How a battery gets optimised, from the moment a contract is signed to the millisecond a trade is placed, is still a black box for most people in the industry. Understanding that process is the difference between leaving money on the table and extracting maximum value from every asset.
In this episode of Transmission, Ed Porter is joined by Fabrizio Fenu, Head of Business Development at EDF UK. They pull back the curtain on how battery optimisation actually works at scale: how assets are treated fairly across a large portfolio, why merchant, floor and tolling contracts suit different investors, what role AI and algorithms play on a live trading desk, and why co-located solar and battery projects are harder to finance than they look.
Chapters
00:00 Intro: Optimising 5GW
01:18 EDF's Battery Business
01:47 5GW Portfolio Scale
02:25 From 50kW to Commercial
04:44 Inside the Trading Floor
06:22 Winning Big Battery Contracts
08:01 Debt and Revenue Certainty
09:21 Merchant vs Floor vs Toll
11:05 Optimiser Market Consolidation
13:39 AI in Energy Trading
16:10 Energy Careers Advice
17:57 Fair Asset Treatment
19:25 Day-Ahead and Ancillary Markets
22:45 Enduring Auction Capability Explained
25:51 Intraday Pricing and Indexing
28:37 Perfect Battery Asset Quickfire
31:45 Co-location Solar and Battery
35:12 Battery Retrofitting Explained
36:21 Connection Reform and Scale
37:37 Simplify the Energy Industry
