In energy-intensive sectors such as chemicals, paper and food, a large share of energy demand goes into industrial process heat. It is usually delivered as hot water, steam or thermal oil and is central to processes such as drying, distillation and brewing.
Industrial heat generation runs mostly on natural gas, typically through gas boilers. Larger sites also use steam or gas turbines, often in combined heat and power (CHP). These systems are built for efficiency and security of supply. The first source of revenue is already here: turbines can be run optimized against the power markets.
Together with established boiler manufacturers and plant builders, Celsio extends the existing system with an electric boiler (power-to-heat), or retrofits one you already have. The result is a hybrid heat system that can switch between power and gas depending on current energy prices.
The hybrid system can optionally be extended with thermal storage or batteries to raise flexibility and the share of electrification further. Celsio integrates the storage into the system as a whole, together with specialist partners.
As an electricity supplier, Celsio takes on power procurement, market participation and optimization for your flexible assets in full.
As the share of renewables grows, periods of very low power prices occur regularly. In those windows heat is generated electrically, as soon as power is cheaper than gas.
In intraday trading, power prices move at short notice, through weather and forecast changes for instance. That volatility opens up additional revenue. Celsio adjusts heat generation dynamically and captures the short-term spreads.
By taking part in the balancing markets, flexible heat systems can help stabilize the grid and are paid for doing so. Celsio uses AI to work out when selling into the secondary balancing market is worth it.
We use AI to forecast the revenue available on every market and derive the optimal trading strategy for each flexible asset from it, re-decided every second. Forecasts for heat and power demand, and regulatory items such as atypical grid use, are priced in, and the monitoring dashboard shows you schedules and operating data at any time.
Celsio adjusts output automatically to the market, connected over established interfaces such as Modbus and encrypted end to end. You can report unavailability at any time and, where safety is at stake, simply override our signal.
As an electricity supplier with its own balancing group, Celsio buys the power for your electric boiler on the day-ahead, intraday and balancing markets and aligns every trading decision with heat generation. Your plant becomes a flexible energy asset rather than a pure consumer, with no added operational complexity.
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