Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Solutions for Businesses

Virtual Power Plant

What is a Virtual Power Plant?

A Virtual Power Plant is a digitally controlled network of decentralised, flexible energy sources. These include batteries, combined heat and power (CHP) units, solar and wind farms, electric boilers and charging stations. By intelligently connecting these sources and controlling them centrally, a virtual power plant is created that responds instantly to the grid’s current demand.

Unlike a traditional power station, a VPP does not generate electricity, but manages flexible capacity. For example, by temporarily reducing consumption during peak periods, or by switching off solar farms when there is a surplus of electricity and storing the excess energy in batteries. In this way, the VPP plays a key role in balancing the grid, even when the sun isn’t shining or demand peaks unexpectedly.

Our role

What to expect from us

At Scholt Energy, we are building a Virtual Power Plant in which we harness our customers’ flexibility for the greater good. We do this with care, transparency and technical expertise. Together, we explore the possibilities within the customer’s processes and ensure reliable, data-driven management of the assets.

Control is based on proprietary algorithms that match available flexible capacity in real time to market prices, grid demand and customer agreements.

Whether it involves temporarily shutting down production, smart battery charging or deploying a CHP unit at the right moments: the VPP enables us to make optimal use of every connected asset, without the customer having to worry about it or their business operations being disrupted.

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Importance

Why is the VPP important?

The energy transition is making our energy supply more sustainable, but also more complex. Renewable generation is less predictable, and local grids are increasingly becoming overloaded. The VPP offers a way to address these challenges without having to expand the electricity grid directly.

By shifting demand at the right moment, making temporary capacity available or storing energy, together we can:

Peakshaving

Applying the generated and stored energy from the VPP can decrease the load on the national grid.

Decrease use of fossil fuels

Increasing the availability of renewable energy supports the decrease of the use of conventional power plants like coal and gas.

Flexibility

Connecting various flexible assets makes the energy system more agile and resilient to extreme prices and high fuel costs.

Our VPP

Virtual Power Plant

Scholt Energy connects these assets to the relevant energy markets through its Virtual Power Plant (VPP). This allows producers to:

Monetise flexibility instead of losing revenue
Access markets that are otherwise unavailable to individual assets
Reduce exposure to congestion-related restrictions

The result is a new layer of revenue on top of existing production income.

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Flexibiliteit op het Nederlandse stroomnet

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Connect your assets to our VPP

Flexibiliteit op het Nederlandse stroomnet

By connecting flexible assets to our Virtual Power Plant, the customer actively contributes to a more stable and future-proof energy grid. In doing so, the customer helps prevent grid congestion, creates scope for more renewable generation and supports the energy transition.

At the same time, the customer gains a better understanding of their energy consumption, benefits from lower energy costs thanks to data-driven monitoring and smart control, and (where possible) generates additional revenue from the available flexibility. And all this without impacting core business processes.