Thursday, 8 October 2026

FlexiNews | Your monthly dose of energy flexibility – October 2026

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Just out of the oven! 🚀 The new edition is here now FlexiNews. After a September of dizzying change in the electric ecosystem, our monthly newsletter is packed with the keys to turning the energy transition into real business opportunities. Will we stop talking about megawatt figures on paper and step onto solid ground? 👇

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Latest energy sector news

🗳️ Spain 29-N: the impact of the electoral advance on the energy sector

The electoral advance to November 29 may trigger a temporary regulatory shutdown. With the dissolution of the Cortes, several key regulations for the energy sector may remain in limbo:

  • ⏸️ Storage and networks: The Capacity Market (vital for financing new batteries) can be postponed, as can the Electricity Planning 2025-2030.
  • 💻 Data Centers: The Royal Decree on Sustainability may slow down their progress.
  •  🧩 Independent aggregator: This key definitive regulation for flexibility could be at the expense of the next legislature.
  • ☀️ Self-consumption: Will the new Royal Decree be approved? in extremis in the Permanent Delegation?

This legislative pause leaves us with a great lesson: while regulation freezes, short-term markets and balance sheet services do not rest. Today more than ever, connecting your assets to a technological aggregator to make Revenue stacking Real-time is the only safe way to capitalize on your flexibility 🚀

What kind of profitability? Don’t stop reading and you’ll see the latest numbers from one of our VPPs in the “Bamboo News” section below 👇

You can learn more about this topic here: 🔗 The Energy Newspaper

🌍 Flexibility and Transparency: REE brings to light the demand map

Red Eléctrica has just published a key interactive tool to locate large consumption points and unlock flexibility.

  • 📍 The key figure: The map details 18.52 GW of access capacity to the transport network, broken down by location and type of consumption.
  • ⚡ The operational impact: Intensive developers (data centers, green H2, heavy industry) can now quickly identify the nodes with available capacity to connect.

Knowing the real congestion of the network is a brutal advantage. It allows us to precisely detect where there is a greater need to strategically locate flexible assets and maximize profitability.

Go deeper here: 🔗 Access the statement and interactive map on the official website of Red Eléctrica.

💫 The storage in its true form: from the idea to profitability

There is absolute consensus in the sector: batteries are the undisputed queens of the energy transition. However, it is time to stop talking about megawatts on paper and step onto solid ground. In a recent and highly recommended interview, Antonio Delgado Rigal (CEO of AleaSoft Energy Forecasting) explained the immediate future of BESS (Battery Energy Storage Systems) systems from his point of view:

  • The great challenge: The current bottleneck is getting the projects to happen. Financially accessible (bancables) and, finally, they are built. For investment funds to greenlight projects, they need long-term visibility and clear market signals that ensure return 🚀.
  • The Bamboo vision: Building and installing a battery is only the beginning of the story. For the numbers to come out, for the risk to go down, and for investors to trust, it is essential to implement a strategy of Revenue stacking (stacking revenues by operating in different markets simultaneously). Price arbitrage alone is not enough; we need to enter into adjustment services, capacity markets, and balance sheet reserves ⚡.
  • Bamboo Energy's contribution to the puzzle: That's exactly where we come in! Our technology for aggregation and optimization through artificial intelligence is the key piece that makes the difference between a project stuck in Excel and a highly profitable asset in the real world 🧩

Go deeper here: 🔗 Read the full interview in Energética XXI.

News from Bamboo Energy

📈 Case of Success: VPP in action (and in real numbers)

After several months of uninterrupted filming operating our Virtual Power Plant (VPP), We premiered our first dashboard Consolidated monthly report. During this period of operation, we have not only collected data, but have also upgraded the level of our tools:

  • 🖥️ New Front-End: an improved interface with data visualization optimized for agile decision-making.
  • ⚙️ Multi-Market Orchestrator: We keep improving our algorithm to achieve a bidding impeccable.
  • ⚡ Edge Optimizer: We made ultra-fast adjustments on-site, achieving 100% efficiency for all involved parties 🤝.

But let's get to what really moves the needle in the sector: How does this technology translate into profitability? Analyzing the operations of the last month of August of our simultaneous operation in 4 markets, the results speak for themselves:

  • 🔋 The impact of the battery: The storage alone generated a extra increase of 52.1% in the profitability of the plant compared to operating exclusively with photovoltaic (PV)! ☀️
  • 📈 Spectacular annual projection: We are talking about an almost 120,000 €/MW for the plant and some impressive ones 150,000 €/MW specific to the battery.
  • 🎯 Magic in the Revenue Stacking: The key is to squeeze every market. In just one month, the battery extracted value from the Diario market, the ID1, ID2, and topped it off with an extra in the ID3 💫.

