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CheckWatt helped stabilise the power grid

When the Finnish nuclear power plant Olkiluoto 3 had to make a sudden shutdown on 19 November, CheckWatt‘s virtual power plant Currently was one of the balance resources activated, instantly providing the grid with 22 MW as frequency support.

Currently is a virtual power plant that aggregates and coordinates thousands of distributed batteries to act as one flexibility resource. Currently supports grid balance services like FCR-D up/down and FFR but also energy arbitrage and increased self-consumption.

Read more in the news article on ENERGInyheter.se

Peter RosengrenCheckWatt helped stabilise the power grid