The Sellers View: How the Electricity Industry Is Preparing for Renewables Round The Clock Supply

The decentralized energy transition is entering a new phase: moving away from fixed feed-in tariffs toward market-based solutions and intelligent grid integration. In this context, Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) combined with residential energy storage, are evolving from convenience and optimization tools into critical enablers of prosumer profitability. Opportunities arise from enhanced self-consumption optimization and the growing relevance of front-of-the-meter use cases such as direct marketing. However, challenges loom: a potential slowdown in new PV and residential storage installations and intensifying competition between large national installer platforms, independent HEMS-only players and OEMs in an increasingly crowded market. This session will analyze emerging business models, the competitive landscape and key success factors for HEMS providers in this pivotal market shift.

The decentralized energy transition is entering a new phase: moving away from fixed feed-in tariffs toward market-based solutions and intelligent grid integration. In this context, Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) combined with residential energy storage, are evolving from convenience and optimization tools into critical enablers of prosumer profitability. Opportunities arise from enhanced self-consumption optimization and the growing relevance of front-of-the-meter use cases such as direct marketing. However, challenges loom: a potential slowdown in new PV and residential storage installations and intensifying competition between large national installer platforms, independent HEMS-only players and OEMs in an increasingly crowded market. This session will analyze emerging business models, the competitive landscape and key success factors for HEMS providers in this pivotal market shift.

The share of renewable energies in European power systems is steadily increasing: Germany has already achieved approximately 60 percent, and most of the renewable energy is provided by the volatile sources wind and solar. This is the bright side of the story, but conventional power plants, which have been responsible for grid stability until now, are also being shut down. A further increase in renewable shares requires a shift in the paradigm towards grids operating safely and reliably with power electronic assets. In this context, energy storage systems with grid-forming inverters play a key role, and this session is dedicated to technological solutions, the development and adaptation of grid codes, market incentives and, as well as best practices. Additionally, we will ask whether the way in which grid stability was coordinated in the era of turning masses from momentum reserve to FCR, aFRR and mFRR is still appropriate for inverter-dominated grids.

The share of renewable energies in European power systems is steadily increasing: Germany has already achieved approximately 60 percent, and most of the renewable energy is provided by the volatile sources wind and solar. This is the bright side of the story, but conventional power plants, which have been responsible for grid stability until now, are also being shut down. A further increase in renewable shares requires a shift in the paradigm towards grids operating safely and reliably with power electronic assets. In this context, energy storage systems with grid-forming inverters play a key role, and this session is dedicated to technological solutions, the development and adaptation of grid codes, market incentives and, as well as best practices. Additionally, we will ask whether the way in which grid stability was coordinated in the era of turning masses from momentum reserve to FCR, aFRR and mFRR is still appropriate for inverter-dominated grids.

The share of renewable energies in European power systems is steadily increasing: Germany has already achieved approximately 60 percent, and most of the renewable energy is provided by the volatile sources wind and solar. This is the bright side of the story, but conventional power plants, which have been responsible for grid stability until now, are also being shut down. A further increase in renewable shares requires a shift in the paradigm towards grids operating safely and reliably with power electronic assets. In this context, energy storage systems with grid-forming inverters play a key role, and this session is dedicated to technological solutions, the development and adaptation of grid codes, market incentives and, as well as best practices. Additionally, we will ask whether the way in which grid stability was coordinated in the era of turning masses from momentum reserve to FCR, aFRR and mFRR is still appropriate for inverter-dominated grids.