Flexviz
Flexviz uses an OpenADR-based platform to connect flexibility suppliers with electricity network operators, enabling real-time visibility of resources. With 40 MW onboarded, Flexviz helps optimise the use of flexible energy solutions across Aotearoa.
About
Flexviz is a project recently launched by Ara Ake and Cortexo, a Christchurch-based technology company passionate about integrating distributed energy resources into the electricity system and markets to maximise the benefits for Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Solution: Real-time visibility
Electricity distribution and transmission networks operators often lack sufficient visibility into available flexibility, while flexibility suppliers find it challenging to offer services due to a limited understanding of the market and its value.
Developed by Cortexo, Flexviz is an OpenADR based platform, that enables flexibility suppliers to report their available resources everyfive minutes, including battery status, generation capacity and reducible load demand.
This information is made visible to electricity distribution and transmission networks and operators, allowing them to maximise the use of flexibility solutions. Additionally, this platform can assist consumers, businesses and communities in adjusting their energy use in response to external signals, particularly during times of peak demand.
Impact Unlocked: Collaboration and aggregation
Flexviz has successfully onboarded key flexibility suppliers, including SolarZero, Revolve, Thundergrid, Nexbe, EVisi, and IvoryEgg, totalling 40 MW of flexibility visible on its platform. With support from Ara Ake, Flexviz is now connected to Transpower’s System Operator (SO) distributed energy resources management system (DERMS), enabling the SO control room to visualise the extent of flexible resources available in real-time.
This joint initiative involves multiple flexible DER providers and provides the SO control room with a single, locationally aggregated view of the expected response from flexible DER capacity. In addition to the flexibility suppliers connected directly to Flexviz, the initiative has onboarded additional suppliers, including Blackcurrent, OpenLoop, and NZ0 Cherry Farm, which connect directly to the SO DERMS.
Media release
10 June 2024: Projects Flexviz and FlexTalk to increase accessibility and visibility of flexible energy resources
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