Huawei Digital Power Spain and Spock have sealed a strategic alliance to drive growth in the residential battery segment through optimizing energy management and delivering more efficient and integrated solutions to end customers. Leveraging Spock’s Energy Management System (EMS) solutions, the two companies aim to improve system performance and respond to the growing demand for home energy storage solutions.
Both Huawei Digital Power Spain and Spock have been working together for months and have already certified the connection and operation of Spock’s algorithm on Huawei batteries. After this process, the service is now launched for production use. The service will be available for all Huawei batteries installed in Spain, including both existing units and new installations, without the need to replace equipment or make changes to the installation.
New capabilities for residential battery management
A battery that isn’t smart simply stores energy. An Energy Management System (EMS) enables optimizing the operation of the battery at home, shifting consumption to hours of lower demand. In Spock’s AI-powered system, it learns the user’s consumption profile and automatically adapts charging and discharging cycles based on the contracted tariff.
With this new version of the system, capabilities are expanded by connecting the battery to the Spock platform. In this way, it stops operating in isolation and begins coordinating with the rest of the batteries integrated into the grid, also participating in flexibility markets. This allows the system operator to adjust consumption at certain times in exchange for compensation, thus adding functionality beyond an individual EMS.
Savings and participation in flexibility markets
The model makes it possible to optimize users’ energy consumption, shifting it to the most economical time windows and facilitating access to more competitive tariffs. It also incorporates a network effect: as the number of flexible users connected to the platform grows, the aggregated benefits earned in the flexibility markets also increase, which can be passed on as discounts on the electricity tariff. The bigger the community, the more each person saves.
This type of collaboration responds to a growing trend in the energy sector, where alliances between technology and energy companies are increasing, driving innovation and the relevance of integrated energy solutions.
The model benefits both users and the electrical grid. On one hand, it helps reduce households’ energy costs; on the other, it provides the grid with an additional resource of flexibility that offers greater stability and sustainability of the system. Moreover, it is a scalable model that can be replicated in other European markets.
In the words of Gavin Zhao, Managing Director of Huawei Digital Power Spain: “This agreement represents a key step in expanding our value proposition and capturing new opportunities in the evolving energy market.”
For his part, Quim Falgueras, CEO of Spock, assures: “With Huawei, every new user contributing flexibility helps increase the collective benefit, and that benefit echoes to everyone in the form of a larger discount on their tariff. The larger the community, the more each person saves. It isn’t simply a better EMS; it is something unique in its class.”
