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Optimize your wind earnings with curtailment

Wind energy is powerful, but unpredictability in the energy market can turn that power into a liability. During negative price periods, generating excess electricity could mean paying to produce — turning profit into loss.

Curtailment is the key to unlocking control over your wind turbines, letting you strategically pause production and protect your earnings.

What is curtailment?

As renewable energy adoption grows, so does the challenge of excess energy production. In markets like the Netherlands, this often leads to negative energy prices, where producers have to pay to feed excess power into the grid.

Negative prices can directly impact the profitability of wind installation. To prevent this, curtailment is used as a solution.

Curtailment means temporarily reducing or shutting down your wind production when the energy market is unfavorable — like during periods of negative (day-ahead or imbalance) prices.

Instead of losing money, you or your energy trader can strategically pause your wind generation to protect your bottom line.

With the right tools to control automatically your wind turbines, curtailment becomes an effortless strategy to optimize your earnings.

Should I apply curtailment?
Calculate your potential savings

Use the calculator below to estimate the financial return of curtailment.

Get started with curtailment:
Install the Teleport, your local controller

Get your Teleport

Meet the Teleport

Allows automated curtailment by yourself or your energy trader

Connects to any brand of wind turbine, including yours

Ensures your data security with industry-leading standards (ISO 27001 Certified, approved by Netbeheer Nederlands)

The Teleport

Take advantage of the best energy prices

You or your energy trader can use the Teleport to steer your wind installation to the best energy prices. With the EPEX and imbalance markets combined, customers achieved an average additional profit of several thousands per year per MWp.

No hassle, benefit immediately

From installation to use, we’re here to help. Our promise is simple: if something doesn’t work as expected, we will make sure it is fixed quickly. From our streamlined operation, we now control hundreds of solar parks and wind turbines.

Future-proof your energy business

The Teleport is built to grow with a changing energy market. It easily integrates with new assets (such as batteries), new market opportunities (aFRR, FCR), service providers, regulations (Realtime Interface) or contracts (CBC contracts).

Protect your grid limits

Avoid fines or feed-in restrictions by staying within your contracted grid capacity. The Teleport ensures your wind production aligns with grid requirements, keeping everything compliant without the need for manual adjustments.

Our clients’ perspective:

Vandebron is a Dutch energy supplier that offers 100% green electricity sourced from local renewable energy, aiming to make the energy market more sustainable, transparent, and fair.

Withthegrid helps them meet the need for smart control of several assets, including wind turbines, through the Teleport.

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Steijn van der Zwaag

Business Developer Energy Services at Vandebron

“Vandebron aims to be able to flexibly control more and more renewable resources, but this sometimes brings new technical challenges. Thanks to the fine cooperation [with Withthegrid], we were quickly able to realize a reliable technical solution to remotely control Enercon wind turbines and thus contribute to a more stable and sustainable energy system.”

Ready to optimize your wind production?

Want to discuss your curtailment project? Or learn more about the Teleport?
Let’s start the conversation. Fill out the form below, and our team will get back to you within one business day.

Contact info

E-mail

info@withthegrid.com

Phone

+31 (0)8 57 99 01 45

Address

Dotslash Utrecht – Campus, Europalaan 400, 3526 KS Utrecht, Netherlands

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