PeakPlan
PeakPlan provides an advanced optimization tool for district heating companies, building algorithmic models of plants, storage, and market opportunities to minimize costs and maximize revenue. The platform generates optimal operating plans for 15-minute intervals, covering plant output, storage strategies, and ancillary service participation, with three modules for day-ahead planning, perfect benchmarking, and real-time dispatch.
- Energy
- Clean Technology
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
District heating companies operate in an increasingly complex market where spot, intraday, and ancillary service prices fluctuate constantly. Plants have multiple operational options, storage requires optimal charge/discharge strategies, and heat balance, ramps, and capacity reserves must be coordinated across the portfolio. This complexity exceeds human planning capability, making it difficult to know whether plants are being operated at the lowest heat price.
Solution
PeakPlan is an advanced optimization tool that builds an algorithmic model of a district heating company's plants, storage, and market opportunities to find the combination that minimizes costs and maximizes revenue. The model is fed with heat demand, detailed plant data, spot/intraday/ancillary service prices, fuel and tariff costs, and storage constraints. The optimizer produces an optimal operating plan for each 15-minute interval, covering plant output, storage strategies, and ancillary service participation, ready for benchmarking against actual operations. Three modules—Planner (day-ahead), Ideal (perfect benchmark), and Dispatcher (real-time dispatch)—provide a complete decision-support picture.
Target Audience
Primary customers are district heating companies seeking data-driven decision-making to improve plant performance, market participation, and profitability in increasingly complex energy markets.
Features
- Portfolio-wide optimization covering production, storage, and markets in a single model
- Planner, Ideal, and Dispatcher simulation modes for day-ahead planning, perfect benchmarking, and real-time dispatch
- Support for thermal plants, solar thermal, and storage units with individual operating profiles and constraints
- Full integration of ancillary service markets FCR, aFRR, and mFRR, including both capacity market (CM) and energy activation market (EAM)
- 15-minute interval resolution for granular operational planning and benchmarking