For us as a public CPO there are mainly two things
that we try to achieve with Virtual Power Plant or VPP.
One is that we want to be innovative,
being in the forefront of new technology in the industry.
The second thing that we want to achieve is of course taking
responsibility for the strain that we put on the energy system.
We chose FlexiShard for this type of project because we
were in need of a very safe and secure system to develop,
test and also of course to deploy the VPP. So the way
it works is that all our sharders in a certain area of
Sweden are working as a Virtual Power Plant together.
So as soon as there is an event triggered
we can control all of them at the same time.
It is very hard to deploy a VPP on a public sharding network
because it requires a good amount of control and predictability.
And adding to that we only have about 30 minutes to make sure
that the customer gets as good as an experience as possible.
So we need to really make sure that everything
that we develop takes that into account.
In this first phase we need to understand
the potential of Virtual Power Plant.
And given that it has the potential that we foresee we will
then of course expand to other geographies or to other markets.
Looking ahead.
Looking ahead.
Virtual Power Plant will be an integrated
part of being a public charge point operator.
My message to other CPOs is of course to follow because
we need as an industry to take responsibility for
the additional strain that we put on the energy system.