Buildings: The Sleeping Giants of Grid Flexibility

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Recording of Friday, May 09, 2025 | The smarter E Europe Exhibition Program 2025 | Exhibition Program | Language: English | Duration: 10:49 .

Tilt Energy CEO Explores Customized Demand-Side Flexibility in Europe's Dynamic Power Grid.

Romain Serres, CEO of Tilt Energy, emphasizes the necessity for flexibility in energy consumption due to grid constraints from rising renewable installations and electric mobility demands. This mismatch between production and consumption leads to increased investments as balancing costs rise with electricity prices. Demand-side flexibility is vital for stabilizing grids while lowering consumer bills and fostering greener practices. Tilt Energy aims to harness this potential through AI-managed distributed assets like heating systems, EVs, and behind-the-meter batteries. Buildings are central in this shift; they consume 40% of Europe's energy mainly via HVAC but are becoming active players with solar panels, thermostats, heat pumps, etc., enhancing demand-side market participation. Monetization strategies differ across Europe—France allows explicit contracts without utility approval unlike Germany—but both show promise for integration. Tilt Energy notes synergy between large-scale (front-of-meter) batteries versus cost-effective behind-the-meter solutions within an interconnected ecosystem crucial for decarbonization despite lacking universal connectivity approaches. Challenges include managing diverse assets like heat pumps or EVs uniquely handled by companies using local AI/cloud-based systems which complicates creating a one-size-fits-all solution—a complex issue yet essential for sector efficiency.

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Speaker

Romain Serres
CEO
Tilt Energy

Talk of session: Turning Energy Flexibility Into Money

Discover how commercial and industrial energy users can unlock new revenue streams through energy flexibility. This session will explore how to create revenue streams and save costs from making use of the latest flexibilty technologies, participating in demand response programs, make use of dynamic pricing, integrating energy storage systems and other approaches. Learn from successful case studies with examples of innovative approaches in flexible energy use in industrial/commercial settings. Moderator: Lucinda Murley, Flexibility Specialist, LCP Delta

Further Talks of this session:

Welcome

Speaker

Lucinda Murley
Flexibility Specialist
LCP Delta

To Talk

Battery Storage for Industrial Companies: More than Peak Shaving

Speaker

Kai Becker
Chief Development Officer
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To Talk

Unlocking Behind-the-Meter Value: Local Flexibilty and Multi-Use Cases for C&I Success

Speaker

Finn Neugebauer
Head of Sales
be.storaged

To Talk

AI-Driven Energy Trading Optimization for Co-Located Battery Storage & Renewables

Speaker

Dr. Lennard Wilkening
CEO
suena GmbH

To Talk

Monetizing Flexibility of Industrial Power-to-Heat

Speaker

Markus Fleschutz
Manager Product and Business Development
Entelios AG

To Talk

Q&A

Video is not available.

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