Distributed Energy and Flexibility Aggregators

Futureproofed. Flexible. Vendor-neutral.

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The aggregator’s role of supporting a market wise and grid conscious bundling and coordination of highly distributed local generation, consumption and storage is instrumental to the energy transition. They tackle the challenge to provide reliable energy and ancillary grid services at the optimal cost and return on investment.

It is an important factor of success to master the challenge, both on a highly granular level and at large-scale, but also fast, reliable and with agility to react to the rapid changes in needs and requirements.

Outcome 1: Fast and simple planning of large volumes of DER assets without changing primary operation management tools for integration. 

Outcome 2: Maximizing benefits from flexibility by leveraging the scale of bigger and/or more groups of assets, even in a heterogeneous environment.

Outcome 3: Easy operation with limited resources based on open, vendor-neutral design to enable seamless integration and change management.

How the SEM suite can help

The SEM digital toolset can be used for strategic forward planning and continuous re-validation supporting continuous adjustment in real operations. Based on your chosen overarching goals, it provides multi-objective optimization to balance the many diverging and often conflicting objectives of the multitude of managed assets for the best possible overall outcome.

Aggregators can:

  • Create and manage virtual power plants, enhancing grid stability and enhance market stacking opportunity with flexibility.
  • Simulate and compare different scenarios for DER performance at scale in relation to market participation.
  • Identify optimal price signals to determine when and where each DER asset can participate in the market for maximum return.

Vendor-neutral and fostering an open ecosystem approach, the SEM digital toolset supports the planning and simulation of many distributed assets and the integration of 3rd party data sources.

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