The flexibility market

The power grid of the future is now being built at Utsira. The idea is to take advantage of available flexibility and make the power grid smarter. The use of available flexibility is an alternative to online investments. In addition, it creates new opportunities for increased integration of more renewable energy in the grid.

The grid companies can buy spare capacity from electricity customers when consumption overloads the electricity grid. At Utsira, Haugaland Kraft has piloted a solution where consumer flexibility and flexibility from batteries are sold to the grid company via a marketplace and thus the grid company saves on investments. A digital platform, based on cloud technology, can with the help of advanced analysis and machine learning take advantage of the flexibility found in the web, says

Through the project at Utsira, Haugaland Kraft wants to demonstrate that they are able to balance supply and demand in real time. They make the power system and power markets smarter, flexible and adaptable.