MET Group’s Dunamenti Power plant and Navitasoft are jointly developing a software solution for energy aggregators to allow the commercial and operational optimization of MET Group’s asset portfolio as well as third-party assets. The new platform is supplemented with energy storage and other flexible assets. Today an aggregator platform with an appropriate IT interface is essential to manage the flexibility from conventional energy assets such as gas engines, energy storage facilities, electric boilers and other alternatives. This means aggregators transform the owners of flexible assets, even including consumers, into flexibility service providers, allowing them to become market players. The technology that consortium partners seek to jointly develop is focused on such a newly forming market segment. The project is executed within a joint R&D framework.
The project brings about the creation of a complex aggregator solution that incorporates a range of power consuming, and mainly smaller power generating units at Dunamenti Power Plant through smart metering systems, and the site also integrates the electrochemical electricity storage facility that is being installed as part of the project. Operation and optimization of the aggregator platform is performed using the proprietary aggregator software package delivered by Navitasoft. The project offers a solution to domestic and regional electricity market players that can be used in the wide-ranging optimization of heterogeneous asset portfolios such as that operated by MET Group.
About Dunamenti Power Plant
Dunamenti Power Plant is the largest gas-fired power plant in the Hungarian electricity system with a total output of 794 MW. With units that can be started upon demand, it is an active player in the electricity-producing and energy trading market, well-recognized for its technological reliability.
Since July 2014 MET Asset Management AG (formerly known as MET Power AG) has been the majority shareholder of Dunamenti Erőmű Power Plant, operating as a member of MET Group, with plans to further modernize the plant.
Besides an electricity production license, the Plant Operator holds a license to trade electricity and gas.