GridVault

Mandate

Storage asset

You control the BESS. Generation, demand, fuel, carbon, outages and network conditions move independently.

Market node

Power (MW) Duration (h)

Starting SOC 50%

Round-trip η Degradation £/MWh

Availability contract 0% of MW Contract fee £/kW-year

Contracted MW earns a daily capacity fee but can be called during system stress; non-delivery is penalised.

Scenario seed

v0.5-alpha · 48 half-hours · rolling RT + unit commitment + energy/reserve/dynamic response

Economic P&L—cash + terminal inventory mark

Cash settlement—energy + services + capacity − wear

Equivalent cycles——

Opportunity capture—vs perfect-foresight price taker

Local market price

Day-ahead price forecast at your node

Forecast DA RT

Battery state

DA shadow SOC and realised RT SOC

DA SOC RT SOC

Day-ahead market intelligence

Forecasts are information, not outcomes. Actual system conditions remain hidden until real time.

Open a trading day

Carbon—

Gas index—

Forecast price range—

Congestion watch—

NORTHwind · nuclear

N–C

CENTRALthermal · BESS

C–S

SOUTHsolar · thermal

No market notices loaded.

48-period day-ahead bid book

Bid energy, upward operating reserve and Dynamic Response. Dynamic Response clears in a separate availability auction, then locks symmetric inverter/SOC headroom for the period.

Time	Price fcst	Dyn ref £	Demand	Renewables	Grid risk	Charge ≤	Charge MW	Discharge ≥	Discharge MW	Reserve %	Reserve £	Dyn %	Dyn £

Locked day-ahead position

Your financial schedule is fixed. Physical dispatch now happens in real time.

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Time	DA price	Charge	Discharge	Net	Shadow SOC	Startups	BESS reserve	Reserve req.	Reserve £/MW/h	Dyn MW	Dyn £/MW/h

Real-time settlement tape

Only cleared periods are revealed. Each result reflects realised demand, renewables, outages and network constraints.

Time	DA £/MWh	RT £/MWh	Reserve £/MW/h	Dynamic response	Physical dispatch	SOC	DA settle	RT dev.	Degrad.	Net	Network
No real-time periods have cleared.

Asset setup