It is time to make your battery energy storage profitable
Sizing
Sizing a Battery Energy Storage (BES) for a smart building application is a trade-off between cost of the BES itself and available stored energy. Our software is able to compute, for each targeted building, the size of BES minimizing the investment cost and maximizing revenues.
Increasing Energy
Self-Consumption
Unfortunately, for the majority of building (residential or industrial) there is a time mismatch between PV production and Load consumption. Our software is able to predict and manage the time window for which it is possible to charge the BES (PV higher than load) and discharge the battery (PV lower than load).
Ageing
The management is done for reducing the ageing of the BES and increasing the revenues. Based on our validation, in real buildings located in Lausanne, the ageing is reduced up to 45% compared to a non ageing-aware strategy.
Ancillary Services
Deploying your battery for frequency and/or voltage control? How much will it cost from the utility point of view? And from an end-client? We are able to compute this cost and the associated benefit.
Electric Vehicles
(V2G & 2nd Life)
Aurora'Grid is working on the integration of EVs batteries providing ancillary services to the grid (V2G) or to building (V2B). Moreovoer, we started to focus on the development of an EMS for Second-life batteries applications.
Ancillary Services
- Primary, secondary and tertiary frequency market
- 24 hour ahead market and Energy arbitrage
- More than 20 MWh across Europe
EV Charge Stations
- Management of commercial and residential building with EV charge station
- No BES: Grid constraint and Peak shaving accounted for
VPP
- 30 ms aggregation time
- Can connect up to 50 sites simultaneously
- Deployed for C&I and Utility Scale
2nd Life Battery
- MBMS for various BES
- Possibility to integrate hybrid systems
Renewable Self-Consumption
- Increasing self-consumption ratio
- Decreasing ageing of battery (by 20-40%)
- Possibility to couple with other services
Peak Shaving
- Reducing both renewable and load peak
- Enabling additional revenue
- Self-learning of the local behavior
CO2 Tracking
- Decarbonize assets, infrastructures or specific process
- Enabling 50% reduction in CO2 footprint
Is ageing of batteries really important ?
All these wrong behaviours have to be avoided with residential and industrial battery storage systems.
Letting your smartphone turning off because of a complete discharged battery is reducing its useful lifetime up to 1%.
Keeping your smartphone connected with the charger all night long is reducing the lifetime of the battery up to 40%. It is better to charge it in the morning for one hour.
Charging your smartphone if its temperature is high (35 degres) reduces the useful lifetime of the battery up to 40%. It is better to wait that the smartphone cools down and charge it later on.
Latest news
Plug&Play Energy Management System #EMS
- Commissioned in less than 60 minutes;
- Extending lifetime of Li-ions BES of 40%;
- Is hardware-agnostic;
- Similar architecture for C&I, emobility and utility-scale;
- Deployed in 3 continents with more than 9 countries in Europe only.
Come and visit Aurora's Grid team to discover more about our Energy Management Multiple Applications (E.M.M.A) at The smarter E, Intersolar, Power2Drive Booth B5.473
Feel free to book a 30 minutes slot with our :
CEO Dimitri Torregrossa : Book Here
Head of Engineering & Analitics Ali Zeineddine : Book Here
Second Edition of E-Charge
The event is entirely dedicated to the electric vehicle charging sector. Roberto Pirrello was present as a visitor, going around the stands to present our EMS solution
NME (Next Mobility Exhibition) 2024 Milano RHO
The Next Mobility Exhibition is a biennial international event dedicated to solutions, technologies, means, and policies for an integrated, innovative, and sustainable mobility system for people. Our Business Developer, Roberto Pirrello, visited the pavilions and met with the most important market players.
Lisbon Energy Summit & Exhibition 2024
Antonios Tsavadroglou : Very productive meetings with my great colleague Ali Zinedine EMS Engineer. Thank you Portugal 🇵🇹 If you wish to meet Antonios Tsavadroglou at Intersolar Munich on June 19-21st book an appointment in advance here: Book Here
Energyear
Energyear Spain, the leading congress in the renewable energy sector in Spain. Present for the entire event, with our Business Developer Spain, Roberto Pirrello and our CEO Dimitri Torregrossa
Middle East Energy Dubai 2024
Even during challenging times I am glad to reschedule many of Dubai meetings in Aurora's Grid Booth B5.473 during Intersolar, Munich, Germany next Week 19-21st June 2024. If you wish to meet Antonios Tsavadroglou in Munich please book an appointment in advance here: Book Here
Thessaloniki Renewable Energy Tech
Hello from Thessaloniki Renewable Energy Tech 7-9 march '24! Delighted to present Aurora's Grid solutions and why we add value to leading companies of the energy market.
