Insights Into VPP Operations With Pooled BESS Fleets and Multi-Asset Hubs

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Recording of Monday, June 22, 2026 | The smarter E Europe Conferences 2026 | Language: English | Duration: 10:43 .

Comprehensive Overview of Energy Market Dynamics and CyberGrid's Role

The presentation provides insights into CyberGrid's Virtual Power Plant (VPP) operations and the complexities of energy market trading. CyberGrid, based in Vienna, connects various assets in Europe, leveraging its proprietary software, CyberKnock, to enhance market flexibility and facilitate flexibility trading. It emphasizes the importance of understanding market dynamics, including day-ahead auctions, intraday trading, and balancing energy auctions, essential for effective energy market operation. Additionally, the text explores the integration of auction-based and continuous trading mechanisms, highlighting their complementarity in enhancing market efficiency. The discussion extends to battery management and co-location with photovoltaic systems, outlining constraints like battery power limits and grid capacity that influence trading decisions. Furthermore, the significance of optimizing battery cycles is addressed, emphasizing constraints that ensure battery longevity and economic efficiency. Overall, the presentation highlights key strategies, market events, and practical optimizations essential for trading in the energy sector.

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Speaker

Philip Hahn
Head of Flexibility
CyberGrid GmbH
Austria

Across Europe, there are ports, logistics hubs, industrial parks and campuses electrifying faster than grid capacity can be expanded. Shared connections, hybrid assets and active energy management are no longer optional -they are essential tools needed to stay connected, compliant and competitive. Well-designed industrial hubs and clusters can also strengthen Europe's resilience and competitiveness, but only if they are organized in a way that preserves a company's operational autonomy and avoids new system vulnerabilities or unnecessary complexity. This session explores how grid-constrained multi-asset sites are designed and operated in practice. Speakers will show how solar systems, battery storage systems, EV charging and flexible loads can be coordinated despite limited connections. They will also explain how DSOs interact with these sites and how energy hubs can deliver measurable grid relief while maintaining smooth operation.

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Director for System Management
E-REDES
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