Announcements and milestones.
Product launches, new licences and qualifications, markets entered, and the milestones as we pass them. Longer articles are on the blog.
Products
Supply margins cut to 0.4 c/kWh
Home import and export margins both moved to 0.4 c/kWh for new agreements, import shown including VAT and export carrying none.
Company
The installer programme opens
Installers get a console of their own: affiliate earnings, alerts when a site stops performing, and every client asset grouped by inverter rather than by device.
Milestones
€1.5M paid out to clients in the first half
Across Q1 and Q2 the reserve markets paid out more than one and a half million euro to the people whose devices provided the flexibility.
Milestones
80 MW under orchestration
The pool passed eighty megawatts of controllable flexibility, aggregated across homes, businesses and parks.
Licences
Aggregator and balance licences in Lithuania
Litgrid completed the set, service provider and balance responsibility together: Volton now holds both in all three Baltic countries.
Products
The VPP controller ships
A pre-configured controller for inverters, batteries and chargers: it puts the asset onto the reserve markets without a site visit or a new meter.
Licences
Aggregator and balance licences in Latvia
AST cleared Volton as both a balance service provider and a balance responsible party in Latvia, the second of the three Baltic systems.
Licences
Balance responsibility in Estonia
Volton became a Balance Responsible Party with Elering, taking on balance responsibility for its own portfolio instead of buying it in.
Milestones
5000 devices connected
Boilers, heat pumps, chargers and batteries, each one small enough to be invisible to the market on its own.
Licences
Aggregator licence in Estonia
Elering certified Volton to aggregate third-party assets and sell balancing services to the Estonian system. The first of the three.
Markets
aFRR capacity added
The Baltic capacity market began procuring aFRR alongside FCR and mFRR, the day after Estonia joined the European PICASSO platform.
Markets
FCR and mFRR on the joint Baltic market
Elering, AST and Litgrid began co-optimising reserve procurement day-ahead on one platform, days before the Baltic grids synchronised with continental Europe.