrates your production planning from ERP systems to create precise demand forecasts. It accounts for shift schedules, machine allocations and production programs. This lets it predict when which energy demand arises and when flexibility is available.
The Operation Hub offers multi-site capability and optimizes your entire portfolio across locations. It aggregates flexibilities from multiple plants and markets them in bundles. This way you achieve better prices and can economically unlock even smaller flexibilities.
The Operation Hub notifies you proactively by email or push notification when action is needed. It warns of impending load peaks, informs you about market opportunities and sends optimization recommendations directly to the relevant contacts.
The Operation Hub computes flexibility bands with time windows, direction (buy/sell), available quantity and limit prices for activation. This information is transmitted directly to flexibility marketers or trading desks to enable optimal marketing.
Frequently asked questions
Answers to the most important questions about operational optimization with the Operation Hub.
More questions?The Operation Hub handles operational short-term planning (hours to days) and schedule optimization: how should operations run today and tomorrow? The Decision Hub handles strategic long-term planning (years) and investment decisions: what should be built? Both use the same energy model (digital twin).
The Operation Hub integrates day-ahead, intraday and balancing energy markets into a single optimization. It dynamically evaluates where your flexibility achieves the highest value and decides whether you trade on the spot market, offer balancing energy or optimize internally. This maximizes total revenue.
The Operation Hub needs more detailed parameters than the digital twin, for example ramping constraints, minimum loads and start-up costs. It also needs live data integration for asset time series and smart meter data. For intraday trading we recommend 15-minute intervals.
Live data integration can be done via APIs to central systems such as data lakes or via an edge controller directly on site. We support industrial protocols such as Modbus, OPC UA and EDC for direct communication with smart meters and PLC systems.
You decide how much control you want to retain. In human-in-the-loop mode you receive recommended actions and decide yourself. In fully automated mode the edge controller controls the assets directly. We recommend starting with human-in-the-loop and automating step by step.
The Operation Hub offers holistic optimization that combines peak shaving with spot market arbitrage. It dynamically evaluates the trade-offs between load peak reduction and cheap electricity prices to minimize your total energy costs — not just to avoid the peaks.
Flexibility bands describe which flexibility is available at which point in time. They contain time windows, direction (increase/decrease generation), available quantity in kWh per 15-minute block and the limit price for activation. This information is transmitted to marketers or trading desks.
Yes, the Operation Hub is designed as a complement to existing IT systems, including control technology and energy management systems. Standardized interfaces enable integration. The Operation Hub can send recommendations to your EMS or bridge the IT-OT gap via an edge controller.
For Operation Hub mode, high accuracy in parameters and modeling is critical. We recommend a validation phase in which the model is checked against historical data. Only once it reflects real performance should live operation start.
