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Empowering energy storage solutions

Capture Energy, a leader in energy storage solutions, specialises in end-to-end turnkey energy storage solutions, enabling forward-thinking customers to benefit from opportunities in the flexibility market rapidly, safely, and sustainable. As a digitalization partner, Itera enhances Capture Energy's operational performance through digital solutions.

The project in brief

Itera develops Capture Energy's cloud platform, including an asset management, customer, and monitoring portal. These portals enable remote monitoring and real-time data access to boost system uptime and efficiency. The goal is to ensure that customers leverage the highest income on their equipment, including benchmarking tools between different markets and aggregators.

About Capture Energy

Capture Energy, founded in 2023, delivers large-scale battery energy storage systems and energy management technology that can help businesses and communities achieve their sustainability goals, as well as gain new revenue streams.

The company operates from Sweden and is represented in Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, but it delivers to all European countries. Capture Energy has focused on two of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals: "9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure" and "17. Partnerships for the Goals." 

  

Henrik Lundgren

– Together with Itera, we are creating solutions that enable us to provide even more value to our customers by leveraging the insights we gain from the data collected from our batteries.

Henrik Lundgren

CTO, Capture Energy

– Together with Itera, we are creating solutions that enable us to provide even more value to our customers by leveraging the insights we gain from the data collected from our batteries.

Henrik Lundgren, CTO, Capture Energy

Understanding the flexibility market

The flexibility market comprises several key components: peak shaving, load balancing, the frequency market, and reserve services. By installing batteries, industrial players and utility companies can avoid power demand peaks, where a single entity consumes a large amount of power at one time.
 
For instance, consider a Tesla Supercharger station; when all charging stations are in use simultaneously, it places a high load on the grid. Electric vehicle owners might notice slower charging speeds due to this high demand. To mitigate this, Tesla sometimes installs its own batteries that act as buffers, allowing cars to continue charging at full speed without drawing excessive power directly from the grid. These batteries recharge during off-peak times when fewer chargers are in use. This practice is known as peak shaving.
 
Another opportunity with battery storage is participating in load balancing by purchasing electricity when it's inexpensive and feeding it back into the grid when prices rise. This is also called energy arbitrage.
 
Moreover, batteries can engage in the frequency market by stabilizing grid frequency amidst fluctuating supply and demand. For example, wind farms predict production based on weather forecasts a day in advance; however, actual production may vary due to sudden wind gusts or calm periods. These fluctuations cause frequency disturbances that batteries can help smooth out.

An innovative battery solution

Capture Energy has introduced an advanced battery system that seamlessly integrates with the power grid, designed to cater to the specific needs of industries with high electricity consumption. This system allows their customers to strategically utilize the battery storage during periods of high electricity demand and costs, thereby providing an economical alternative to grid power.

Customers can draw energy from the battery system when electricity availability is constrained or prices peak. This system is engineered to recharge when electricity is more abundant and less expensive, ensuring an efficient energy management cycle.

If the battery's charge is depleted, it can be conveniently recharged using the power grid at opportune moments when electricity rates are lower.

Through Capture Energy’s energy management system, the Capture Controller, the process of putting a BESS on the market is simplified. This is done by performing direct integrations with batteries, inverters, and aggregators as well as sensors required to deliver flexibility services as well as taking responsibility for the whole BESS project: from ideation, application, and planning, to installation and commissioning and later operation and  service. The Capture Controller is also connected to the cloud, where Itera enters the picture.
David Veznik

– Working with Capture Energy has been a great experience. Their innovative approach and our ability to use the latest technologies make the project exciting. As a hybrid team, we maintain direct communication with the customer, ensuring seamless and efficient collaboration.

David Veznik

Fullstack Developer, Itera

– Working with Capture Energy has been a great experience. Their innovative approach and our ability to use the latest technologies make the project exciting. As a hybrid team, we maintain direct communication with the customer, ensuring seamless and efficient collaboration.

David Veznik, Fullstack Developer, Itera

Digital monitoring for enhanced operational performance

Itera was hired to develop a asset management and customer portal tailored for industry customers. This portal will offer a comprehensive overview of energy usage, enhancing transparency and control over energy consumption. Consequently, their customers can focus more on generating value rather than managing system operations.

Additionally, we are developing an internal monitoring tool for Capture Energy’s employees, allowing them to access real-time data and the insight they need to deploy, monitor and optimize the BESS.  

This system's versatility extends to load balancing and is a reliable backup solution. It contributes to a stable power supply while facilitating cost optimization, and it encompasses a broad spectrum of applications beyond mere cost savings.

Leveraging technologies such as part of the Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (i.e. IoT Hub, timeseries databases, security, authentication) ensured efficient sensor data integration, leading to optimal system performance.

This project also highlights the importance of continuous learning and adaptation. Our feedback loops have been instrumental in refining our approaches and ensuring seamless implementation of advanced technological solutions that benefit both parties involved.

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Lise Eastgate
Head of Itera Fredrikstad

Lise Eastgate