Volt-R for your business

Enlighten your energy strategy

With a properly sized battery, electricity becomes a source of opportunity.

Volt-R is a simulation platform that rigorously assesses the business case for investing in a battery and calculates the optimal size based on the specific context of your company.

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Our clients

They trust us

“Volt-R’s simulations enabled us to integrate into our business cases the interdependencies between the multiple value streams of batteries, and thus refine the ideal sizing of our future installations.”

Brussels airport

“Energy is a complex business. We wanted to ensure the robustness of our investment choices by calling on independent experts.”

Plastiqual

“We have surplus photovoltaic production and some flexibility in the consumption of certain electrical equipment. Volt-R took the specific characteristics of our industrial process into account when calculating the sizing of the battery.”

Castle Ingredients

“By relying on Volt-R for our battery sizing calculations, we want to advise our customers with maximum accuracy while taking their overall energy context into account.”

Reno.energy

The problem today

Investing in a battery is a complex decision

  • Negative prices. With the abundance of solar generation, your photovoltaic installation is becoming less and less profitable, especially if it is oversized. Without a battery, you remain dependent on the grid and on volatile market prices.

  • Fragmented decisions.Battery, photovoltaics, Energy Management System (EMS) and energy supply contracts are often decided separately, without a global profitability analysis based on shared assumptions.
    Result:     savings that never materialize.

  • What is the return on investment? Revenue projections based on trading follow opaque rules and fluctuate significantly from one year to the next. Simplistic sizing methods often prove, in fact, to be simplistic.
    Such results are     indicative at best; they do not constitute a robust and reliable profitability analysis.

A battery is profitable only if it is properly sized, properly controlled and properly monetized. Volt-R integrates all relevant data in a powerful simulator to provide you with a tailored, clear and precise analysis.

Our method

A digital twin of your company to find the ideal battery

01

You define
the framework

You explain your energy context to us:

  • electrical consumption and photovoltaic production profiles
  • existing contract with your supplier
  • future projects that could impact electricity consumption
  • constraints and objectives
02

We build the
digital twin

We calibrate a virtual model that faithfully reflects your specific configuration. This digital twin:

  • reproduces electrical flows, 15 minutes by 15 minutes
  • reflects the different components of the electricity bill
  • allows you to project your future budgets and consumption profiles
03

We find the
optimal battery

More than 100 battery configurations are simulated within the digital twin. Each simulation is run over a full year, with the battery optimized every 15 minutes by a virtual EMS.

04

You receive a clear, actionable report

Our recommendation is documented with independence and transparency. Our report is results-oriented, designed to help you decide on the next steps by clearly outlining sensitivities, risks and opportunities.

Our promise

Rational energy decisions

Measuring the full potential of a battery

Excel allows for a rough profitability analysis. Our algorithm reproduces the real-time optimization carried out by an EMS according to several mechanisms :

  • self-consumption of photovoltaic production
  • peak shaving to minimize grid congestion and capacity charges
  • energy supplier pricing formula indexed to Belpex, Endex, …
  • imbalance market, etc.

This gives you a realistic view of how the battery would actually operate, and the overall impact on your bill.

Quantified, independent analysis

Volt-R does not sell batteries or associated equipment.

  • We rely on your data and on reliable market information
  • We integrate tariff complexity (grid fees, green certificates, effectively invoiced prices, etc.)
  • We deliver results using a methodology that can be audited by financial partners or investors

You get a solid factual basis to make, explain and finance your energy decisions.

A virtual energy puzzle to manage a very real situation.

The battery is only one piece of your energy puzzle. A virtual environment allows you to test as many scenarios as possible before moving to real-life implementation. Our methodology enables you :

  • to assess the potential gains from smart charging of your Electric Vehicles
  • to consider the impact on the electricity bill of flexible use of certain energy-intensive machines
  • to combine these sources of flexibility into a single scenario

The digital twin becomes your “sandbox” to test decisions and ensure their consistency.

Turning volatility into an ally.

The energy landscape is complex, but it is not unpredictable. The trends are clear :

  • electrification of uses
  • increasingly volatile electricity prices
  • decreasing value of non-dispatchable solar electricity
  • growing penalties related to grid congestion, etc.

By simulating different scenarios, Volt-R helps you anticipate these trends and turn them into opportunities.

Concrete recommendations, over the long term.

Based on dozens of simulated scenarios, Volt-R provides you with :

  • recommendations on the optimal configuration
  • an action plan for a complete and coherent implementation
  • a robust and reliable profitability analysis
  • an accurate calculation of your energy budget
  • a detailed assessment of the carbon impact of your activities

All this while keeping in mind that the cheapest electron is also the least carbon-intensive. Two birds with one stone.

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Case study

How our solutions make a difference.

With Volt-R, we do not just talk about solutions, we show them. Real, data-based insights make each option clear, tangible and ready to implement.

What battery for Castle Ingredients?

Context

  • Castle Ingredients is a Belgian company specialized in processing a wide range of sustainable food ingredients. The plant in Lontzen, in the province of Liège, is equipped with 5 MWp of photovoltaic panels that, in very sunny periods, produce more than the site consumes.
  • Question: does it make sense to install a battery? And if so, what size should it be?

Volt-R’s approach

  1. Gather data on consumption and photovoltaic production, the site’s topology, the main equipment and the pricing formulas in the supply contract.
  2. Identify equipment offering flexibility potential. Castle Ingredients was considering investing in new machines, changing the consumption profile.
  3. Build the digital twin, calibrated on measured flows and faithfully reflecting all the components of the electricity bill.
  4. Simulate the addition of a battery in about one hundred scenarios. For each scenario, a virtual EMS optimizes the battery every 15 minutes, i.e. approximately 35,000 optimizations to simulate a full year.

Results

  • Identification of the optimal battery size according to investment criteria
  • Measurement of the impact of the new machines on the electricity bill
  • Advice on the EMS and supply contract to be preferred
  • Clear visualization of the energy situation before / after
  • Month-by-month forecasts of future electricity bills, incorporating all these elements
  • Sensitivity analyses (e.g. production rate +25%)
Who we are

The founders of Volt-R

Nicolas Paris

Managing Director

nicolas.paris@volt-r.ai

Nicolas is a civil engineer and has been active in the energy sector for more than 15 years (Engie, Lampiris, TotalEnergies, D’Ieteren Energy, where he was Managing Director). With Volt-R, he brings answers to the challenges encountered throughout a career focused on two main threads: the rise of renewable energy and the electrification of society.

Dimitri Arendt

Managing Director

dimitri.arendt@volt-r.ai

Dimitri is a civil engineer and a specialist in digital twins for over 20 years. He initiated and led a research program on guided rockets at Thales Belgium, where he notably held the role of Head of Engineering. In 2014, he co-founded the startup Fleye and designed a spherical drone as well as its control algorithms. With Volt-R, he applies computing methods proven in aeronautics to emerging challenges in the energy sector.

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