Existing connection
Grow past the connection limit.
100%peak load vs connection
The battery serves the peaks and recharges in between. No bigger connection needed.
GridBattery
Firm power from the grid that’s already built.
We turn constrained grid connections into firm, bankable power for data centres, charging hubs and power-constrained industries. In months, by raising utilisation of existing networks.
Power in months
No new network
Grid-code ready
Across the economy, power access is a constraint on growth.
“… We are now a power-limited industry.”
“The physical grid cannot keep pace with societal ambitions and developments …”
“Securing access to high-power electricity is critical for our planned transition.”
“Power is the single most fundamental constraint that we face.”
Electricity is holding back growth across the global economy
“The biggest issue we are now having is not a compute glut, but it’s power …”
UK data center turns to gas as Burnham moves to fix grid delays
“… major delays impacting billions of pounds of potential infrastructure projects …”
“We would probably build out bigger clusters … if we could get the energy to do it.”
The ‘substantial bottleneck’ slowing the growth of the UK’s EV charging network
“Everything is going electric and electricity infrastructure needs to grow massively everywhere.”
“… the next shortage will be electricity.”
Capacity
Two ways we add capacity to the grid you already have.
We size a battery to the few hours the network can’t serve.
New connection
Connect early on flexible terms, made firm.
30%of the connection firm
Covering the network’s short dips lifts firm capacity from 30% to 78%.
GridFirm limitCurtailed hoursCovered by battery
Sectors
Built for loads that are waiting on the grid.
Critical industries of the future run on electricity and are bottlenecked by power access.
Data centres
AI and cloud sites, where months to power are worth the most.
EV charging hubs
Fleet depots that need megawatts on a fixed date.
Manufacturing and logistics
Factories and logistics hubs electrifying heat, process and fleets on the connection they already have.
System
Four layers, run as one system.
Sized, operated and underwritten together, so the site sees one firm connection.
We start from the connection: an existing one, or a flexible offer. We model its constraints and translate them into probability distributions of the hours it can’t serve.
- No reinforcement, no new network
- Curtailment risk as a distribution, hour by hour
Then the load: how many megawatts, what shape, and by when. A data centre, charging hub or factory that should run unchanged.
- Load profile and flexible demand mapped
- Firm power at the meter, nothing asked of the load
Sized to close the gap between the two, not to the whole load. Shifting flexible demand makes it smaller.
- Chiller and EV charging controls
- Ramp control and fault ride-through
- Trades the rest of the year
Forecasts the network, runs the battery and prices the risk. What we underwrite is what we run.
- Simplified offtake agreements, built with banks from the start to be finance-grade
- Underwritten firm capacity
- Dispatch and trading
Capabilities
Load-side storage, configured to get more from the grid.
One battery at the point of connection, doing five jobs at once.
01Connect
Curtailment bridging
Flexible connections arrive years before reinforcement, with a few restricted hours a year. The battery carries the site through them.
- Sized to
- Forecast restrictions, not a static limit
- Modelling
- Gigawatts more load can connect at under 1% of hours curtailed
- Outcome
- Power on a flexible offer, years ahead of reinforcement
02Comply
Ramp control and fault ride-through
Large loads can swing sharply within seconds. The battery smooths the ramps and rides through voltage dips.
- Ramp rate
- Import held inside the agreed envelope
- Faults
- Rides through dips without dropping off
- Outcome
- Shorter grid studies and more viable connection points
03Protect
Backup power
When the grid fails, the battery keeps critical load running until supply or standby generation returns.
- Reserve
- Charge held back for outages, never traded
- Sized to
- The critical load and how long it must run
- Outcome
- Critical load stays up through a grid outage
04Support
Capacity contribution
At system peak, when margins are tightest, the battery serves the site and relieves the network around it.
- When
- System and local network peaks
- Markets
- Capacity Market and DNO flexibility
- Outcome
- Contracted income from the same asset
05Earn
Flexibility and trading
Most of the year the network is unconstrained, so spare capacity is traded around the site’s own needs.
- Markets
- Wholesale and the Balancing Mechanism
- Run by
- Neura’s dispatch optimiser
- Outcome
- Trading income that lowers the site’s energy cost
Costs
Filling the grid we’ve paid for lowers everyone’s bill.
Network costs are mostly fixed. Push more energy through the same wires and the cost of each unit falls, for every customer on them.
What makes up an electricity bill
Network costs are expected to grow to a third of bills.
Today
2030 est.
Estimates put network charges at roughly a third of the bill by 2030, up from about a fifth today, as grids are reinforced for new demand and renewable generation.
Hover overTap a segment to see its share. Estimates for a typical GB household; source: electricitybills.uk
Network cost per unit
Same wires, more energy, lower cost.
−17%per unit, with 20% more energy
Waiting for the grid? See how we can help.
Tell us about a site or a pipeline. We’ll show you what it could support.
Email
info@neura.energy
Office
Grassroots Workspace
46 Woodstock Road
Oxford OX2 6HT
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