
Balancing group management & portfolio management
Individually tailored to your needs
With our in-house electricity trading and many years of experience as a balancing group manager, we offer you suitable solutions for your balancing group management and portfolio management - from marketing your residual profile to complete balancing group management.

Balancing group management
Remaining in balance despite increased requirements
The authorities' requirements for balancing group management have increased significantly in recent years. For example, the obligation to manage balancing groups to the nearest quarter of an hour is being pursued more and more strictly. Thanks to our access to intraday markets and many years of know-how as balancing group managers, we can effectively relieve you.
Full-Service: On request, we take over the complete balancing group management for you - taking into account all BRP requirements - including portfolio risks.
Guaranteed performance: We guarantee quarterly accurate balancing group management in accordance with all guidelines and regulations.
Safe implementation: In energy data management, we ensure the plausibility of your feed and extraction data and prepare them for further processing.
Communication inclusive: We take care of communication with the respective balancing group coordinator - taking into account the obligatory data transmission procedures.
24 hours availability: We guarantee 24-hour availability for timetable communication. In the event that the TSO reports an error in our timetable data or those of our trading partners, we can react immediately and make corrections if necessary.

When you hand over your balancing group management to us, it not only relieves you of activities that are not part of your actual core business. We also reduce your risks for an unbalanced balancing group: prices on the continuous intraday market vary greatly. With our 24/7 electricity trading, we can compensate for over- or under-supply of your portfolio up to 5 minutes before the delivery quarter hour. In this way, we also smooth out your balancing group in quarter-hours and thus reduce your balancing energy risks enormously. In the event of schedule inconsistencies, our experienced timetable management team will solve the problem and communicate directly with the transmission system operators or balancing group coordinators.
Portfolio management
Precise forecasting, targeted readjustment
In portfolio management, we adjust two important levers for you: First, we optimize your generation and consumption forecasts by including as much meaningful data as possible in the forecast. On the following day we will then bring together the timetables that have been forecasted and implemented. Through the short-term trading of required or surplus quantities of electricity on the intraday market, we reliably smooth out your balancing group. The result: Your balancing energy risks decrease, your balance group loyalty increases.
Accurate forecasts: You benefit from precise forecasts based on meaningful data - regardless of whether your load profile is measured by automated meter reading (AMR) or predicted using a standard load profile (SLP).
Coordination with TSO: We coordinate the forecasted and finally realized timetables in the timetable management with the responsible TSO.
Short-term compensation: Thanks to our 24/7 electricity trading and access to intraday trading, we bring together your forecast and realised schedules in a dynamic process - this saves you work and additional balancing energy costs.
Individualized procurement strategies: On request, we develop individualized procurement strategies together with you.

We make up for any shortfalls or surpluses resulting from your power plant deployment planning with our quarter-hourly procurement on the EPEX SPOT power exchange. Through the short-term trading of required or surplus electricity volumes on the day-ahead and intraday auctions as well as the continuous intraday market of the electricity exchange, Next Kraftwerke smoothes out your balancing group - which reduces your balancing energy risks and increases the quality of your portfolio management.

NEXTRA
The trading platform
NEXTRA is our trading platform, which you can use entirely according to your needs. If we take over your balancing group management, NEXTRA provides you with an overview of the activities carried out for you as a practical monitoring tool.
Data and forecasts: You can view forecasts that are individually tailored to you.
Balance your balancing group: Balance your balancing group directly via NEXTRA.
Place order: On the platform you can directly place your order for the intraday auction.
Numbers & Facts
Aggregated Units
15 346
Q4/2022Networked Capacity
12 294
MW Q4 2022Volume of traded energy
15.1
TWh in 2019Employees
254
Locations
9
Foundation
2009
Next PoolWe are Next Kraftwerke
As a certified electricity trader, we open the door to the day-ahead and intraday markets of the electricity exchange EPEX Spot, to the balancing energy market of the transmission system operators and to other international electricity markets. Our traders are active here every day to support and relieve you in your energy management tasks. By the way: We are not interwoven with the structures of the old energy industry - this way you retain your own profile and strategic independence when working with us.