One connection, many customers
Model the parent connection with its import and export limits, then add a submeter for each customer or tenant, with its own load profile.
Who models embedded networks and private wire with Gridcog?
Embedded network service provider, Western Australia
EnergyTec
Uses Gridcog to model renewables in its clients' embedded networks, see energy flows inside and outside each network, and compare tariff configurations side by side.
‘If X changes or Y changes, the outcome is right there in a simple-to-understand report.’
Clean energy partner for real estate, UK
Carb0n
At a retail outlet where the landlord controls the energy supply, modelled 3.5 MW of solar car ports with a 4 MWh battery.
‘The centralised energy control allowed us to create value for the landlord that would not have been possible if individual tenants managed their own supply.’
Net zero consultancy, UK
Net Zero Advisory
Works with a retirement village developer that had already invested in private wire infrastructure and submetering for residents, and used Gridcog to evaluate adding battery storage to its solar.
Who models embedded networks in Gridcog?
Embedded network operators, property owners and developers, retirement and land lease community operators, and the consultants who advise them.
Frequently asked questions
Both are private electricity networks. Embedded network is the usual term in Australia, for a network behind one parent connection to the distribution network with customers metered separately inside it. Private wire is the usual term in Great Britain, for a direct connection between generation and the loads it supplies. Gridcog models both the same way: one connection, the assets behind it and each customer's tariff.
Yes. Each customer sits behind its own submeter with its own retail tariff, so tenants, residents and businesses can be on different rates, including time-of-use and feed-in rates. EnergyTec uses Gridcog to compare multiple tariff configurations in a single project and see the effect of different network charges.
Through inter-asset flows. For every interval, Gridcog shows how much solar went to the network's loads, to the battery or to the grid, and how much the loads drew from the grid. The flows follow a set accounting order, because electrons can't be traced. Each customer's own consumption and costs show through its submeter.
An embedded network is defined by its connection: one parent connection to the distribution network, often with electricity sold to the customers inside it. A microgrid is operated as a single system, often with its own firm generation, and some can run islanded from the main grid. A site can be both. See microgrid modelling.
In Australia's National Electricity Market, customers inside an embedded network are either on-market or off-market. Where the state's rules allow it, on-market customers can take a retail offer in the same way as any other customer. Gridcog Chief Product Officer Pete Tickler notes that taking child meters on-market is one of the new routes to wholesale markets for behind-the-meter assets in Australia.
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The team behind Gridcog
Fabian Le Gay Brereton
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
Previously co-founded Greensense, acquired by ERM Power (now Shell Energy).
Pete Tickler
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
Co-founded Greensense and led digital innovation at ERM Power (now Shell Energy).
Genna Boyle
Chief Commercial Officer & Head of EMEA
More than 10 years in energy strategy, trading and renewables, with senior roles at Battery Optimiser and Limejump.
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