Powernaut

Powernaut is the operating system for energy flexibility, helping energy retailers and independent power producers (IPPs) connect to and orchestrate customers' smart energy assets such as solar panels (PV), batteries, electric vehicles (EVs), and heat pumps. They enable real-time optimisation to reduce grid stress, lower costs, and share profits with end-customers via their energy bills.

Why? Europe’s energy transition is being built from the bottom up. Millions of solar panels, home batteries, EVs, heat pumps, and HVAC systems are being installed every year across households, SMEs, and commercial sites. Uncoordinated, these assets create grid imbalance. Coordinated, they become one of the most powerful flexibility resources available to energy markets. That coordination gap is the problem Powernaut solves.

What Powernaut does:

  • Device connectivity: API-first integrations with 60+ OEM brands and EMS providers, no hardware or on-site installation required.
  • Asset optimization: AI-driven forecasting, AI agentic portfolio management, aggregation, and control at both household and portfolio level.
  • Algorithmic trading: built-in ETRM tools that automatically steer decentralized assets across energy markets.
  • Flexibility monetization: demand response at scale with automated billing, cutting imbalance costs across your entire portfolio.
  • For whom: Built for energy retailers, utilities, and Independent Power Producers across Europe.

Case study

Solar, BESS Netherlands

When IPPs go merchant

Customer

DSG

The situation

As PPA values eroded and the Dutch grid buckled under congestion, DSG’s assets were effectively running blind: generating power, but unable to capture the merchant upside that the market was demanding, exposed across a 350MW portfolio of co-located solar and BESS. Scattered connectivity, fragmented platforms, and manual processes blocked market access and the revenue their assets could produce.

What was built

Powernaut’s VPP workspace unifies all assets under one platform with integrated connectivity through the Teleport, real time optimisation, and automated trading across day ahead, intraday, and balancing markets.

The result

  • DSG successfully achieved a scalable platform for managing of all its PV and BESS assets into a workspace.
  • DSG combines monitoring, steering, and optimisation operations across all assets.
  • Increased capture rates and automatic trading resulted in €4M new revenue beyond PPAs. 8 month payback. Capture rate up 23%.

"We trust Powernaut to steer our 350MW portfolio because of unparalleled market understanding."

Maurice Schoenmakers

CEO of DSG

Interested in working with Powernaut?

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