#ReactiveTechnologies

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Reactive Technologies’ approach to solving energy system challenges is very different

Reactive Technologies’ Tradenergy® platform delivers an ultra-fast, future-proof energy management and DSR optimisation service. This next generation of sophisticated DSR control connects to commercial customers’ electrical consuming and generating equipment via a secure, cloud-based platform interface. This extracts the inherent flexibility within customers’ assets, managing them within a wider flexibility portfolio and intelligently optimising them across the highest-value DSR opportunities from within the energy system.

Tradenergy® delivers accurate and safe control of customers’ equipment in line with pre-agreed operational parameters, ensuring customers stay in control of their assets at all times. Tradenergy® also enables commercial customers with energy storage devices or back-up generators to flex these assets for DSR while ensuring they are available when needed for their primary purpose.

Most importantly, Tradenergy® is totally future-proof as it has been built to adapt to any new assets or energy mechanisms that may arise in future, ensuring it will always be fit for purpose.

To summarise, commercial energy customers using Reactive Technologies’ Tradenergy® earn new revenue streams for their flexibility and materially lower their energy bills by benefiting from fully integrated energy management.

https://www.raconteur.net/sponsored/tradenergy-dsr-heralding-a-new-era-of-empowered-commercial-energy-customers

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Heralding a New Era of Empowered Commercial Energy Customers

With the planned closure of UK coal power stations by 2025, a large proportion of flexibility will need to be provided instead by commercial energy customers participating in demand-side response (DSR).

DSR is an energy programme that compensates energy consumers and generators for their flexibility. Commercial customers, empowered by Reactive Technologies’ Tradenergy DSR service, are set to benefit financially from the transition to a new energy system while enabling a more sustainable, low-carbon energy mix and contributing towards improved security of supply.

Reactive Technologies is an energy tech company based in the UK with a presence in France and Finland. Reactive Technologies has considerable experience in the energy sector, partnering with retail giant Carrefour Hypermarchés in France to deliver mass-scale DSR services. The company also collaborates with National Grid UK on cutting-edge innovation projects, utilising its deep communications and software engineering heritage.

https://www.raconteur.net/sponsored/tradenergy-dsr-heralding-a-new-era-of-empowered-commercial-energy-customers

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UK Firm Achieves A World First In Smart Grid Innovation

Connected devices send and receive data across the electricity network through minute and subtle changes made to the grid frequency by modulating the power consumption of transmitting devices. These ‘on’ and ‘off’ or frequency changes create a unique code. Receivers, embedded in the plugs of devices, such as freezers, hot water tanks and air conditioning equipment, are programmed to detect these frequency changes. Receiving devices then identify and decode the messages, which automatically tell the device to carry out a particular instruction, for example, to tell the device to take action such as turn down or turn off according to a schedule, or based on grid frequency changes.

GDMS allows for faster, automated responses from assets so they can be used for higher value, system-critical, load-balancing services like frequency response.

Project Samuel was the code name for Reactive’s demonstrator project with National Grid and SSE that started in April 2014 and ended successfully in March 2016. Ofgem funded project Samuel under its Networks Innovation Allowance (NIA) fund.

National Grid signed up to the scheme as part of its work to support innovative ways to help balance supply and demand and also provide benefits to customers. Technology that allows devices to communicate quickly will help encourage ‘demand side’ solutions that encourage efficient use of energy and will increasingly become part of the way the grid is managed.

Cordi O’Hara, Director of UK system operator, National Grid says: “At National Grid we are keen to support innovative products that can bring a real benefit for customers. We are proud to be part of this groundbreaking project…..”

http://www.engineerlive.com/content/step-forward-smart-energy

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A step forward for smart energy

One of the UK’s leading smart grid and demand-side response (DSR) company has recently demonstrated a world first in energy communications technology, following a successful nationwide project with National Grid and SSE.

Traditional approaches to communicating with assets require a reliable internet or mobile communication connection in addition to an individual meter, which can prove financially prohibitive and limit the viability of DSR schemes that incorporate thousands of smaller assets. Many assets are excluded from existing DSR arrangements due to a lack of remote connectivity. GDMS provides an alternative, cost-effective solution to this by using the frequency of the electricity network to carry data.

National Grid signed up to the scheme as part of its work to support innovative ways to help balance supply and demand and also provide benefits to customers. Technology that allows devices to communicate quickly will help encourage ‘demand side’ solutions that encourage efficient use of energy and will increasingly become part of the way the grid is managed.

Cordi O’Hara, Director of UK system operator, National Grid says: “At National Grid we are keen to support innovative products that can bring a real benefit for customers. We are proud to be part of this groundbreaking project, which has demonstrated the successful transmission of data through the electricity grid over long distances, critically passing through transformers and with a broad coverage. It represents another step forward in the development of the smart grid technologies that are going to play an increasingly important role in the energy systems of the future.

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http://www.engineerlive.com/content/step-forward-smart-energy

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Reactive chose to accept an offer from Octopus Capital Limited (Octopus) having received expressions of interest from other leading investors.

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Jens Madrian spent many years at RWE, finally as chief financial officer at Npower. Now he has joined a ‘smart energy’ company, Reactive Technologies. He spoke to Janet Wood about moving from a ‘big six’ company to a start-up.

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The 'democratisation' of energy and the power shift towards energy customers that can generate and store their own electricity (prosumers) creates opportunities for innovative companies to change how to think about energy. Reactive Technologies is one such organisation that is driving serious technology-enabled disruption in the market ……. View the complete update at http://ow.ly/g1YF301c1BZ

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What made Reactive Technologies stand out for you ahead of other intelligent energy companies?

Reactive's heritage in mass communications engineering means its technology is radically different and more sophisticated than what I have seen offered elsewhere in the marketplace. Reactive Technologies is bringing skills and expertise from the telecommunications industry, which went through a similar fundamental change in the 90s, something that the energy industry needs to go through now, as it urgently needs a new perspective and progressive strategies to deal with the challenges resulting from significant decarbonisation and decentralization of energy in a digital world.

An extract from a session between Power Engineering International & Jens Madrian. To read the complete interview please visit http://ow.ly/u1S1300ZUuv