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VIC1Archived dispatch - high-solar spring weekday300 MW / 450 MWh

Storage that
trades itself.

Voltaic forecasts wholesale prices and auto-dispatches utility-scale batteries across the NEM, ERCOT and EPEX - charging into negative solar troughs, discharging into the evening spike. Buy low in teal, sell high in amber.

Time23:55Spot$49/MWhDispatch0 MWCaptured$497kLiveconnecting
-$100$0$100$1,0000006121824-$119$4,720/MWh
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Charged 13:00
-$119/MWh
Discharged 18:30
$4,720/MWh
Best 5-min interval
$114k
Session P&L
$497k
NEMNSW1$184+6.2%NEMVIC1$162+4.1%NEMQLD1$78+1.4%NEMSA1-$34-2.7%NEMTAS1$71+0.3%ERCOTHB_HOUSTON$41-1.1%ERCOTHB_WEST$28-3.4%EPEXDE_LU$96+2.2%EPEXFR$88+1.7%

The business model

How a battery makes money

One trading day, three moves. Buy energy when it is worthless, sell it when the grid is desperate - and let the optimiser time every megawatt to the cent.

  1. 01

    Forecast the price

    Every five minutes, Voltaic forecasts wholesale prices across each region days ahead - blending demand, weather, solar, and constraint signals.

    5-min resolutionsettlement interval
  2. 02

    Charge cheap

    When solar floods the grid and prices go negative, the optimiser charges - the battery is paid to absorb energy nobody else wants.

    -$119/MWhbought at the trough
  3. 03

    Discharge into the spike

    As the sun sets and demand ramps, prices erupt. The battery discharges at full power into the peak, capturing the entire spread.

    $4,720/MWhsold into the spike

That single spread - bought below zero, sold into a four-figure spike - is the whole game. One five-minute interval did the heavy lifting.

$114kbest 5-min interval
$497ksession P&L
QLD1250 MWNSW1420 MWVIC1300 MWSA1180 MWTAS160 MW

The portfolio

One desk, every region

Voltaic dispatches a single portfolio across all five NEM regions at once - charging in the south while discharging up the seaboard, netted and optimised as one book.

1,210 MWunder management
1,815 MWhstorage capacity
14utility-scale sites
3markets live
chargingdischargingidle
$1.2Bwholesale energy traded
99.98%dispatch uptime
180msforecast-to-bid latency
4.3xvs. unmanaged arbitrage
“We went from watching five-minute prices on six screens to letting Voltaic dispatch the book. It captures the evening spikes we used to miss and never sleeps through a negative-price window.”
Head of Trading/600 MW storage portfolio, NEM

See your portfolio
trade itself.

Book a desk demo and watch Voltaic dispatch a day on your own assets - or open the live dashboard and see it running right now.