Energy Transitions podcast: Bringing industrial flexibility to market
Pamela Largue
Posted on: 18 February 2025
In this Energy Transitions podcast, Christoph Gardlo of ESFORIN, explains that industrial customers are looking to flexibility marketing to maximise their assets.
As baseload generation is replaced by intermittent renewables, volatile grid loads and price fluctuations are pushing industrial customers to rethink how they operate their assets.
In this episode of the Energy Transitions podcast, Pamela Largue spoke to Christoph Gardlo, COO and co-founder of ESFORIN, about how industrial customers are looking to flexibility marketing to maximise their assets in a way that provides grid stability and an economic advantage.
In this episode you will learn more about:
- The importance of industrial flexibility in the context of Europe's decarbonisation,
- Gamechanging moments in the last ten years impacting the availability of industrial flexibilities,
- Outlook for intraday markets considering different asset classes and Europe's greener generation profile,
- The changing mindset and bias of industrial asset owners,
- How industrials are integrating new energy strategies to maximise available assets and flexibility,
- The complexities of real-time trading and the influence of digitalisation and automation.
"I remember going to the first industrial prospect...and talking about algorithmic intraday trading in real time...the prospects basically stared at us and started laughing...That really has changed..." - Christoph Gardlo
This episode is brought to you in partnership with ESFORIN.
Join ESFORIN, 12-13 March at European Industrial Energy Days in Amsterdam, to learn more about how they are marketing controllable flexibilities profitably for businesses and the environment.
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Listen to previous episodes:
Greening US gas assets for a decarbonised future
Trust as the cornerstone of energy transformation
How utilities can leverage innovation to achieve technology breakthroughs
Read more about flexibility:
STUNNED project launched to advance energy communities flexibility
Call for regulatory predictability and flexibility to reboot the energy transition
Ensuring sufficient dispatchable capacity for the future energy system
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