Energy2market: Largest provider of negative frequency restoration reserve for small systems

Energy2market (e2m) is the leading provider of decentralized negative frequency restoration reserve (FRR) in Germany. This is also confirmed by the Bundeskartellamt’s latest report on the balancing market: no other provider has prequalified more decentralized systems for the provision of negativeFRR. That’s more than just a title – it’s a real advantage for e2m customers.

What is negative frequency restoration reserve?

Negative aFRR means that systems can reduce their feed-in or increase their load at short notice if the grid requires less electricity. It is a key instrument for keeping the grid frequency stable at 50 Hz and ensuring security of supply in an electricity system with a lot of renewable energy.

Energy2market has fundamentally changed access to the balancing energy market: What was previously reserved for large gas and pumped storage power plants is now also possible for smaller plants thanks to e2m. For the first time, biogas CHPs, battery storage and flexible industrial process technologies such as ventilation systems can actively participate in theFRR. The decisive factor here is that they must be technically and regulatory pre-qualified.

Largest prequalified portfolio – a competitive advantage

e2m has prequalified more systems for negativeFRR than any other provider in Germany. This creates tangible advantages:

• Standardized processes for fast market access: e2m ensures a fast, efficient and secure connection through standardized processes, thus creating new economic opportunities for many operators.
• More pool power: The more prequalified systems are in the pool, the greater the bundled power that e2m can offer. This enables reliable and flexible provision of control power, even in the event of outages or maintenance of individual systems.
• Better bundling of flexibility: Different system types and regions ensure high availability and technical redundancy. This reduces pool costs and increases reliability.
• Attractive remuneration for plant operators: A large, technically reliable pool can achieve better revenues on the market because it reliably provides power and can offer it economically efficiently. Larger providers benefit from economies of scale and lower reserve quantities, which has a positive impact on results.

With e2m, small suppliers join forces and operate on an equal footing with the large power plants.

More revenue for e2m customers

The marketing of negativeFRR is a central building block in the flexibility strategy of many operators. It opens up new, predictable additional revenues for biogas and CHP plants, battery storage, CHP, industrial processes and even offshore wind farms. e2m is not only present in the market, but is actively shaping it as a particularly successful player.

Our multi-market approach is consistently geared towards the most valuable market product – often with above-average acceptance rates. By regularly calling on our plants, we generate maximum economic added value and at the same time make an active contribution to grid stability. As part of the critical infrastructure, e2m pool power ensures security of supply in Germany on a daily basis.

e2m market leadership leads to particularly attractive conditions:

• Maximization of operating hours: Thanks to the large pool, we can react flexibly to price movements and make optimum use of the availability of the plants. Depending on the market situation, we shift the energy volumes between the day-ahead, intraday and balancing energy markets and thus achieve higher remuneration throughout the year.
• Lower risk of failure: If an individual system fails, the pool can compensate for this failure. This is because a strong pool not only provides security, but also acts as a unit that is more than the sum of its parts. This means that participation remains reliable and revenues remain stable.
• Professional processing: We take care of prequalification, technical connection, timetables and billing – with more than 10 years of experience in prequalification and state-of-the-art IT.

Securing the energy transition together

Control power is becoming increasingly important the more renewable energies are connected to the grid. Decentralized flexibility is a key component in ensuring security of supply, even in a climate-neutral energy system.

As the largest provider of negative aFRR for small systems in Germany, e2m not only offers technical expertise and market experience, but also the most economically attractive solution for plant operators who want to market their flexibility in the best possible way.

Those who opt for marketing with e2m benefit from:

• Fast, secure and standardized prequalification
• a large, stable balancing energy pool
• Multimarket optimization
• higher revenues

This article is part of a three-part series on the role of decentralized flexibility in the energy transition. Read on to find out why e2m is the first choice for aFRR pre-qualification and how flexibility can be marketed profitably.