From contract to grid — energy optimised

Your supplier delivers energy. Your consultant helps you pick contracts and shape long-term strategy. Neither of them is watching your sites continuously, re-forecasting your load every 15 minutes, or executing your flexibility against the day-ahead and imbalance markets in real time. That operational layer is what we add — sitting on top of, not against, what you already have.

Aggregators typically focus on selling your flexibility into ancillary-services markets (FCR, aFRR, mFRR) and earn a fee on what they bid. Epon takes the broader view: ancillary services are one lever, but the bigger value usually sits in day-ahead and imbalance optimisation, contract structure, and capacity-tariff management. We can also work alongside your existing aggregator rather than replacing them.

All the relevant ones, across every horizon: forward (click contracts), day-ahead, intraday and imbalance for the energy itself, plus ancillary-services markets (FCR, aFRR, mFRR) where your assets qualify. We work with a network of suppliers, BRPs and BSPs and route each lever to the counterparty that captures the most value — so you're never locked into a single venue.

Hedging fixes the price of your forecast consumption. The savings — and the costs — live in the gap between forecast and reality: imbalance fees on deviations, peak charges on the new capacity tariff, and the load you could have shifted into cheaper hours. For a typical industrial site, that gap is worth single-digit to low-double-digit percentages of the energy bill, even on a fully hedged volume.

Flexibility doesn't mean shutting down production. In practice we find usable flex in batch scheduling, pre-cooling and pre-heating, BESS dispatch, on-site generation curtailment, EV charging, or small set-point adjustments on continuous processes. The first step is always a free assessment of your load profile — at the end of it, we tell you concretely what's worth pursuing and what isn't.

For most industrial sites we're operational within 4 to 6 weeks. We need read-access to your smart meter (AMR/MV-90) data and basic information about your contracts and flexible processes. No hardware installation is required for the forecasting and market-access layer; physical asset control (BESS, generators) involves standard SCADA/Modbus integration we handle together with your operations team.

You do. Epon issues signals — recommended dispatch, market actions, price-aware setpoints — but execution stays under your operational control unless you explicitly delegate it (for example, a service contract on a BESS). Production constraints are defined by you and never crossed by us.

Two models depending on the service: a transparent monthly fee on the total managed energy, and/or a shared-savings or performance fee on the value captured in the markets (demand shifting, BESS, injection). Concrete pricing is part of the initial proposal once we've seen your profile.

We work best with industrial operators and asset owners that consume or produce at GWh scale, have annual energy spend in the seven figures, and operate in Belgium (we focus on Belpex, ELIA balancing and Belgian capacity tariffs). If you fit that profile and you have any of: a PPA, a BESS, on-site flexibility, or rising imbalance exposure — there's almost certainly value to capture.