Joining our service is easy. Our five step process to enable demand response with your asset ensures a smooth onboarding without any unnecessary work. The process starts with a rough feasibility study and continues to more technical details, including contracting, only if we see the mutual benefit.
We are interested in all kinds of assets that have flexibility. Batteries that can be used also as a source of flexible capacity as a secondary purpose (like data center UPSes) are naturally a perfect asset for the Spring's service.
Other good candidates are assets that have flexibility in their processes. These could be for example heating or cooling applications that need to operate within certain temperature limits and pumps and fans that have bigger tolerances in their operation.
The process starts with a quick check to see if the asset is suitable to be part of Spring’s pool of flexible assets. General information about the power consumption and the actual process is needed to conduct this quick check.
If we mutually concur that the asset could be part of Spring’s demand response programme, a more detailed study will be conducted. It includes an analysis of the consumption pattern of the asset and a more detailed analysis of the impacts on the customer’s process. The economic potential is also analysed more thoroughly.
With a green light from the feasibility study, we proceed to the contracting phase. The results of the feasibility study will be used as the basis for the contract.
Once the contract is signed, we proceed to the actual installation, which typically does not take much time.
Once everything has been installed and configured, we can start enjoying the additional value and the contributions to a greener future.
The process starts with a quick check to see if the asset is suitable to be part of Spring’s pool of flexible assets. General information about the power consumption and the actual process is needed to conduct this quick check.
If we mutually concur that the asset could be part of Spring’s demand response programme, a more detailed study will be conducted. It includes an analysis of the consumption pattern of the asset and a more detailed analysis of the impacts on the customer’s process. The economic potential is also analysed more thoroughly.
With a green light from the feasibility study, we proceed to the contracting phase. The results of the feasibility study will be used as the basis for the contract.
Once the contract is signed, we proceed to the actual installation, which typically does not take much time.
Once everything has been installed and configured, we can start enjoying the additional value and the contributions to a greener future.
In order to enable demand response with your asset, we need to connect to it in a secure way. Usually, this means that we need to install a device that can control the asset. If it is possible, we prefer using APIs or other digital means to create the connection. We definitely take cyber security seriously, and we use secure ways to control the asset, agreed upon together with the customer. For safety's sake, we always allow the customer to temporarily opt out of the demand response activity if needed.
We do the major part of the required work, and we take care of the possible hardware needed for the integration.
Business Development Manager, Finland
Tel: +358 46 5000 4660
antti [dot] makinen [at] fortum [dot] com
Business Development Manager, Sweden
Tel: +46 72 210 8361
mui [dot] nguyen [at] fortum [dot] com
