Price Incentives Program

Participate in balancing the local energy grid by acting on price incentives. When our forecast shows the need to change behavior in a local part of the grid, the Energy Coordination API will create a PriceCurve event to incentivize partners to either shift energy usage to more favorable hours like solar production surplus, or away from hours where the grid is strained.

You are not required to respond to these events, but if you do, you will get compensated.

Get started with Price Incentives

1. Create webhook subscriptions

   You should set up a webhook to receive event notifications from the API. This allows your system to be notified when an event occurs.

   The events you should be listening to for this program are Price Curve Events and User Eligibility Events.

   Webhook Subscriptions Learn how to set up a webhook to receive events

2. Enroll eligible users

   Only certain users will be eligible to participate in the price incentive program, indicated by their eligibility status. You will receive updates to eligibility changes in the UserEligibility-event. Once a user is eligible and enrolled, they will be able to receive price curve events.

3. Act and report on price curve events

   After you react to an event, you must report the resource usage back to the API. This is done by sending a report.

   Reporting Energy Usage Learn how to send reports on energy usage

4. Test in sandbox using simulated events

   You can generate simulated userEligibility and priceCurve events to test your webhook integration in the sandbox environment.

   Simulate Events Learn how to simulate events

5. Test in sandbox using testing area

   To fully test the integration of priceCurve events you can place selected locations within the testing neighbourhood in sandbox, using coordinates. This will ensure your user becomes eligible and receive daily priceCurve events for resources in selected locations.

   Register locations in testing area Learn how to register locations in testing area