June 9, 2021Press Release: TenneT and GreenCom Networks want to unlock flexibility potential of households

Press Release: TenneT and GreenCom Networks want to unlock flexibility potential of households to manage bottlenecks in the power grid.   A pilot project plans to answer questions such as how decentralised energy producers, consumers and storage systems can alleviate bottlenecks in the power grid Virtual platform brings together and manages test customers Integration of decentralized plants v…

March 31, 2021Press Release: First citizens’ initiative using crowd balancing platform Equigy

Press Release: First citizens’ initiative using crowd balancing platform Equigy will help grid operator TenneT meet challenges of energy transition   Arnhem, 31 March, 2021 – The citizens’ energy cooperative project centres around a large 1 MW battery located near a solar park at the edge of Heeten, a village in the province of Overijssel in the Netherlands. With this battery, the 3.5-hectare…

December 17, 2020Press Release: Equigy cracks open flexibility in energy market to speed up green transition

Press Release: Equigy cracks open flexibility in energy market to speed up green transition. Energy platform Equigy pulls in new partners, launches groundbreaking projects. December 17, 2020 – Crowd balancing platform Equigy is off to a flying start. Three of Europe’s leading Transmission System Operators (TSOs) are working with OEM partners (such as electric vehicle makers, energy companies, and…

December 11, 2020Engie & TenneT: enhance delivering aFRR with different types of flexible capacity

Engie & TenneT: enhance delivering aFRR with different types of flexible capacity.   The successful realisation of the energy transition requires new (decentralized) sources that can offer flexibility, such as batteries, wind and solar energy, industrial installations or cogeneration. Through suppliers or a so-called ‘aggregator’, this flexibility is made available to grid operators who n…

October 20, 2020Equigy crowd balancing platform presented to Mrs Kadri Simson, the EU commissioner of Energy

On October 13, CEO’s and senior executives from Swissgrid, Terna, TenneT and Equigy presented the Equigy crowd balancing platform to Mrs Kadri Simson, the EU commissioner of Energy. The platform will facilitate the Energy Transition by unlocking distributed flexibilities in the energy balancing markets throughoutEurope. In the meeting, some potential challenges were discussed that have to be overc…

September 10, 2020Equigy addressing the regulatory obstacles for unlocking the full distributed flexibility potential

In this paper, Equigy addresses the key regulatory changes needed to scale up the use of distributed flexibility sources in the balancing markets. Equigy’s founding TSOs drafted this white paper in close collaboration with European industry. Equigy and its shareholding TSOs will together push for new regulatory and legal measures, aimed at attracting more distributed flexibility sources into the b…

April 22, 2020European TSOs platform unlocks flexibility of consumer-based devices, electric vehicles

In an important step forward for the energy transition, some of Europe’s biggest Transmission System Operators (TSOs) are collaborating on a new blockchain-based platform, enabling the integration of small and distributed consumer-based units into the electricity-balancing process. Owners of consumer devices, electric vehicles for example, can earn money making “flexible” their interaction with th…