Category: Sympower

Sympower and Vattenfall renew partnership to provide Northern Europe with additional grid-balancing services

9/11/2021

Demand-side response services help mitigate the challenges to a net-zero economy.

Sympower has extended its partnership for a further three years with the European energy utility giant – Vattenfall. Working together with one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat, the renewed contract allows Sympower to provide continued grid balancing services in the Swedish market, while opening up further markets in countries such as Denmark.
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AEB and Sympower to jointly develop an AI-based smart energy platform for heat, steam and electricity

1/6/2021

Sympower and AEB (Amsterdam’s waste-to-energy plant) share the ambition to unlock this flexibility in the heat domain by developing a smart energy platform: HeatFlex.ai. Using artificial intelligence (AI), the platform dispatches electricity, heat and steam in the most efficient and sustainable way.
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SYMPOWER RAISES €5.2 MILLION SERIES B ROUND

24/3/2021

Sympower has raised EUR 5.2 million from Kees Koolen, the former CEO of Booking.com and an early investor and advisor of Uber, as well as existing investors Rubio Impact Ventures, PDENH, Enfuro Ventures and Casper Peeters.
The funds will be used to further rollout Sympower’s platform and services across Europe, enabling the company to launch in attractive growth markets.
Sympower is one of the largest independent flexibility providers, contributing significantly to a fully renewable future.

Sympower continues to help stabilise Finnish electricity grid

25/1/2021

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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Sympower helps israeli grid in its renewable energy ambition

24/11/2020

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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Dutch TSO enthusiastic about aFRR pilot with Sympower

30/10/2020

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

Sympower makes Solar PV Parks smarter with CURTAILMENT

19/10/2020

Sympower teamed up with Greensperad to make solar PR parks smarter and more profitable with curtailment.
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Sympower offers new service to help balancinG the Swedish grid

23/9/2020

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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Techleap selects Hardt Hyperloop, Hello energy & Sympower

9/9/2020

Techleap.nl selects Hardt Hyperloop, hello energy & Sympower as part of 11 high potential scaleups to flatten the climate curve.

SympoweR CEO recognized as thought leader

20/8/2020

Sympower founder and CEO Simon Bushell is often approached as though leader on grid flexibility and demand response. Some example in the last few weeks:

Coverage of grid flexibility on the Climate Adaptation channel by Cimpatico Studios
The inspiring story of Sympower in this episode of "Leaders in Cleantech" with David Hunt.
Opinion piece on demand response in The Energy Industry Times

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