Electrical flexibility
When controlled at the right time, your e-boiler or heat pump does more than just heat your home: it becomes a flexibility asset that generates income for you.
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What is electrical flexibility ?
Electrical flexibility is a response to the growing intermittency of renewable electricity generation. When solar or wind generation exceeds demand, electricity becomes surplus, carbon-free and cheap, sometimes even at a negative price.
Flexibility involves modulating, shifting or optimising certain electrical uses (industrial processes, heating, cooling and pumping systems, etc.) in line with these variations and the heat storage capacity in place. This capacity is monetised through load shedding or energy optimisation mechanisms, whilst helping to maintain the stability of the electricity grid and facilitating the integration of renewable energy sources.
How can you benefit from electrical flexibility with ?
There are two main mechanisms for monetising your electricity flexibility.
- Optimisation on the spot market: you increase your consumption when the price of electricity is low or negative, and reduce it when it rises, thereby buying your electricity more cheaply .
- The aFRR secondary reserve (regulation frequency): your installation is registered with RTE, which may request an adjustment to your consumption to maintain grid balance. You are paid for this availability, whether it is activated or not.
An optimised control system monitors market prices and signals from RTE in real time. It automatically activates an e-boiler or heat pump to convert electricity into heat when conditions are most favourable, based on your current and future consumption. This heat is stored and then released as and when you need it.
When should electrical flexibility be used?
Electrical flexibility is available to any industrial facility or district heating network with a significant heat requirement.
Customer benefits
How you benefit from taking part in electricity flexibility
Reduce your gas consumption
By generating heat from low-carbon electricity at the most favourable times, you directly replace fossil gas and reduce your Scope 1 emissions.
Control your heating costs
You buy electricity when it is the cheapest of your heating sources, thereby reducing your heating costs.
Generate additional income
By taking part in the flexibility schemes (aFRR secondary reserve), you are paid for your availability, whether or not you are called upon.
Can your electric heating equipment generate income for you?
NEWHEAT’S SUPPORT
Newheat integrates an electrical flexibility solution into your system
Newheat develops, finances, builds and operates electricity flexibility solutions for industrial clients and district heating networks. We manage market access and the automated control of your equipment, either throughout the entire project or for a specific phase.
Design and market access
We assess your installation and its potential for flexibility, and provide you with access to revenue-generating mechanisms: load shedding, spot markets and the aFRR secondary reserve. Based on this analysis, we design and size the system (power output, storage capacity) to maximise the revenue it will be able to generate over the course of the project.
Management, operation and maintenance
We deploy and operate monitoring systems that optimise automatically the consumption of your equipment in line with market prices and RTE signals. We provide operational support throughout the contract period. You receive heat and flexibility revenues, without having to manage the infrastructure.
How much could you save on your gas bill ?
Newheat provides you with renewable heat that is cheaper than your current solution, with a price indexed to the market of your choice: electricity, biomass or a sectoral index. This allows you to maintain control over your costs and competitiveness. We can support you at whatever stage you need, from development through to the operation of the plant.
