The importance of trading to smart energy business models

Expertise in energy trading is vital to the success of smart energy business models, which rely on integrating decentralised generation assets with the wholesale energy market. That presents an opportunity for firms with the right skills, argue Jim Fitzgerald, Jochen Schneider and Matthias Raeck

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The enormous growth in intermittent and distributed ‘smart' generation assets is creating new commercial opportunities for European energy traders. Smart grid innovations, such as automatic bidirectional control and intelligent linking, enable the technical integration of large numbers of small-scale, distributed power generation, storage and consumption units. A key success factor for smart energy business models is expertise in energy trading and successfully integrating these distributed

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