And attention, because innovation doesn't stop. There are very powerful new developments coming from Bamboo Energy in the coming weeks. We'll keep you informed! 🚀

You can learn more about VPPs and Value stacking in our webinar: 🔗Renewable assets are losing revenue (and how to get it back).

Our latest interventions at industry events

At Bamboo Energy, we not only develop the technology that makes aggregation possible; we also work to get down to earth, share our vision, and build an ecosystem alongside the rest of the sector. In recent weeks, the Bamboo team has been at several key events 🚀:

⚡ The sector analysis with ENTRA

At the end of September, our CTO and co-founder, Cristina Corchero, He/She answered our call 🤝 partners From ENTRA Aggregation and Flexibility in the Workday «Operating Flexibility in Spain», held at the Spanish Energy Club in Madrid.

🌍 EFINTEC Barcelona: Demand flexibility rises like foam

Flexibility has ceased to be a niche concept to become the next major added-value service of the energy chain. To unravel how this translates into new revenues and resilience, our Co-founder and Product Owner, Mattia Barbero, He just participated this week in EFINTEC.

  • The highlight: Mattia moderated the vibrant roundtable «Demand flexibility: the next value-added service?», discussing how marketers, aggregators, installers, and end customers can bring intelligence to their assets to make them profitable 💫.
  • More info: Review the details of this edition on the EFINTEC website.

The value of sharing: our webinars in September

In addition, September has been an intense month of Webinars. If the schedule didn't give you a break and you missed them, we have good news: You can now relive them. Prepare the popcorn 🍿 and give it to him play:

The French market and VPPs: Monetizing PV + BESS fleets (C&I)

We teamed up with Elum Energy 🤝 to discuss how to connect and manage heterogeneous fleets, combining local optimization with access to flexible markets.

  • What are you going to discover? Key topics regarding multi-technology aggregation, self-consumption optimization, peak shaving and strategies of Revenue stacking.
  • The highlight: We analyze step by step a real simulation with a PV + BESS fleet of up to 250 kW in France.
  • To the commands: Basile Fraudeau (KAM at Bamboo Energy) and Eric Dewasmes (VP Sales at Elum).
  • 🎥 Revive it here: Access the recording (in French) in our Webinars section.

Spain and the SRAD 2027: The hidden business opportunity in your portfolio

We know that many commercial operators still view the Demand Response Active Service (SRAD) as an operational headache. In this session, we dispel myths and demonstrate how aggregation allows smaller assets to enter the first division ⚡.

  • What are you going to discover? All the necessary steps to participate in the SRAD and how to present an irresistible value proposition to the end customer.
  • The highlight: Real cases, lessons learned from the latest auctions, and a demonstration of how to scale the operation smoothly through a centralized platform 💫.
  • 🎥 Revive it here: Access the recording in our Webinars section.

What is to come

Touring Europe: our events in October

October is kicking off strongly in the European energy ecosystem 🌍. If you’re looking to scale your innovation, understand where the flexibility market is headed, or simply do the best you can, October is the month for you. networking B2B of the year, mark these dates in red:

⚡ Solar & Storage Live 2026: Appointment in Paris to discuss solar energy and storage.

🚀 The Business Booster (TBB) 2026The flagship European cleantech event organized by EIT InnoEnergy returns with more strength than ever to accelerate the industrial transformation towards the much-desired net-zero.

☀️ XIII UNEF Solar Forum: Defining the roadmap in MadridThe Spanish capital hosts the main national meeting of the photovoltaic and storage industry, where the main players will gather to discuss the key aspects of the future.

🎓 Evangelizing the market: Bamboo in the A3E Flexibility course

Last but not least, this month the Course on Demand Flexibility and New Electric Markets Organized by A3E (Association of Energy Efficiency Companies).

The current big challenge is that many of the companies that could most benefit from this flexibility are precisely the ones that know the least about how to operate it.

Our colleague Toni Company, Product Owner at Bamboo Energy, is part of the teaching team in this course and will bring his expert perspective right where the magic happens: at the exact intersection between cutting-edge technology and the electricity markets 💻⚡.

So you don't miss it:

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