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The €40 000 per MW per Year Gap: What Drives Financial Performance in Industrial Battery Systems?

Written by FlexHub | Jul 23, 2026, 5:00:02 PM

What Determines Battery Performance

  • Multi-market access: Smartly combining imbalance, reserve markets FCR and aFRR, and the intraday market through dynamic optimisation instead of single-market focus.

  • Peak shaving 2.0: Actively monitoring and reducing 15-minute peaks to structurally lower grid fees, while trading in parallel.

  • Local optimisation: Maximising the use of your own renewable energy at the right moments.

  • Your energy contract: If the contract is not adapted to flexibility, optimisation efforts lose impact.

  • VPP advantage: The strategic power of a large-scale Virtual Power Plant.