Grid Services and VPP Solution
The Grid of the Future, Today

Accelerating the transition to a renewable, more stable, and cost-effective grid
Promoting a new model of energy generation, SolarEdge grid services deliver near real-time aggregative
control and data reporting, enabling the pooling of distributed energy resources — photovoltaic systems,
battery storage, electric vehicle chargers, and loads — in the cloud for the creation of virtual power plants.
The SolarEdge grid services and VPP solution provides sophisticated management platforms to enablereal-time, aggregated control of available energy resources to meet ever-changing supply needs anddemand.

Flexible, Reliable,
Scalable Power Supply

SolarEdge Solutions for Grid
Services and Virtual Power
PlantsUtilities can avoid building costly and often
underutilized network infrastructure by leveraging
pooled energy in VPPs to instantly overcome local
supply shortages.
This type of solution also provides the flexibility togradually increase storage capacity to meet growing
demand, and allows the utilities to utilize the pooled
power to compensate for gap between demand/
supply as it evolves over the years.

As a leading hardware vendor, SolarEdge has
extensive experience with monitoring and controlling
Distributed Energy Resources (DER), including PV
inverters, residential storage, and EV chargers, andis ideally positioned to provide utility customers
technical access to new systems, and a large installedbase.

Meeting Energy Supply Shortages

SolarEdge Offerings
SolarEdge’s Grid Services API

SolarEdge Cloud Interface for Network Operators

Hedging Against Pricing Volatility

Energy retailers can reduce costs during peak pricehours by facilitating access to stored energy andinterruptible loads through automatically discharging
energy, or removing demand to reduce consumption
based on price signals.

SolarEdge Cloud Interface for Retailers and Market Participants

Maintaining Grid Stability

Network operators can use pools of PV systems,
batteries, and EV chargers to instantly, andautomatically, modify generation or consumption tostabilize grid frequency and voltage.

Integrates with third-party software interfaces via adedicated grid services API
Near real-time control and data reporting for large
groups of resources (1000’s)
Controls batteries, EV chargers, water heaters,thermostats, etc.
Cloud-based
Aggregative
Can control SolarEdge, and non-SolarEdge systems
Curtailment as a Service – control grid export ofaggregated PV systems at times and levels needed.
Applicable for both residential and commercial sites

Site level curtailment on commercial site

SolarEdge Cloud Interface
Provides a dedicated customizable cloud interface for
Virtual Power Plants
Use-case focused user interface
Forecasting and optimization algorithms
Integration with 3rd party hardware (including
thermostats, residential batteries and solar inverters)
Interfacing with other systems (grid-responsive,
price-responsive, weather-aware, load-responsive)SolarEdge Grid Services API Specifications

The API offers advanced features enabling effective management and monitoring ofindividual or aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) according to the fleet
operator’s business and technical objectives.
Key Features
Arrange DERs in customer-meaningful groups (e.g. network hierarchy/utility programs, DERs type,etc.)
Dynamically update groups by adding/removing/= moving sites and DERs
Control and monitor groups of DERs as a single
virtual resourceInverters
Set power flow configurations and limits
Set curtailment event with rapid sub-minuteresponse time
Set operating curve settings or limited-time
eventsVolt-Var and Volt-Watt operating curves
Dynamic Power Factor
Frequency regulation settings
Report fleet metrics
Total DER generation
Grid Voltage measurements
Current export/import readings
Batteries
Charge/discharge groups at a set power for a set
durationSet battery modes (backup, maximize selfconsumption, disable)
Set battery energy reserve

Loads
Curtail EV charging load (group or individual chargerlevel)
Convenience APIs
Reporting on all DERs listed under the utility
account
Reporting on supported commands andmetrics per DER type
Easy to use — utilizing standard JSON contentand RESTful patterns
Near real time fleet management(response in a few seconds, network
dependent)
Flexible, near-real time reporting interval(down to 1 minute)High availability uptime, 24/7
Easy and quick onboarding process
Utilizes utility-level security standards
GSM data plans for higher reliability
Pre-requisites
SolarEdge Energy Bank battery, LG Chem RESUbatteries and other qualified batteries.
Access to inverters not owned by the API Licensee
requires system owner’s consent.

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Bringing Value for all Stakeholders
Joining a shared energy economy offers benefits toall stakeholders: utilities have the tools to leverage
distributed energy generation systems, energy retailers
can enjoy protection from price peaks, and PV systemowners have an additional source to increase theirrevenue

Retailer/Market Participants

Distribution/Transmission Utility
Unlock the flexibility of distributed energy
generation systems to more efficiently meetdemand
Grid stabilization
Advanced automation and control
Increased efficiency
Resilient electricity networks
Meet energy supply shortages

Meet demand with a pool of distributed
batteries rather than with energy purchased atmarket prices
Energy stability
Protection from energy price peaks
Energy price reduction
Opportunities for new services tocustomers

Households
Receive compensation while enjoying flexible,
green energy
Maximize self-consumption
New customer choices to produce and 		sell excess energy through access to the 		new shared economy

To learn more about SolarEdge innovative grid solutions, contact amember of our solutions team at: gridservices@solaredge.com
www.solaredge.com
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