Tia

Unleash the flexibility potential of your grid

Introducing Tia, a groundbreaking solution that empowers distribution grid operators to harness demand-side flexibility for optimized grid operations and a sustainable energy supply. With the proliferation of rooftop PV panels and EV chargers causing fluctuating generation and consumption patterns, distribution networks face challenges like temporary over-voltages and overloads.

Tia redefines the energy landscape by leveraging connected devices to enhance network efficiency and unlock untapped value for asset owners.

Built on a powerful Digital Twin real-time load flow engine and advanced grid monitoring capabilities, Tia provides flexibility management functionalities to grid operators, by:

  • Proactively identifying potential capacity constraints.
  • Strategically evaluating available solutions.
  • Opting for the optimal resolution.
  • Swiftly activating flexibility measures.

Flexibility Management

Discover the power of control

Tia serves as our flexibility management tool tailored for distribution network operators, aptly labeled as a grid-aware Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS). While DERMS encompasses various applications, its core function is the integration and coordination of distributed energy within the electrical grid, facilitating dynamic administration.

Utilizing AI forecasting, Tia swiftly identifies and resolves grid asset constraints, offering efficient solutions through market mechanisms or direct control signals. This ensures that the grid operates smoothly and efficiently, adapting to the ever-changing demands and conditions of modern energy systems.

Committed to maximizing flexibility across the entire ecosystem, Tia delivers benefits to network operators, customers, retailers, and aggregators, creating a win-win scenario for all stakeholders.

Key considerations for designing a flexible capacity management solution

The most commonly used sources of flexibility
  • Utility-owned assets with direct control.
  • Bilateral agreements with consumers or generators.
  • Non-firm connections.
  • Local capacity markets.
  • Flexible tariffs.
Our platform optimizes Distribution Grid Operations by facilitating...
  • Instant visibility of available capacity.
  • Short-term capacity prediction.
  • Flexible resource registration and monitoring.
  • Calculation of necessary flexibility to address constraints.
  • Activation of DER flexibility through various channels.

Use Cases

Utility-owned assets with direct control

In regulatory jurisdictions permitting grid operators to own and operate flexible assets like energy storage, tools enabling direct communication and control of these assets are essential.

Bilateral agreements with consumers or generators

Traditional contracting of flexibility services from third parties involves agreements with larger grid customers to adjust consumption or generation upon grid operator signals.

Non-firm connections

Non-firm connections are efficient options for accepting new customers when capacity is limited, but managing numerous connections can become cumbersome. Control of non-firm connections involves monitoring and managing load/generation reductions upon request.

Local capacity markets

Engaging end customers, particularly those with distributed energy resources, requires innovative approaches. Local flexibility markets connect various flexibility providers, including aggregators and traditional bilateral agreements, with grid operators. Plexigrid partners with market providers to offer seamless integrations with market APIs.

Flexible tariffs

Flexible grid tariffs, such as time-of-use and nodal tariffs, indirectly manage flexibility by incentivizing consumption or generation adjustments based on time and location.

Dynamic operating envelopes

Bilateral agreements can provide setpoints for consumption or generation. Dynamic Operating Envelopes, for example, enable grid operators to define export limits ahead of time and communicate them to aggregators responsible for controlling rooftop solar panels.

e-Tia

A Holistic Demand Response System that Maximizes the Value of Flexibility for Society

Built on Plexigrid’s holistic demand response technology, e-Tia is the only demand response system in the market that allows aggregators, retailers and other energy players to address and capture 100% of the flexibility value along the full value chain (production-transmission-distribution-consumption) of any electricity system.

By resolving network congestions and load peaks with flexibility instead of resolving them with capacity upgrades, DSOs can save hundreds of millions of Euros in CAPEX. Plexigrid’s e-Tia technology is unique in its ability to address this value pool, which accounts for about 50% of the flexibility value in an electricity system. e-Tia enabled retailers can literally double the addressed flex value pool of their customers.

For Energy Retailers and Aggregators

Value Stacking Flexibility Services

By adding e-Tia to their technology ecosystem, energy retailers can offer their customers maximum value for their flexibility through unique flex tariffs and products that monetize the customers’ full- flexibility in multiple markets and with all flexibility counterparts”, including:

  • Participation in ancillary services markets with TSOs and DSO
  • Enabling DSOs to optimize grid capacity through flexibility
  • Pool price optimization with NEMOs (Nominated Energy Market Operators)

Most aggregators’ functionalities include pool price optimization with NEMOs and standard ancillary services with DSOs/TSOs, but exclude the potential value from grid optimization. This value stream accounts for about 50% of the total flex value of their customers. Plexigrid’s e-Tia technology allows aggregators to unleash this value pool.

 

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