Automous

Automous is an Aalto University spinoff from 6 years of deep tech research on electricity market price forecasting, energy asset modelling and optimal scheduling and cross-market bidding of energy assets. During our time in the IT in Automation group, Electrical Engineering and Automation dept., we have investigated numerous AI and non-AI technologies, which we combine to achieve the best fit with the customer problem, considering the availability of relevant data. At this time we have commercialized OptiBid, a cross-market optimizer for grid-scale battery storages, using electricity price forecasts from our ElePrice system. We consider both Nord Pool or EPEX markets and ancillary markets, as well as other co-located assets such as photovoltaic generation. OptiBid considers battery status, market price forecasts, and generation/consumption forecasts for co-located assets. It outputs a bidding plan for all of the markets. Usually, our customers submit the bids themselves or via a 3r...