Energy trading & the balancing market

Turn your energy assetsinto an automated profit engine.

Stop letting your battery sit idle. Evogrid autonomously trades your energy flexibility across all markets—turning idle storage into a continuous revenue stream. Maximum profit, zero risk to your core operations.

The stakes

Energy value is constantly shifting. You're leaving money on the table.

Electricity has no fixed value; prices swing constantly. They shift hourly on the EPEX day-ahead market and every 15 minutes on the imbalance market. Without intelligent control, your battery charges at the wrong time and sits empty when market prices peak.

Manually trading these price spikes is impossible—the market moves far faster than humanly possible. Evogrid acts as your automated trading floor, operating your assets as one intelligent microgrid and trading 24/7 in the background. Zero intervention required.

The solution

Capitalize on the market spread.

One trading day · €/MWh

three markets

day-aheadintradayEGOS tradescharging window
EPEX day-ahead & intradaycharging windowcharge · €22sell · €172imbalance (TenneT) · quarter-hourly€0dispatch · €38000:0012:0024:00

trough → peak

€22 → 172

imbalance peak

€380

manual work

none

One trading day across three markets: charging in the trough, selling at the peak and stepping in on the imbalance market every fifteen minutes.

EPEX Day-Ahead, Intraday & Imbalance

The platform operates simultaneously across all three markets, identifying exactly where your flexibility yields the highest return second by second.

  • Day-ahead: strategically plan charging and discharging cycles a day in advance based on known hourly prices. Buy low, sell high.
  • Intraday: if market conditions shift suddenly, active bids are revised instantly to capture emerging value.
  • Imbalance: respond automatically to grid shortages and surpluses every 15 minutes—where the highest financial returns are typically found.

Sunny day · market & solar farm

negative prices

market pricesolar farm potentialcontrolled by EGOS
market price · €/MWhnegative · 11:00–16:00€0battery charges · −€62sell at peak · €142solar farm · % of capacitycurtailment→ battery00:0012:0024:00

charged at

−€62

sold at peak

€142

loss on generation

€0

Sunny day with negative afternoon prices: the battery charges at a negative rate and the solar farm is temporarily ramped down (curtailment).

Smart with negative prices

On highly productive sunny or windy days, energy prices regularly collapse—sometimes dropping below zero.

When market prices turn negative, Evogrid automatically curtails your solar inverters or charges your battery at a negative rate (literally getting paid to consume power). You will never pay to give your own generated power away again.

  • Automated solar curtailment during negative market pricing.
  • Store energy when power is free (or profitable to consume).
  • Eliminate financial losses on your own renewable generation.

Capacity allocation · 24 hours

operations come first

own consumptionreserve & peak shavingfree capacity → market
grid limit · 1,800 kW1 · own consumption2 · reserve3 · free capacity → the marketpeak · trading scales back00:0012:0024:00

priority

operations

to market

spare capacity

limit hit

Capacity allocation across the day: own consumption and reserve first; only the free capacity goes to market, and trading scales back at the peak.

Your operation always comes first

Market trading never comes at the expense of your core business. The system operates on a strict, fail-safe hierarchy: your facility's consumption and grid limits always take absolute precedence. Peak shaving, emergency backup, and self-sufficiency are fiercely protected. Only the remaining free capacity is deployed to the market.

Who it's for

Businesses with batteries & flexible assets

Operators with energy storage, EV charging plazas, or controllable industrial loads who want to put their unused capacity to profitable use.

Owners of large-scale generation (solar & wind)

Producers looking to strategically bring their output to market, rather than feeding it back to the grid at fixed, often loss-making rates.

How it works

From data integration to automated execution.

  1. 01

    Data integration & market scanning

    We connect your battery, generation, and flexible loads to live market feeds. The platform continuously scans the markets and forecasts price spreads for the hours ahead.

  2. 02

    Anticipation & strategy

    Our AI algorithm forecasts your site's generation and consumption, weighing it against live market prices to determine the most profitable action every 15 minutes: deliver now, store, or hold.

  3. 03

    Safe execution

    Evogrid sends the optimal setpoints directly to your assets. Transactions are executed fully autonomously—always strictly within your contracted grid limits and holding enough reserve for your own operations.

  4. 04

    Reporting & insight

    A transparent dashboard reveals exactly what your energy flexibility earned per asset, per market, and per hour, updated daily.

What it delivers

The concrete impact of automated market trading.

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Extra returns per asset

Monetize your assets daily on markets where they previously sat idle.

Frequently asked questions

The tough questions first, then the signature.

Autonomous trading on volatile energy markets requires absolute trust. Here are the practical questions we hear most often.

Get started

What could your flexibility earn on the open market?

We model the financial returns of automated market trading using your own assets and show you the exact ROI upfront. The final decision is yours.

No strings attached · Modeled using your actual data · Results within one business day

Control your grid. Monetize your assets.