When energy production is handled by a greater share of renewables, there is a rising demand for grid balancing services as low-inertia power systems and production are harder to forecast and keep stable. Sympower, the flexibility specialist, is providing grid balancing services to help keep the Finnish electricity grid frequency stable at 50Hz.
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En weer valt Elestor in de prijzen, dit keer heeft het publiek Elestor uitgeroepen als winnaar van de KvK Innovatie Top 100.
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A pilot cargo route that would constitute a first step in creating a pan-European emission-free hyperloop network is being investigated in the largest urban area of The Netherlands between Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
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Israel has recently lifted its 2030 national renewable energy target from 17% to 30%. Sympower and its Israeli partner PHOEBUS ENERGY are supporting the Israeli grid in achieving this ambitious target.
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Sympower is taking part in a pilot organised by Dutch Transmission System Operator TenneT to explore how to open aFRR to independent, aggregated demand side resources. Sympower, as an independent aggregator, shows the benefits of the pilot by:

• using a mobile network instead of hardware-oriented connection
  
• allowing smaller decentral assets to be part of grid stabilization

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Sympower teamed up with Greensperad to make solar PR parks smarter and more profitable with curtailment.
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Rockstart, one of Europe’s first accelerators and today a global accelerator-VC, launches its second Fund of € 21m to invest in energy startups. The Fund was launched with the Dutch pension fund ABP, and family office De Hoge Dennen Capital as cornerstone investors, together with Enfuro Ventures and other prominent private-wealth and industry investors and is supported by the seed capital scheme from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). The Rockstart Energy Fund aims to invest in energy startups in Europe with a primary focus in the Netherlands.
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Since this Summer Sympower is offering fast frequency reserve (FFR) to Svenska Kraftnat, the Swedish grid operator. These services help  to relieve the strain on the Swedish grid caused by the rise of variable renewable energy production, the decommissioning of nuclear capacity and the increasing electricity demand.
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