Equigy 2025 outlook


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Joep Richter
Business Developer
With the start of 2025 Equigy looks ahead at its plans of the coming year, where we will continue expanding our market impact across Europe. This blog provides a brief outlook on the most relevant milestones and key focus areas for the activities of Equigy in 2025, as the ONE COMMON FRONT DOOR strategy will continue to drive the Equigy mission to reduce the technical barriers for DER aggregators to connect to the TSO balancing markets.
Extension of products
One of the key objectives for Equigy in 2025 is the extension of the products available via our Crowd Balancing Platform (CBP). After the successful growth of the CBP market use for aFRR services to TenneT NL, and the launch of aFRR free bids for Austria’s APG, the momentum of product roll-outs on the CBP will continue this year. As already announced in the previous blog about the results of 2024, there will be a significant push by Equigy to bring the aFRR product live on the CBP for all the Equigy TSO’s in the coming 2 years. This will allow the pan-European market parties on the CBP to easily connect to multiple TSO balancing markets via the single CBP interface. In addition to the aFRR product, the mFRR product is scheduled to become active in at least one market as well. This will mark a true achievement in the ONE COMMON FRONT DOOR strategy, as it makes different balancing products in several countries accessible via the singe CBP interface.
Release our common data model
An essential element in making the access across the various markets easier is having a common model which supports the alignment of the different interfaces to these markets (ONE COMMON FRONT DOOR). Based on this common model, Equigy will release a common data model to the market, defining the data exchanges for the TSO balancing services covered by the CBP. So as part of the planned product roll-outs, Equigy will provide the market with a comprehensive specification that provides market parties access to all connected markets on the CBP. This will allow potential DER aggregators the opportunity to prepare their data exchange setup for balancing services across all CBP connected markets.
Support in implementing NC-DR
In parallel to Equigy’s efforts to increase the participation of DER resources on the TSO balancing markets, there is the upcoming new European wide directive of the Network Code on Demand Response (NC-DR). This directive is planned to be finalized in the first half of 2025 and the ONE COMMON FRONT DOOR strategy of Equigy concurs to a great extend with the NC-DR objective. Because the NC-DR also aims at supporting the participation of aggregators in all European energy markets by making it easier for these parties to access the TSO balancing markets and local markets.
With the CBP having gathered a relevant share in the actual balancing of the Dutch electricity grid, combined with the potential role Equigy could have in the implementation of the NC-DR for TSOs, the market relevance of Equigy is increasing. The main drivers of why Equigy will continue to grow its market penetration further are twofold. Primarily, the CBP provides new market parties access to the TSO balancing markets, resulting in added market liquidity, and CO2 reductions for balancing the grid for TSOs. This is substantiated by the 2024 results in the Dutch aFRR market, where the market parties on the CBP account for approximately 20% of the activated balancing energy. Secondly, due to the upcoming comprehensive changes required to the TSO markets from the NC-DR, for which Equigy has a unique position to fulfill some of these requirements. By making use of the CBP and allowing further utilization of the data related potential of the platform, Equigy can play a key role in implementing some of the NC-DR requirements.
Concluding, 2025 will prove to be a decisive year for TSO’s and many market parties, we are determined to realise all the above plans successfully in the coming year.
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