Power Scheduling
Use Your Flexibility for Higher Revenues
With power scheduling you can generate higher revenues for your flexible assets or reduce energy costs of your company by strategically planning your consumption processes. As a specialist for short-term electricity markets, we operate on the day-ahead and intraday markets and can achieve the best prices for you.
Schedule Optimization for Generators
The price for power changes 24 times a day at the day-ahead markets and 96 times a day at the intraday market of the EPEX SPOT. The price differences can be enormous and may exceed 50 Euro per MWh. So why should you not use this volatility for your advantage and produce power when the price for it is high and let your asset rest when the price is low. Through schedule optimization you can increase the revenues of flexible assets such as biogas, CHP or hydropower plants.
Power Production and Schedule Optimization
Optimizing the production of a distributed asset through a VPP can result in a significant revenue growth. Depending on the asset type and the market various different options for optimization are possible. In consultation with our analysts and traders, our algorithms develop a schedule for your asset that allows you to take advantage of price spreads at the short-term power exchange. This can range from a weekly schedule, a daily optimization or a peak-load operation that is based on the quarter of an hour of the spot market. You decide according to the parameters of your asset, how you want to optimize your operation.
Individual schedules for your asset: All asset specific parameters are considered: The specific requirements of your asset (gas storage, minimum power production, etc.) are taken into account by our experts for establishing your schedule.
Full control: You decide which functions can be controlled by our control system. This includes the maximum number of starts & stops, power limits for steering your asset, and many more.
Highly secure M2M communication: In order to provide maximum security, all data exchange between your asset and the control system are only established via an encrypted mobile-connection. Our redundant server topology guarantees maximum availability and connection to the VPP.
Here you can see the exemplary operation of a biogas plant, which follows the price development on the electricity market.
References
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Dirk Meyerdrees
ATZ Melle
Next Kraftwerke is a partner that turns the flexibility of our Biogas plants into valuable revenue…
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Onno Wilberts & Guido Koch
Owner of a biogas plant
Since the first minute, working with Next Kraftwerke has been a close cooperation with a lot of valuable information. From our perspective, this is an excellent business relationship.
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Matthias Reimers
DHSV Dithmarschen
The system automatically selects the cheapest quarters of an hour each day for pumping the water back into the North Sea and at the same time reduces our energy costs up to 30 percent in comparisson to our old power rate.
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Karl-Heinz Zurhold
Graduate Engineer, Altenberge
Helping each other, finding solutions and working forward for enabling renewables - that is the common goal.
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Christoph Drusenbaum
Zweckverband Bodensee-Wasserversorgung
We can save a six-digit amount of electricity costs annually through these optimizations in electricity procurement.
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Sören Sönksen
GP JOULE
In order to be able to operate even more flexibly, we later also made the feeding of the system more flexible. Contrary to the prophecies of doom of some experts, this did not have any negative effects on the biology in the fermenter.”
Numbers & Facts
Aggregated Flexibility
2 555
MWNetworked Capacity
12 294
MW Q4 2022Volume of traded energy
15.1
TWh in 2019Aggregated Units
15 346
Q4/2022Aggregated consumers
733
MWEmployees
299
We are Next Kraftwerke
As one of the largest Virtual Power Plants in Europe, we network thousands of decentralized electricity generators, consumers and storage units. Through this network, we enable smaller units such as wind, solar, and biogas plants, as well as battery storage and electricity consumers, to participate in lucrative electricity markets. With our own trading floor, we trade on various European power exchanges and provide balancing power for grid stabilization. This way, we help shape the energy landscape of the future - for a power supply from 100% renewable energies.
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Flexibility is a valuable commodity
With the increasing feed-in of solar and wind energy, volatility on the spot market has increased. Harnessing the resulting price spreads can result in significantly higher revenues. My team strives for getting the best out of your flexible power production.
Julia Schleper
Trader -
Carefree market access
Communicating with TSOs, DSOs or taking care of invoices can be a very time consuming job. Let us take care of this for you. And if you have any questions – don't hesitate. We are here to help.
Susanne Katerbau
Customer Service Manager