KEY - The Energy Transition Expo
KEY - The Energy Transition Expo the most important European event dedicated to technologies, services, integrated solutions for energy efficiency and renewable energy in Italy and the Mediterranean basin. Aurora's Grid, through the Business Developer dedicated to Italy and Spain, illustrated our solution to exhibitors and visitors over the three days
Genera 2024 Madrid
Energy and Environment Fair, organized by IFEMA MADRID in collaboration with the IDAE, Institute for Energy. We were present as visitors through our Business developer dedicated to the Spanish market, Roberto Pirrello
Athens Intercontinental Renewable and Storage Forum
Greetings from Athens Intercontinental Renewable and Storage Forum November '23', Antonis Tsavdaroglou's first Expo with a great colleague Mohamed Thebti E-mobility Product Manager
Aurora's Grid gets 7 years old!
New Business Developer
welcoming Mr. Antonis Tsavdaroglou. Having more than 20 years of experience on sales and CRM he will support the growth of Aurora’s Grid with special focus on Greek and Balkan market. We are very glad to welcome him on our team!
Following our post on scaling Aurora’s Grid team, we are glad to welcome Mr. Roberto Pirrello
With a strong business background and 10 years of experience on Sales and Procurement Management, he joins today as Business Developer with specific focus on Italian and Spanish market. We are fully confident he will provide high-skilled support to our clients.
Strengthen technical team!!
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Ali Zeineddine as EMS engineer at Aurora's Grid. After successfully obtained a Phd in Electrical Engineering at University of Toronto, Ali will support our scaling-up of EMS installations around Europe.
The Future in Training: Our Apprentice Students
We are delighted to welcome Nabila Furmuly and Joris Bailly in their final phase of training as Computer Application Development CFC (Web-Cloud) professionals. Furthermore, we sincerely thank Jobtrek for their commitment to enhancing the skills of young individuals in the service of innovative companies in the Vaud region!
Joint Venture: Aurora' s Grid Hellas
In recent months, Greece has witnessed a significant boom in the energy storage market, marking a transformative shift in the country's energy landscape. This growth can be attributed to several factors, including favorable government policies, advancements in technology, and increasing renewable energy integration. One of the key drivers of the energy storage market in Greece is the government's commitment to transitioning to a cleaner and more sustainable energy system. In this respect, we are thrilled to announce a strategic joint venture “Aurora’s Grid Hellas”, between LL&DS Holding and Aurora’s Grid LC, focused on Balkan market. This groundbreaking collaboration brings together the extensive expertise and resources of both LL&DS Holding and Aurora’s Grid LC to tackle the growing challenges in energy storage and accelerate the development of cutting-edge technologies. With a shared vision of a sustainable future and a commitment to innovation, this joint venture will revolutionize the energy sector by addressing critical issues such as grid stability, renewable integration, and e-mobility. We are ready to provide our Energy Management Multiple Applications (EMMA) as game-changing solution to reshape the energy landscape.
Never stop growing!!
In order to support our growing market traction, Dr. Herjuno Rah Nindhito is reaching the EMS's team developers. Obtained a PhD at University of Geneve, with his strong background on big data analysis and machine learning is the right person for large deployment of our diagnostic and predictive maintenance tool for Li-ion battery.
New Energy Management Systems developer
We are delighted to welcome Mohamed Thebti in our team. With a robust background on modeling and experimental investigation of 2nd life BES is joining as Energy Management Systems developer.
New R&D Engineer - Stijn Nefkens
Aurora’s Grid Team growing again!!! A Great Welcome to our new R&D Engineer, Mr. Stijn Nefkens. Bringing more than 3 years of experience on renewable energies, he will help us with news EMMA 2.0 deployment!!
First Step Towards a Flourishing Collaboration
The direct connection between Voltalia Group and Aurora’s Grid is a clear example of how companies can quickly optimize their effort through rapid design and simulation cycles of battery energy storage coupled with photovoltaic power plant. Sizing-emulating platforms such as Aurora’s Grid 4.0 are a growing need on the desktop, as more engineers analyze “battery project” products for real-operating conditions while designing. This trend– in which battery twin-digital simulation occurs as part of the daily feasibility study process – benefits companies by providing an improved understanding of the ROI of the targeted project and better estimation of lifetime of the battery as well as C02 footprint reduction with a fast realization of optimal designs.
