# GridVolt

> GridVolt is an Irish energy technology company that provides AI-powered energy optimisation and trading software for commercial battery energy storage systems (BESS). GridVolt helps businesses, facilities, and energy managers across Ireland and the UK reduce energy costs, cut carbon emissions, and earn revenue from battery storage through wholesale energy trading and flexibility markets.

GridVolt was founded in 2025 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with a UK subsidiary (GridVolt UK Limited). The platform is hardware-agnostic and integrates with leading inverter and battery brands including Huawei, Solis, Sigenergy, GoodWe, Schneider Electric, and ABB.

GridVolt serves commercial and industrial energy users including farms, manufacturing facilities, hospitality businesses, data centres, and EV charging operators. GridVolt's optimisation and trading capabilities can reduce battery storage system payback periods to as little as 3 years.

## Products

- [GridTrade](https://www.gridvolt.com/gridtrade): GridVolt's energy trading product. Enables commercial battery storage owners to earn revenue through wholesale energy trading and flexibility markets. GridVolt acts as a licensed trading party, handling all dispatch, trading, and settlement automatically on behalf of the asset owner.
- [Energy Manager](https://www.gridvolt.com/energy-manager): AI-powered energy optimisation platform that helps facilities and energy managers reduce energy costs. Uses predictive optimisation to make decisions today based on tomorrow's energy prices, weather, and building demand forecasts. Optimises battery storage dispatch, HVAC scheduling, solar PV integration, time-of-use tariff arbitrage, peak shaving, and demand management. Includes real-time monitoring dashboard and mobile app.

## Use Cases

- **Energy cost reduction**: Predictive optimisation of battery storage and HVAC systems using day-ahead energy price forecasts, weather data, and building occupancy patterns to shift consumption to the cheapest periods
- **Time-of-use tariff optimisation**: Automatically scheduling energy-intensive loads and battery charge/discharge cycles around TOU tariff windows, dynamic tariffs, and wholesale price signals
- **HVAC optimisation**: Pre-heating or pre-cooling buildings during off-peak periods using predictive models, reducing HVAC energy costs while maintaining comfort
- **Peak shaving and demand management**: Reducing maximum demand charges by forecasting site load and proactively discharging batteries during peak periods
- **Solar PV integration**: Maximising self-consumption of on-site solar generation and storing excess for later use
- **Flexibility and grid services**: Earning revenue by providing demand response, frequency response, and capacity market services
- **EV charging optimisation**: Enabling fast EV charging at grid-constrained sites using battery buffering
- **Power quality management**: Correcting power factor and voltage issues using battery inverter reactive power capabilities
- **Backup power and resilience**: Providing critical load backup during grid outages

## Sectors

- Manufacturing and pharmaceutical
- Hospitality
- Agriculture and farms
- Data centres
- EV charging infrastructure
- Commercial and public buildings

## Markets

GridVolt operates in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Relevant market programmes include:

- **Ireland**: ESB Networks Beat-the-Peak / Clean Energy Hub demand response scheme, DS3 system services, capacity market
- **UK**: Wholesale energy trading via P415 (Half-Hourly Settlement), Balancing Mechanism, frequency response services, Capacity Market, DUoS tariff optimisation, flexibility markets

## Company Information

- **Founded**: 2025
- **Headquarters**: Dublin, Ireland
- **UK subsidiary**: GridVolt UK Limited
- **Website**: https://www.gridvolt.com
- **Dashboard**: https://app.gridvolt.com
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gridvolt
- **Contact**: https://www.gridvolt.com/contact

## Updates

- [Blog / Updates](https://www.gridvolt.com/blog): Latest news, product announcements, and energy industry insights from GridVolt