Are you prepared to trade your energy storage asset in CAISO?

Conventional bidding approaches can’t handle the complexity of operating energy storage. The Fluence IQ Bidding Application captures revenue across energy and ancillary services with AI-powered bidding software.

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Energy storage requires a new approach.

KNOW WHEN TO BUY
AND SELL

Operators need accurate short-term price forecasts managing many different signals — market behavior, prices, weather, load — to drive market decisions.

ASSET FLEXIBILITY
CREATES COMPLEXITY

Energy storage can flexibly deliver energy and ancillary services as both generation and load. With thousands of decision variables, maximizing revenue requires optimization algorithms beyond the speed of humans with spreadsheets.

SOFTWARE WILL DRIVE
STORAGE ROI

Power producers and utilities need new bidding software that can fully unlock the speed, flexibility, and revenues of storage in energy markets.

A Technology-Agnostic Platform

The Fluence IQ Bidding App supports energy storage and renewable technologies from any provider, and is configured to meet the unique warranty constraints and operating parameters of each asset.

Avoid the pitfalls of closed systems and vendor lock-in with software designed to work across your entire portfolio, including wind and solar.

Designed to optimize the trading of wind, solar, and energy storage from any provider.

How the Bidding App Works in CAISO

The Bidding App recommends optimized bids every 15 minutes based on real-time market data.

FORECASTING

OPTIMIZATION

BIDDING
To predict future market prices, the platform uses machine learning to analyze thousands of variables every hour. The platform calculates the optimal bids for market products, considering price forecasts, operational constraints, and business objectives. Our software creates market-compliant bid files and sends to the scheduling coordinator or customer’s trading desk.

 

Maximize CAISO Revenue with AI Optimization

Increase energy storage profitability with the Fluence Bidding Application.

Our AI predicts future prices and calculates optimized bids that maximize wholesale revenues in the California ISO market.

Maximizing CAISO revenue requires forecasting and optimizing in different markets and across different market products:

CAISO MARKETS

  • Day Ahead Market
  • Fifteen Minute Market
  • Real-Time Dispatch

ENERGY PRODUCTS

  • Energy
  • Reg Up and Down
  • Spin and Non-Spin Reserve

Increase energy storage revenue with AI bidding

PREDICT THE FUTURE

AI machine learning produces probabilistic price forecasts that minimize error and enables maximized returns.
ALWAYS UPDATED

We stay ahead of new CAISO rules and products, e.g. flexible ramp, so you don’t miss revenue opportunities.
OPTIMAL OUTCOMES

Co-optimize sales across energy and ancillary service products in day-ahead and real-time markets, managing contracted commitments.
PROTECT YOUR WARRANTY

Incorporates warranty constraints and degradation costs as part of the optimization to increase asset ROI while maintaining coverage.
FOCUS ON STRATEGY

Leverage our bidding expertise and automated bid execution to improve operational efficiency.
BEYOND HUMAN

Execute complex bids that are impossible for humans to manage.

Powerful Tools Support Trading Desk Operations

SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT

Experiment with simulated assets to make better business decisions.

ADJUSTABLE RISK PROFILE

Instantly tailor risk preferences to fit your portfolio goals.

MANUAL BIDDING OVERRIDE

Pause algorithmic bidding or override manually any time.

VISIBILITY INTO BIDDING DECISIONS

See and share bid decisions across your organization with advanced visualization tools.

Take the CAISO Bidding App for a test drive.

Schedule a demo and platform simulation to discover how much revenue our platform can unlock from your assets.

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