Mar 05, 2025 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji
Swiss power company BKW Energy is collaborating with K51, a data center and waste heat repurposing startup, to integrate K51’s data centers into the balancing energy market.
The partnership will integrate K51’s data centers into the Swiss balancing energy market, merging the facilities together into a virtual data center, which will dynamically transmit real-time power availability to BKW Energy, which pools and markets this capacity for grid stabilization.
Jill Huber, business developer at BKW Energy, said: "With our product Energy Powerflex, a control energy pool, we bundle small-scale and variably available systems into a virtual power plant. This enables our customers with flexible systems to benefit from the attractive revenues in the control energy market, as they often do not have the required minimum output.
“Bundling makes it possible to exploit the rapidly growing potential for flexibility on the consumer side. This can be done, for example, through batteries, heat pumps, or, in this specific case, data centers.”
