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Unlocking U.S. Microgrid Potential with Value Creed

The Rise of Microgrids in the U.S. Energy Landscape

The U.S. energy landscape is shifting from centralized power plants to localized, self-sufficient microgrids that combine renewable energy sources, battery storage, and advanced controls to deliver reliable, sustainable power for communities, campuses, and businesses. Driven by rising outages, aging grid infrastructure, and climate-focused policies, microgrids are becoming a critical part of the energy mix, with the U.S. market projected to reach $24.4 billion by 2033 at a 13.3% CAGR. Supporting this shift, Value Creed’s implementation of Endur enables microgrid operators to manage energy flows, market participation, and operational complexity with greater control, turning resilient and sustainable strategies into market-ready operations.

Microgrids are compact, localized energy systems designed to operate either in conjunction with the main grid or independently in islanded mode. By combining renewables, storage, and smart controls, they ensure uninterrupted power during grid disruptions and provide tailored energy solutions across diverse use cases, from university campuses to remote communities.

Resilience Against Disruptions

Microgrids enhance resilience by operating independently during extreme weather or cyber events, ensuring continuous power for critical facilities.

Sustainability & Decarbonization

Microgrids integrate renewables like solar and wind, supporting decarbonization and aligning with corporate sustainability goals and climate policies.

Cost Efficiency & Market Access

Microgrids lower energy costs through efficiency gains while enabling
revenue generation via capacity markets such as PJM and CAISO.

Technology and Policy Enablement

Advances in smart controls, declining storage costs,
and supportive policies are driving the acceleration
of microgrid adoption
and scalability.

Value Creed’s Precision Microgrid Management through Endur Integration

Implementing Endur for microgrids requires precise alignment between operations, markets, and risk. Value Creed delivers this by configuring Endur specifically for microgrid business models, ensuring complex transactions, assets, and market participation are managed within a single, scalable platform.

Microgrid-Focused Endur Implementation

Microgrids involve diverse transaction types and asset interactions that are difficult to manage across siloed systems.

Value Creed models the full range of microgrid transactions in Endur, including physical power, swaps, transmission spreads, capacity instruments, PPAs, RECs, and demand response programs, enabling centralized and accurate deal management.

DER and Asset Modelling

Microgrids operate across heterogeneous assets with different performance characteristics and constraints.

We configure distributed energy resources such as solar, battery storage, and small-scale generation as distinct assets in Endur, enabling precise tracking of generation, dispatch, settlements, and performance at both asset and portfolio levels.

Loss, Storage, and Operational Constraint Modelling

Reliability challenges, power losses, renewable intermittency, and storage degradation introduce both operational and financial risk.

Endur is configured to reflect real-world microgrid behavior by modelling transmission and conversion losses, efficiency curves, battery degradation, state-of-charge limits, depth-of-discharge constraints, ramp rates, and islanded operations for accurate operational and financial outcomes.

Portfolio, Risk, and Analytics Enablement

Market volatility, nodal pricing exposure, and uncertain revenue streams require advanced risk visibility.

By integrating Endur, Value Creed enables portfolio management, CVaR-based risk analytics, Active Positioning Management, intraday simulations, and tailored reporting, delivering clear visibility into market exposure, operational risk, and the quantified value of resilience.

Market Integration and Trading Enablement

Accessing organized power markets introduces additional complexity through nodal pricing, congestion, and regulatory structures.

Value Creed enables seamless participation in CAISO, PJM, NYISO, and ERCOT by configuring nodal pricing, transmission spread modelling, exchange integration via ICE Futures Gateway, and flexible hedging strategies using forwards, futures, and options.

Real-Time Integration and Scheduling

Limited real-time data and manual scheduling reduce responsiveness and efficiency in both grid-connected and islanded operations.

Using Endur’s Data Series Module, OPS, TPM, cMotion, and API-driven integrations, Value Creed connects real-time operational data with trading, scheduling, and risk analytics, optimizing dispatch and reliability across grid-connected and islanded operations.

Custom Workflows and Scalability

As microgrids scale, operational complexity increases through new assets, market mechanisms, and commercial structures.

Through OpenComponents, custom deal types, and user tables, Value Creed extends Endur to support peer-to-peer trading, hybrid PPAs, and microgrid-specific risk factors, ensuring scalability as microgrids grow in complexity.

Benefits of Value Creed’s Endur Integration for Microgrids

Unified Operations and Transaction Control

All microgrid transactions across power, capacity, RECs, PPAs, and demand response are centralized, improving accuracy, visibility, and operational efficiency.

Revenue Optimization and Market Access

Multi-commodity support and structured access to markets like CAISO, PJM, NYISO, and ERCOT enable diversified revenue streams and effective monetization of surplus energy.

Accurate Performance, Loss & Asset Modelling

Realistic modelling of transmission losses, conversion efficiencies, storage behavior, and asset constraints aligns financial outcomes with actual microgrid operations.

Portfolio Optimization and Risk Reduction

A consolidated portfolio view, scenario analysis, and advanced risk analytics help optimize asset utilization while stabilizing revenues against price volatility and nodal risks.

Operational Resilience and Reliability

Proactive modelling of degradation, outages, and islanded operations improves reliability and quantifies the financial value of resilience.

Real-Time, Scalable Decision Making

API-driven data integration, optimized scheduling, and customizable workflows support real-time decisions and ensure scalability as microgrid complexity grows.

Unlock Microgrid Potential with Value Creed’s Advanced ETRM Solutions

Microgrids unlock resilience and sustainability, but real value is realized only when operations, markets, and risk are managed on a unified platform. Disconnected tools often lead to inefficiencies, limited visibility, and unmanaged exposure across increasingly complex microgrid environments.

Value Creed’s Endur integration unifies trading, portfolio management, risk analytics, and real-time operations into a single ETRM framework. Standardized workflows, automation, and scalable architecture improve control, optimize revenues, and strengthen resilience. The result is a future-ready microgrid operation that delivers reliability, sustainability, and commercial performance at scale.

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Unlocking U.S. Microgrid Potential with Value Creed

The Rise of Microgrids in the U.S. Energy Landscape

Resilience Against Disruptions

Sustainability & Decarbonization

Cost Efficiency & Market Access

Technology and Policy Enablement

Value Creed’s Precision Microgrid Management through Endur Integration

Benefits of Value Creed’s Endur Integration for Microgrids

Unified Operations and Transaction Control

Revenue Optimization and Market Access

Accurate Performance, Loss & Asset Modelling

Portfolio Optimization and Risk Reduction

Operational Resilience and Reliability