Gridual

Transparent behind-the-meter industrial battery optimization that maximizes total energy value through balancing of self-consumption, peak shaving, and market trading.

Active in

🇧🇪 Belgium 🇳🇱 Netherlands

Gridual is a battery optimizer grounded in academic research conducted during the founders’ PhDs at KU Leuven. Their new forecasting methods prioritize profit over accuracy and lead to 25% higher battery value compared to conventional techniques.

What differentiates Gridual is their transparency and asset-level optimization. They provide customers with a clear view of how optimization affects every component of their electricity bill, not just market revenues. At the same time, their optimization engine is tailored to each individual site, using local consumption and production forecasts alongside electricity tariff structures to capture the optimal mix of self-consumption, peak reduction, and market trading opportunities. Their algorithms re-evaluate this every minute of every day.

Gridual align their business model with their clients’ needs by charging a share of the net value created including all costs. While they have a big focus on battery assets, their optimization supports other assets including PV, wind and EV charging.

Finally, Gridual also provide analyses of optimal asset dimensioning based on local context and price forecasts for optimal investment decisions.

Case study

BESS, PV

Behind-the-meter battery optimization

The situation

420 kVA / 850 kWh BESS with 400 kVA PV, industrial site with load peaks of up to 300 kW.

The client had very low returns from their battery investment through their energy supplier applying a portfolio optimization in the imbalance market. They saw that (i) the battery did very little cycles and (ii) didn’t adjust to local consumption and load profiles.

What was built

Gridual’s local optimization now anticipates the client’s profiles and proactively uses the battery to self-consume while also chasing arbitrage opportunities in both day-ahead and balancing market.

The result

Battery profit on electricity bill increased with more than 50%, and self consumption increased with more than 100%.

Interested in working with Gridual?

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