The Talemate Energy Platform makes your battery system intelligent and profitable by dynamically steering it based on real-time and forecasted data. Instead of static “if-then” rules, the platform continuously optimises your energy flows in several powerful ways:

• Smart energy market optimisation: By linking your system to your dynamic energy contract, the platform automatically charges your battery when prices are low or negative, and discharges when prices are high. This active buy-and-sell strategy on the EPEX SPOT market maximises your financial return.
• Maximising self-consumption: The platform aligns your consumption, solar production and battery behaviour to ensure you use as much free, self-generated energy as possible. It intentionally avoids peak shaving, as leveraging dynamic market prices delivers greater value than reducing the Flemish capacity tariff.
• Intelligent forecasting: Using weather forecasts and your consumption patterns from the past five weeks, the system predicts how much energy you will produce and use. It then plans charging and discharging ahead of time based on expected price fluctuations - for example, charging at cheaper night rates to cover higher morning prices.
• Optimal charging strategies: With day-ahead quarter-hour pricing, the Talemate Energy Platform selects the most profitable moments to charge and discharge. Your battery may, for example, sell energy during high-price periods and recharge when prices drop, always making sure you get the maximum value out of your system.

Our model is simple, transparent and fully designed to maximise your return. It consists of two components:

• Hardware & Installation: The installation of the complete Talemate Energy Platform - including the hardware hub - is either integrated into your battery system or purchased separately as an additional module.
• Software & Intelligence: The software layer, including all algorithms, updates and ongoing support, operate through a monthly licence fee.

This model enables you to recover the cost of your battery system much faster and then actively generate revenue by continuing to use the platform. You save on your energy bill by using your energy more efficiently, and you earn money by trading energy with the grid: consuming or charging when prices are low or even negative, and discharging when prices are high.

As a result, the ROI (Return on Investment) of your battery installation increases significantly. Depending on market prices, your battery usage and your consumption profile, the entire system pays for itself much more quickly - after which it continues to generate net financial value using the exact same automated process.

The Talemate Energy Platform works with a dynamic energy contract. This can be from any energy supplier that offers this type of contract.

The strength of the platform lies in its ability to respond intelligently to continuous price fluctuations on the energy market. A dynamic contract is essential for this, as energy prices are set 24 hours in advance with a specific price for every 15-minute interval. The Talemate Energy algorithms use these quarter-hour prices-combined with your supplier’s billing method for dynamic contracts-to plan the optimal charging and discharging strategy for your battery and maximise your financial benefit.

Some suppliers choose to aggregate market prices into hourly rates for their dynamic contracts. However, to optimise your battery’s behaviour as precisely as possible, the Talemate Energy Platform always uses the most detailed data available: the quarter-hour prices. This may cause a minor difference between the prices shown in the app and those on your supplier’s invoice, but the impact on your total savings is negligible. The platform also takes grid fees and taxes into account, ensuring fully accurate information regardless of your supplier.

A dynamic contract is not only more efficient, but also far more transparent: you pay the real market price plus a limited procurement fee.

A digital meter is technically required to use a dynamic energy contract.

Absolutely. The Talemate Energy Platform is designed to give you full transparency and control at all times. Through an intuitive dashboard in the mobile app, you have real-time insight into your energy consumption, battery status and the savings you generate - wherever you are. This ensures you remain in charge of both your usage and your energy costs.

You can also personalise your dashboard to track the data and statistics that matter most to you. While the system operates intelligently and automatically, you as the user always remain in final control of your energy decisions.

The Talemate Energy Platform is designed for any owner of a battery system-or any provider of battery systems-who wants to achieve optimal returns by maximising self-consumption and leveraging dynamic energy market prices. The platform enables every battery owner to unlock the full potential of their energy storage. This results in automated savings and additional revenue opportunities.

For providers of battery systems, Talemate Energy offers a great opportunity: the platform is fully compatible-or can be made compatible-with virtually any existing battery setup. This allows integrators and manufacturers to enhance their hardware with a state-of-the-art software layer, delivering intelligent, profitable and future-proof energy management to their customers with minimal effort.