Energy assets are often not operated in a market-driven manner, but controlled according to rigid schedules or gut feeling. This leaves valuable flexibility unused and not marketed via balancing energy, day-ahead, or intraday markets – significant revenue potential is lost.
Reduce Operating Costs
The Operator unlocks revenue potential by strategically marketing your flexibility on day-ahead, intraday, and balancing energy markets. It frees up the valuable prime times when your flexibility is worth the most.
Increase Resilience
The Operator creates robust asset schedules that remain stable even during unforeseen events. Through continuous adjustments based on real-time data, it responds flexibly to production changes and market volatility.
Reduce Emissions
The Operator calculates the optimal dispatch while considering CO2 targets. With the near-optimal function, you can deliberately deviate slightly from the cost optimum to achieve your climate goals.
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The Building Blocks of the Operator
The Operator optimizes the operation of your energy assets in real-time and unlocks revenue potential across all relevant energy markets.
Request DemoThe Operator optimizes simultaneously across all energy carriers: electricity, gas, heat, cold, compressed air, and steam. It identifies cross-carrier synergies and uses, for example, waste heat from electricity generation for heating purposes.
The Operator integrates all relevant energy markets into a single optimization: In the balancing energy market, capacity is provided and compensated for grid stabilization. The day-ahead market trades electricity for the following day until 12 PM. The intraday market allows short-term adjustments up to 5 minutes before delivery. The Operator identifies valuable prime times and releases flexibility exactly when it's worth the most.
The Operator 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 to operate with human-in-the-loop recommendations or fully automatic control.
The Operator integrates your production planning from ERP systems to create precise demand forecasts. It considers shift schedules, machine allocations, and production programs. This way, it can predict when energy demand occurs and when flexibility is available.
The Operator offers multi-site capability and optimizes your entire portfolio across locations. It aggregates flexibilities from multiple plants and markets them bundled. This way you achieve better prices and can economically leverage even smaller flexibilities.
The Operator proactively notifies you via email or push notification when action is required. It warns of impending peak loads, informs about market opportunities, and sends optimization recommendations directly to the relevant contacts.
The Operator calculates flexibility bands with time windows, direction (buy/sell), available quantity, and marginal prices for activation. This information is transmitted directly to flexibility marketers or trading desks to enable optimal marketing.
FAQ
Answers to the most important questions about operational optimization with the Operator.
More Questions?The Operator handles operational short-term planning (hours to days) and dispatch optimization: How should operations run today and tomorrow? The Designer manages strategic long-term planning (years) and investment decisions: What should be built? Both use the same energy model (Digital Twin).
The Operator 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 revenues.
The Operator requires more detailed parameters than the Digital Twin, such as ramping constraints, minimum loads, and startup costs. Additionally, it 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 like 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 maintain. In human-in-the-loop mode, you receive action recommendations and decide yourself. In fully automatic mode, the edge controller controls the assets directly. We recommend starting with human-in-the-loop and gradually automating.
The Operator offers holistic optimization that combines peak shaving with spot market arbitrage. It dynamically evaluates the trade-offs between peak load reduction and favorable electricity prices to minimize your total energy costs – not just avoid peaks.
Flexibility bands describe what flexibility is available at what time. They contain time windows, direction (increase/decrease generation), available quantity in kWh per 15-minute block, and the marginal price for activation. This information is transmitted to marketers or trading desks.
Yes, the Operator is designed to complement existing IT systems, including control systems and energy management systems. Standardized interfaces enable integration. The Operator can send recommendations to your EMS or bridge IT-OT via an edge controller.
For Operator mode, high accuracy in parameters and modeling is crucial. We recommend a validation phase where the model is tested against historical data. Only when it reflects real performance should live operation begin.
