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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.

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