Virtual Power Plant

What is actually a Virtual Power Plant? Our video explains in 90 seconds how the software connects decentralized units to a single controllable portfolio which can be efficiently integrated into electricity markets and grids.

emsys VPP is a pioneer in the development of Virtual Power Plants and is one of the world's leading suppliers today. Our sophisticated software monitors and remote-controls in real-time distributed energy resources with a total capacity of several gigawatts, pulling maximum value from their consumption and generation on power markets and for a smart grid management. The Virtual Power Plant digitally connects renewable and conventional energy sources as well as various types of storage systems and demand-side resources. Thus we turn distributed energy resources into a single power pool whose generation you can flexibly adjust to grid requirements or trade profitably on international spot, intraday and balancing power markets. In addition, the Virtual Power Plant covers the new grid management (Redispatch 2.0) processes with a focus on the role of the dispatcher.

Power traders, aggregators, energy providers and grid operators already control thousands of distributed energy resources with our trend-setting technology. Our Virtual Power Plant is used in many international markets and can be flexibly adapted to the requirements of electricity markets, users and existing IT infrastructure.

We are your partner for setting up your Virtual Power Plant

Our company provides you with a customized all-in-one solution: We support you in all steps to build your individual Virtual Power Plant, from plant connection to remote control and trading of the power generated from your portfolio.

We make sure that all the necessary plant data are integrated into your Virtual Power Plant: real-time data and availability of the plants, wind and solar power forecasts, consumption data and electricity market data. As a leading provider of power forecasts, our partner company energy & meteo systems predicts the power schedules for wind and solar parks which we integrate into the Virtual Power Plant. You capture all fundamental events – production and consumption processes as well as power forecasts – at a glance and can concentrate fully on managing your power plants.

Since our technology works as a Software-as-a-Service solution, there is no need for your own IT infrastructure. emsys VPP configures your Virtual Power Plant according to your requirements and, if required, our technical 24/7 support also takes over the hosting and operation. With our vast market and IT experience we support you personally in all questions regarding the integration, control and trading of renewable energies.

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Business models and applications

Leading energy providers, power traders, aggregators and grid operators put their trust in our fully developed and reliable technology for their use case or business model with distributed energy resources.

• Easily monitor your power portfolios: With our Virtual Power Plant, you can monitor real-time production and forecast data for all connected units on one single screen – from individual assets, regional or technology-specific sub-portfolios to the entire portfolio consisting of thousands of solar and wind power plants.
• The VPP is ideal for trading of wind and solar power, conventional power plants, storage systems and flexible loads at the spot, intraday and balancing power markets, including a smart and reliable remote control of your assets. In Germany and in many European markets the VPP has emerged as the state-of-the art software.
• The VPP allows Demand side management with flexible electricity consumers for an active load management.
• Demand response to benefit from dynamic electricity prices.
• Grid operators can use the VPP as a control center for feed-in management of renewables and to control wind and solar parks remotely.

Trading electricity from solar, wind, storage systems and other distributed energy resources

With our Virtual Power Plant, we offer you a smart software solution that allows you to concentrate entirely on trading renewable energies and storage systems on spot, intraday and balancing energy markets. We support you in digitally connecting your own or third parties' distributed energy resources (wind and solar power plants, storage systems, further generating technologies) to your individual Virtual Power Plant to create a single dispatchable portfolio. This way, you are able to centrally monitor, forecast, remote-control and trade in real-time the portfolio's power production and avoid balancing group deviations.

Many power traders from leading aggregators and utilities have been relying on our sophisticated technology for years to extract maximum value from their portfolios. 

"For us, the Virtual Power Plant by energy & meteo systems is the most important IT system in the trading of renewable electricity." – MVV Energie

Providing balancing power services

With our unique Virtual Power Plant (VPP) software, we offer a proven solution for providing balancing energy to power systems. Controlled by our VPP, solar and wind power plants as well as other distributed energy resources (DER) can reliably supply different balancing products, such as primary (FCR), secondary (aFRR) and minute reserve (mFRR) to balancing markets. This opens up an additional stream of revenues for your energy portfolio.

Based on a real-time connection with your plants and integrated power forecasts, the Virtual Power Plant intelligently orchestrates decentralized power generation to ensure a defined flexibility. Due to its capability to automatically and precisely throttle power production for defined time intervals our SaaS solution can offer for example negative reserve from wind parks to balance overproduction in the power system.

There are no limits to the number or size of plants providing balancing services since our software is designed to manage large DER portfolios.

Complete IT solution for providing balancing energy

The Virtual Power Plant covers crucial processes of the entire value chain of the balancing energy market. This includes modelling of the connected plants, provision of required prequalification documents, a web portal for a fluent communication with plant operators up to balancing group management and revenue accounting.

Our comprehensive solution also includes the required technical standards to reliably communicate with transmission system operators and the connected plants. All connections meet or exceed the highest safety requirements.

emsys VPP customizes the Virtual Power Plant to meet your specific needs and to comply with individual market requirements.

Our VPP operates in international balancing markets

Being a globally leading VPP provider, our software solution has been in use by renowned energy companies for many years in international markets. Currently operational Virtual Power Plants provide balancing power with different technologies, including biogas, biomass, gas-fired power plants, wind parks, lithium-ion batteries and industrial loads.

Flexibility trading from large portfolios

Our Virtual Power Plant enables numerous applications and business models with distributed energy resources. This includes trading flexibilities by connecting solar and wind parks with other power generation technologies (biogas, hydropower, conventional power plants), storage systems and energy consumers.

By adding dispatchable generators, storage and variable loads, flexibilities are raised that can be traded on day-ahead and intraday markets or used for demand side management applications.

As a smart control room, the Virtual Power Plant supports you in utilizing your flexibilities by optimally orchestrating production, storage and consumption processes of all connected units.

Would you like to learn more about the flexible field of applications of our Virtual Power Plant?

Please give us a call: Tel. +49 441 212 120 or mail@emsysvpp.de

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