Flexibility

Beyond the environmental commitment that benefits the image of these electricity consumers, it’s also a financial opportunity. By agreeing to participate and to switch off on
days of high grid stress at RTE’s request, industrial and commercial customers can diversify their income by obtaining, in return, an annual remuneration (in €/MW) and an activation premium (in €/Mwh) for each switching-off operation carried out.

These days of high grid stress are days on which power system players, such as producers, heavy consumers or operators with storage assets, are on standby in case RTE calls on them to secure the electricity supply.

These tailored solutions enable them to generate additional income by making the energy stored in these batteries available to the grid. An ideal partnership to help balance the grid, while making storage structures profitable.

To encourage the development of renewable energies, while at the same time helping to balance the power grid, flexibilities are proving to be an ingenious solution for the grid, thanks in particular to tools such as dispatchable generation plants, interconnections, electricity storage and consumption curtailment through process modulation or self-generation.