Energy Trading
A powerful proving ground for our machine learning models.
We’re using energy trading to iterate on our machine learning models while building towards our larger battery optimization system.
Connecting Batteries
to Energy Trading
In wholesale electricity markets, power plants can only move energy in or out of the grid based on the energy trades that they’ve made.
Grid-scale batteries—the fastest growing type of power plant—are no exception to the rule. Ultimately, battery optimization is just energy trading, but with a physical battery connected to the grid.
The Proving Ground:
A Real Electricity Market
Electricity markets have both a physical and financial component:
Financial: All power plants and utilities place bids for energy, specifying a price and quantity
Physical: Based on the financial bids that clear in the market, physical power is dispatched
Our model places standalone energy bids in the financial side of electricity market, then learns and improves itself based on the results.
How It Works
Unlike existing approaches to energy optimization, our machine learning system teaches itself how to optimally trade energy at a specific location in the grid, then self-adjusts its strategy as the grid changes—all on its own.
The future of energy grid is highly dynamic, and the future of energy optimization is self-adapting. We’re making static, model-based solvers a thing of the past.
Certified and
Operational in CAISO ✓
In fall of 2023, we completed our certification as a Scheduling Coordinator in California (CAISO), allowing us to start to bid with our model in a real wholesale electricity market.
Building on this pilot, we have plans to expand our energy trading to other ISOs in 2025.
Accelerating Towards Our Self-Optimizing Battery System
With constant learnings from our models in a real electricity market, we’re now one step closer to developing our larger, more complex model to optimize physical battery power plants in the grid.
Come Solve Climate Change with Us
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