Emergency power gensets
Benefits instead of costs from your emergency power generator
Emergency power generators often have an untapped source of income: By generating electricity at short notice that can be used to stabilise the power grid. As the operator of one of the largest virtual power plants in Europe, we offer you the opportunity to provide control energy with your emergency power generator and thus turn a cost factor into an additional source of income. And all this without any additional effort or investment costs.
Reserve Power
Sell reserve power from your emergency genset(s)
Fluctuations in the electricity grid are increasing due to the fluctuating supply of wind and solar energy. If, for example, the current electricity consumption exceeds the electricity production, this must be compensated by capacity reserves - so-called positive control energy. Your emergency power generator can easily supply such capacity reserves, provided it has a minimum output of 250 kW and can run synchronous with the grid frequency.
Additional revenues: You achieve attractive revenues with your emergency generator and thus turn a cost factor into a source of income.
Service-oriented: We take care of the connection of your emergency power to the virtual power plant and carry out the test procedure for the control energy, the prequalification, for you.
Safety: Your genset continues to serve its primary function, of course. Emergency operation always takes precedence over control energy calls.
Restrictions: You can also limit the operating hours of your genset to a defined call time per year.
Tertiary reserve capacity balances the fluctuations of the network after a delay of 15 minutes. The TSO measures the frequency and places commands to call capacities. In order to this, your genset(s) have to react latest 15 minutes after the activation signal. As most emergency gensets have a starting time of only a few seconds this should be no problem. The network operator Elia buys two different mFRR products: R3 standard and R3 flex. The first can be activated for up to 8 hours per day, while the second can be activated for maximum 2 hours continuously – between two activations there has to be a pause of at least 12 hours. The grid operator pays a capacity fee for both products, but only the R3 standard entitles the grid operator to an energy fee.
My Power Plant
Always up to date via app and PC
My Power Plant is our customer portal that you can use on your PC or via app on your smartphone. In the customer portal, you can view and manage the status of your emergency generator, edit data, and download invoices.
Calls: You can be notified about reserve power calls of your emergency generator.
Fault notification: In the event of faults, you will also receive notifications via the app on request.
Maintenance times: You can conveniently register maintenance and repair times via the portal.
Numbers & Facts
Aggregated Units
15 346
Q4/2022Networked Capacity
12 294
MW Q4 2022Volume of traded energy
15.1
TWh in 2019Employees
300
Locations
9
Foundation
2009
Next PoolAll services under one roof
Next Kraftwerke brings all the experts together under one roof to successfully market your emergency power: our engineers, technicians and negotiators work closely with our sales and customer service team to ensure the best possible results in the electricity market.
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Reserve Power Trading - 24/7
We trade the reserve power of your emergency power generators around the clock and seven days a week - with all our experience and our technical background. We use the data from each plant of the virtual power plant for our forecasts. Together with the forecasts of our in-house meteorologist we achieve a particularly efficient reserve power marketing.
David Schmich, Team Lead Portfoliomanagement and Origination
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We advise you on location
We come to you: We advise you personally and individually on all questions concerning the tradingof electricity and reserve power from your CHP. We analyse your marketing options and revenue potential and find a tailor-made way to sell your electricity.
Paul Kreutzkamp, CEO Next Kraftwerke Belgium
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We take care of your business
At our customer service department, you do not end up in either queue. Our service is competent and personalized. We deal with your requests quickly and uncomplicatedly, whether it concerns communication with the network operator or billing issues. For all technical questions, our technical service is at your disposal.
Asma Beheshti, Operations Manager
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We connect your genset to the Virtual Power Plant
Our experienced team of technicians and engineers will quickly adapt to your requirements and bring your emergency power generator into the virtual power plant. This way you can quickly and easily fulfil the basis for good conditions for marketing your reserve power with us.
Burak Cicekli, Technical Project Manager
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We continuously develop the customer platform further
To ensure that our customer portal "My Power Plant" precisely meets the requirements of the plant operators, it was completely designed and implemented in-house by our development team. This also enables us to continuously integrate new features and further develop "My Power Plant" so that our customers can derive the greatest possible benefit from it.
Jonas Fluhr, Head of IT Systems and Services
