energy

Demand-side flexibility: the grid asset hiding in your customers' basements

Every heat pump, EV charger, and home battery in Europe is already a grid asset. Most of them are just not aggregated, not addressable, and not paid. The companies that crack the aggregation layer in the next three years will own a category that does not have a name yet.

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Balancing markets, explained for software builders

If you are building anything that touches the grid, you will run into FCR, aFRR, mFRR, BRPs, and BSPs within your first three meetings with a utility. The terminology sounds designed to keep software people out. The mechanics are simpler than a Stripe webhook flow.

6 min read

Dynamic tariff customers are supposed to tune out. Ours open the app 23 times a month.

The conventional wisdom is that dynamic tariff customers check the app out of novelty and then forget it exists. Pstryk's data says the opposite. Here is what real engagement looks like and what it means for how you build.

6 min read

EMS architecture: when local control beats the cloud round trip

An EMS that round-trips every decision through the cloud is going to disappoint someone, eventually, in a way that costs real money. The right split between edge and cloud is a latency budget question, and once you frame it that way the architecture writes itself.

8 min read