As Google claimed few weeks ago: Round-the-clock renewable energy... We are so grateful to Swiss Climate Foundation for supporting our project «Enhanced Renewable Energy Credit»
We will prove that in addition to a yearly balance between renewable production and load consumption, we do need to further decrease CO2 footprint of buildings and grids, by storing renewable energy and deploying it when the CO2 footprint of the grid is the worst one! To achieve this goal we are enhancing our Energy Management for Mutiple Application (EMMA), we are using 2nd life battery storage and we futher collaborate with Eaton Group.
Glad to deliver two additional industrial licenses of our Energy Management for Multiple Applications EMMA 1.0, to Romande Energie SA for their installation in Chapelle-sur-Moudon, Switzerland
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About us
Passionate people on our team
Dr. Dimitri Torregrossa is founder and CEO of Aurora’ s Grid since its creation in October 2016. Passionate about renewable energies and electrochemical storage devices he decided in 2016 to make a software for managing battery storage systems. He got a Phd in electrical engineering and a post-doctoral experience of 5 years at EPFL in ageing of Li-ions cells and Ultracapacitors. He has worked/collaborated, last 7 years, with several industrial partners such as Leclanché SA, Arts Energy, Nesscap, Maxwell,  Romande Energie, Services Industriels de Lausanne.
Abbass holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Geneva and a Master's in Communication Systems from EPFL. As Chief Technology Officer, he oversees the development and continuous enhancement of the company's Energy Management System (EMS) and related software products. With extensive experience in research and development and a strong passion for renewable energy systems, Abbass ensures that Aurora's Grid EMS remains at the forefront of innovation and technology.
As Chief Product Officer, Stijn provides direction for the development and scaling of our product. The result is a unified environment providing intuitive access to fleet management, virtual power plant orchestration, local energy management, battery pack and inverter control and more.
Loukas has served as the CEO of Nostira S.A., a renewable energy company with main activities the development, construction and asset management of RES units. He brings more than twenty years of executive experience in the Renewable Energy Industry. During his career, he has gained a reputable experience in the Energy sector, having developed major RES projects, summing up to hundreds of MWs, in Greece, Cyprus and Romania. Loukas was in charge of the strategic directions and financial decisions of the organizations he cooperated with, while implemented hundreds of millions of financing facilities and facilitated 500MW of RES projects in Greece.
Dr. Herjuno, a expert in Digital Product Management, leads our mission to revolutionize the energy industry for a more sustainable future. With a Ph.D. in this specialized field, he combines innovation and strategy to drive our cutting-edge solutions, including our Energy Management System (EMS) and Energy Management and Monitoring Analytics (EMMA). He is dedicated to creating a greener, more efficient world through technology, data-driven insights, and sustainable energy practices.
Ali holds a PhD in Quantum Photonics from the University of Toronto and a Master in Theoretical Physics. Ali possesses extensive experience in both academic research and practical engineering. Currently leading the Engineering and Analytics team at Aurora's Grid, he is dedicated to advancing technological frontiers in various energy market segments.
Holding a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry with a strong foundation in software engineering, Francisco is a key contributor to the development and optimization of Aurora's energy management platforms. His extensive experience in scientific software design is a critical tool in driving innovation through his work and ensuring that the company’s products meet the highest standards of performance and efficiency.
Roberto Pirrello brings a wealth of expertise to our team. With a strong background in business and a decade of experience in Sales and Procurement Management, Roberto is well-prepared to excel in his role as a Business Developer. He has a specific focus on the Italian and Spanish markets, and we're confident that his contributions will be instrumental in providing high-skilled support to our clients and driving growth in these regions.
As Aurora’s Grid Business Developer drives growth by identifying and cultivating new market opportunities, forming strategic partnerships, and crafting tailored solutions to meet client needs. He leverages their industry expertise to enhance the company's competitive edge and ensure sustainable, long-term success in the evolving energy sector.
Mohamed is a highly skilled Energy Management System Engineer with a strong educational background in Mechanical Engineering, holding a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Systems Design from HE-ARC, Neuchâtel, and a Master's degree in Engineering from HES-SO Lausanne. With over 3 years of professional experience, his expertise spans across diverse domains, encompassing mechanical design, thermal engines, renewable energies, optimization, programming, and hands-on experience in experimental testing. he is dedicated to enhancing energy efficiency and sustainability through the development and implementation of cutting-edge energy management systems and solutions.
Joris is in his third year training, joined us in 2023 and is working with us on different projects, we have the opportunity to contribute back to the society and share our knowledge by training our apprentices and sharing our coding scales.
Nabila in her third year of training is working with us on different projects, and we have the opportunity to contribute back to the society and share our knowledge by training our apprentices and sharing our coding scales.
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