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AI-powered Point is the award-winning technology platform for managing distributed and flexible energy resources. It connects operational, generation and storage assets to manage your energy flexibility automatically, transforming your energy into opportunity. The GridBeyond Point platform is split into 3 distinct areas: TouchPoint, CentrePoint and ViewPoint. Read more about how each element works below…
TouchPoint
TouchPoint sits on your site and is either physically or wirelessly connected to your assets. Through the installation of our proprietary hardware, TouchPoint, our platform is connected to your on-site assets. It sends and receives data, enabling control of assets in real time.
CentrePoint
CentrePoint is the cloud-based platform that sits at the heart of Gridbeyond’s artificial intelligence and machine learning our technology. CentrePoint analyses over 70 data sources, and uses AI, machine-learning and robotic trading to automatically place your energy flexibility in the programmes that generate the best returns.
ViewPoint
ViewPoint is your window to your energy activity. ViewPoint not only shows your programmes, revenues, savings and trades, but it also provides data on each of your assets supporting you with energy and carbon reporting and energy efficiency while ensuring asset health and availability is maintained.
Here’s a step by step guide to how GridBeyond Point delivers enhanced energy services to organisations and stakeholders, for financial, operational and sustainable benefit…
Every business has energy assets, whether its generation, storage or industrial load.
By focusing on your assets first and foremost, our technology places the flexibility in your assets in the best programme for optimum returns whilst ensuring operational integrity.
Installation of our state-of-the-art TouchPoint hardware on your site is easy
Our software is hardware agnostic, which means we can either install the latest in energy control hardware onto your site, or use what you currently have in place. It’s completely up to you.
As energy markets converge, it is increasingly important to find a holistic demand side response, intelligent energy services and flexibility solutions platform.
GridBeyond Point is a future-proof, unified platform that enables participation in all major energy programmes. The technology enables seamless transitions between programmes, and allows businesses the flexibility to participate on their terms.
GridBeyond Point analyses over 70 data sources and uses AI and machine learning to ascertain the best way to use your energy flexibility on your site and within the energy market in real time. These include:
- Asset Optimisation
- Price Optimisation
- Balancing Services & Demand Side Response
- Energy Market Trading
3. Intelligent Forecasts & Automation
GridBeyond Point forecasts and automates energy controls based on several sources, including:
- Aggregated site data
- Individual site data
- Individual asset data
- Grid frequency data
- Historical grid data
- Pricing from balancing markets and ancillary services
- Pricing in traded energy markets
- Weather forecasts
- Historical weather data
Your peace of mind is our highest priority.
Automation exists to make your life easier, not harder, so while energy flexibility is automated, your site and asset parameters will always be respected. In fact, our smart technology makes it impossible to breach these parameters.
For participation in some programmes, you even have the ability to override the automation should you wish to. Essentially, you stay in control.
4. Delivering benefits back to your organisation
Organisations see the benefit of additional revenues, savings, and operational improvements when using the GridBeyond Point technology platform. Benefits include:
- DSR & balancing services participation
- Ancillary services participation
- Price optimisation
- Asset optimisation
- Energy trading and market arbitrage
- Monitoring & analysis
GridBeyond Point is integrated into the world’s first hybrid battery and demand network. What does this mean?
It means that GridBeyond can enhance the overall energy flexibility of its aggregated portfolio of sites (even those with very little flexibility) to deliver greater benefits back to every organisation it works with. This opportunity is entirely unique to GridBeyond clients.
5. All visible via the ViewPoint portal
Learn how your business is performing in each market and programme via the ViewPoint energy portal.
Comparisons can be drawn between individual assets, or compare sites and projects side by side. Drill down into energy consumption, generation and discharge patterns and export data and graphs to present to your board. Review the revenue delivered to your business, check your cost savings, and learn how your flexibility has been traded across programmes and markets.
We know that the finance director isn’t always interested in asset efficiency drill-downs, an energy manager is less interested in revenues than they are demand reduction, and an operations manager is most interested in operational effectiveness and predictive maintenance.
This is why GridBeyond ViewPoint provides Finance, Operations and Energy dashboards for users based on their role and interests. They still have access to all the other information, the dashboard just takes them straight to the data most relevant to them.
6. Ticking along with the help of our behind-the-scenes team
Whilst technology is all well and good, it’s good to know that there’s an actual human keeping an eye on things too.
Our 24/7, highly qualified Network Operations Centre (NOC) team are always on hand to help with any support matters.
Their role is to keep an eye on real-time grid events, monitor price peaks, man the trading desk, and provide Virtual Energy Manager support.
GridBeyond Point enables the NOC team to help your energy management strategy go further.
The team can extract and analyse all the information needed to manipulate data and present whatever it is your business wants to see from an energy standpoint and provide consultancy on how to improve.
7. Paving the way for a sustainable future
As fossil fuel-based power plants close their doors, the grid needs new, clean sources of generation. The grid has set out its intention for a Decarbonised, Decentralised and Digitalised system. However, without digitalisation, the first two are not possible. That’s where GridBeyond comes in.
Due to the intermittent nature of renewables, we need to effectively manage electricity supply and demand to avoid blackouts. By effectively managing business electricity consumption at times of peak demand or lower generation, and optimising renewables generation and battery storage assets, GridBeyond are helping to integrate more renewables onto the electricity grid for a cleaner, greener future.
At GridBeyond we enable significant industrial and commercial energy users across a range of sectors to actively participate in energy services and demand side response.
We understand that every organisation has its own array of assets and requirements. Our technical understanding of the unique characteristics of a wide range of industry sectors means our engineers are ideally placed to find the flexibility in your site.
