European battery optimisation and energy trading service provider enspired has partnered with battery analytics company volytica diagnostics.
Volytica said in an announcement last week (27 January) that its battery analytics software will be integrated with enspired’s AI-driven real-time trading.
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The pair claim to have created an integrated battery trading solution to monetise the operation of battery energy storage system (BESS) assets in electricity markets while offering ongoing insights into the batteries’ condition.
This is potentially useful because every cycle a battery asset performs results in some degradation of the cells; there is a trade-off to be made each time between whether the revenues earned through that charge-discharge cycle are on balance worth the wear and tear that the batteries will go through.
That means that while some applications or energy arbitrage opportunities require heavy lifting from the batteries in the form of full-depth discharge cycles or rapid cycling, they can be lucrative enough to be worth that trade-off.
However, overworking the battery can result in premature degradation, which can be bad for the business case by reducing the asset’s lifetime or its availability. It can also mean that asset operators violate manufacturer warranty conditions.
Enspired CEO Jürgen Mayerhofer said that the trading and optimisation service provider performs between 8,000 and 10,000 virtual optimisation tests every day, which allows it to evaluate different trading scenarios.
Enspired is active in several European markets. Recent deals include a partnership with another flexibility trader, Entilios, to optimise the market participation of four large-scale BESS assets in Germany for Danish investor Obton, including a 137.5MW/306MWh project set to go into operation in Alfield, Lower Saxony, in mid-2026.
A couple of weeks ago, the firm also announced a deal for cross-market battery storage optimisation in the Netherlands and Belgium, with Flexcity, an electricity market flexibility solutions subsidiary of French public infrastructure services company Veolia.
Mayerhofer said, “integrating real-time data and degradation information allows us to fully utilise the battery’s capacity within its warranty terms for maximum profit while identifying the dispatch profiles best suited to ensure its long-term value and longevity.”
Volytica CEO Claudius Jehle commented on similar lines, noting that the “value and profitability of a battery decreases with increasing wear and tear.”
Jehle said that the combination of the two startup’s solutions “creates a balance between short-term revenue and long-term value retention,” adding that the analytics solution can ensure “maximum safety” to the operation of assets as well as increased profits.
Volytica and Enspired claimed the integration of battery analytics directly into a trading platform is a first of its kind for the industry.
Use cases for data analytics from commissioning to insurance
That said, the battery data analytics space is becoming a more significant service arm of the BESS industry, especially in Europe, where many of the opportunities for monetisation are increasingly merchant rather than based on contracted revenues.
Analytics providers would argue that based on machine learning models fed with historical data, their software enables accurate estimation of key metrics like State of Charge (SoC), State of Health (SoH) and cell temperature.
Additionally, these software-centric companies often assert that a third-party analytics solution removes conflicts of interest and perceived lack of transparency BESS asset owners may find in trusting only the data provided by manufacturers’ in-house equipment like battery management systems (BMS).
In a recent article for our quarterly journal PV Tech Power (Vol.41), Valentin Lorscheid and Dr. Kai-Philipp Kairies, product owner and CEO respectively of another cloud-based battery analytics company, ACCURE Battery Intelligence, took a deep dive into the world of battery storage warranties.
The pair argued that the effective application of analytics software could simplify the navigation of often complex and inflexible BESS warranties.
ACCURE was spun out of RWTH Aachen Technical University in Germany where CEO Kairies was a professor. A frequent contributor to PV Tech Power and Energy-Storage.news, the CEO has previously said that analytics are increasingly applied in a wide range of use cases throughout the BESS project lifecycle.
These include troubleshooting during commissioning, and, as Volytica’s Jehle said, minimising fire risk during operation. Indeed, the fire safety angle has been key to both ACCURE and fellow German competitor TWAICE partnering with insurance firms to offer better terms for BESS cover.
“Continuous battery monitoring not only offers additional added value to the operator but also strengthens the confidence of stakeholders such as insurance companies and investors,” Volytica CEO Claudius Jehle said.
