Product Updates

Monetizing distributed energy flexibility through intraday market trading

March 2, 2026
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Caterina Rudari

Podero Release Notes January-February 2026

We’re launching a new chapter in distributed energy monetization: intraday asset-backed trading.

Residential battery fleets can now participate in continuous intraday electricity markets in a fully automated, physically backed way, without hardware changes, without disrupting homeowners, and without requiring utilities to build new trading infrastructure.

This release builds on our existing day-ahead optimization product and extends it with real-time trading capabilities – generating additional value from assets that are already installed and connected.

Intraday Trading Enablement

Podero now enables utilities to monetize distributed battery fleets directly on European continuous intraday markets.

The system continuously monitors intraday price movements and re-optimizes battery schedules when market deviations create profitable opportunities. Instead of treating batteries as reserve providers or interruptible loads, this approach uses real, physical capacity as the backing for intraday positions. Every trade corresponds to a real, updated battery schedule that respects household usage and PV production. The total daily energy balance of the fleet remains naturally constrained: the system shifts energy across time rather than creating speculative exposure.

Intraday trading operates on top of the existing day-ahead baseline:

Day-ahead optimization captures daily price spreads.
Intraday trading captures additional margin when prices deviate during the trading day.

The result is a layered revenue model: baseline optimization plus intraday. Built-in safeguards ensure disciplined execution. Each trade must pass predefined risk thresholds – including minimum volume, positive expected margin, and slippage protection – before it is submitted to market.

Seamless Market Integration

Intraday asset-backed trading integrates directly with existing algotrader platforms, requiring virtually no additional integration effort. For utilities operating proprietary trading systems, Podero supports API-based execution workflows.

For existing Podero energy management customers, activating intraday trading is a configuration step rather than a new technical project.

We are launching intraday trading with residential batteries, the most deterministic and scalable distributed asset class. However, the platform is designed to extend to EVs and heat pumps, using the same aggregation and optimization architecture.