Electron x Rhythmos.io

Unlocking an affordable and reliable grid through value orchestration

See, prove, and capture the value of distributed energy resources (DERs) – turning them into real, measurable flexibility that grows your grid’s capacity and manages demand more affordably and reliably using value orchestration.

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Introducing Electron x Rhythmos

The first complete set of value orchestration capabilities, bringing DER visibility, validation, and value capture together in one defensible set of actions for utilities.

Rhythmos: Building the DER data foundation

  • Detects DERs with advanced analytics that quantify their location and impact at grid level.

Electron: Enabling the market feedback loop

  • Activates those DERs through proven flexibility marketplaces and programs, capturing value and generating continuous operational data.

Together: Value orchestration for the grid

  • Detection, validation, activation, and feedback, delivering defensible investment cases and measurable capacity at speed.

What is value orchestration?

Value orchestration brings data, markets, and grid operations together so utilities can see where flexibility exists, understand what it’s worth, and prove the value of every action they take. It connects technical performance with commercial and regulatory outcomes, ensuring every flexibility action delivers measurable, defensible benefits for the grid, consumers, and investors.

Why utilities need value orchestration

DERs can provide fast, low-cost grid capacity – but without visibility and credible data, utilities can’t prove their value against traditional solutions.

Hard to identify, activate, and measure the impact of DERs

Utilities struggle to identify what’s really out there, activate resources at the right time, and measure their true contribution. Data is incomplete, static, and spread across different systems, including third-party virtual power plants (VPPs).

Data silos block coordination for whole-system value

No common language across data points means planning, operations, and market teams struggle to align, with conflicting objectives. The result: missed opportunities and less capacity and value than the grid could deliver.

Regulatory proof is missing

Utilities need to demonstrate real, verifiable value and reasoning behind investment decisions, but today’s tools don’t provide the level of evidence regulators require.

What value orchestration can unlock

Visibility and impact of hidden flexibility

You’ll quickly see and understand the impact of hidden flexible resources using existing data. Act on continuous market insights to target upgrades, reduce program costs, and deliver lower energy costs for consumers.

Value of the grid for coordinated decisions

You can make coordinated decisions and increase grid and market value with the connected data and whole-system view from your VPPs, distributed energy resources management system (DERMS), and different teams.

Defensible business cases for grid reinforcement

You can prove why you’re deploying flexibility or reinforcing the grid with regulatory-grade data that shows the value of each action, whether to regulators, stakeholders, or internal teams.

Why distribution utilities choose us

These joint capabilities give utilities the confidence to act sooner, invest smarter, and deliver affordable, reliable electricity to customers by leveraging DERs.

Machine learning algorithms turn data you already have into grid-level DER visibility in weeks, not years.

Utilities can identify and visualise DERs and their impact fast, with a lightweight “grid-aware” solution using billions of data points they already have – then strengthen those insights with recurring data from markets, using price signals by time and location to standardise and incentivise DER enrolment.

This creates a live feedback loop, allowing operators to test, learn, and optimise fast rather than waiting for lengthy studies or pilots

Unify costs and benefits across existing programs, markets, and grid upgrades – and surface future opportunities for locational grid services.

Using the value orchestration technology doesn’t compete with your existing markets, VPPs, or DERMS; it connects and coordinates them.

Instead of having DER investments operate in isolation from grid needs, you’ll unlock their full potential through grid-market coordination where flexibility dispatch supports grid reliability. This approach eliminates the costly program cannibalisation that occurs when different departments compete for the same resources without knowing it.

Our platform enables operators to run and compare local flexibility markets alongside existing grid services and reinforcement options, creating a defensible, value-based common view for planning and operations when introducing new locational grid services.

The only solution providing granular, cost-effective regulatory proof of every investment decision

By combining continuous insight into DER impact with the coordination of our neutral layer, Electron provides regulators and utilities with ongoing proof of flexibility performance and investment decisions.

Through our value orchestration capabilities, utilities can attribute benefits at the DER level, reconcile them with system-wide programs, and generate auditable, data-driven justification for every action – from flexibility activation to grid reinforcement. This enables proactive, defensible investment decisions that withstand regulatory scrutiny on cost and prudence.

Proven adoption of marketplace software across the UK shows these solutions can deliver real-world flexibility at scale.

This means we can identify DERs, and then you can activate them. Our marketplace technology, ElectronConnect, will enable more than 7GW/h of reserved flexibility in the UK, helping grid operators to deploy flexibility where it’s needed most.

The aim is to deliver lower costs, greater resilience, and a faster path to a modern grid whilst remaining affordable.

How value orchestration works

Our value orchestration technologies are designed to bridge the gap between visibility and deployment. Transform invisible DERs into investable grid capacity – using the data you already have.

IDENTIFY AND QUANTIFY

Use existing utility AMI interval and AI/ML detection algorithms. Fast analysis from historical data provides defensible analytics in weeks – no new infrastructure required.

ACTIVATE AND SCALE

Deploy programs and markets where flexibility delivers most value, guided by location-specific data. This creates a common language around DER value, breaking down siloes across planning and operations.

MEASURE AND PROVE VALUE

Measure real performance against projections to prove their value, with granular regulatory grade reporting, to justify infrastructure decisions to regulators.

COORDINATION AND CLARITY

Solutions work alongside existing VPPs, DERMS, and aggregators – using grid-aware signals and coordinated activation to boost DER value and give utilities clearer visibility and control for regulatory and investment decisions.

ALIGNMENT AND ASSURANCE

Avoid costly mistakes and delays by ensuring all teams plan DER investments on shared insights – building stronger business cases with aligned input instead of conflicting priorities.

INSIGHT AND CAPACITY

Quantify data, like EV charging patterns, and available capacity from AMI data to support smarter demand management, program design, and operational decisions.

PLANNING AND RESILIENCE

Assess transformer loading and long-term grid impacts from DERs, such as from EV growth, to strengthen asset management, target investments, and maintain reliable system performance.

FAQs

Your existing systems are built to control DERs, but they can’t tell you where untapped value exists or prove ROI before deployment. The value orchestration technology works alongside your current tools, using AMI data to identify the DERs you can’t see and proving exactly where programs and markets will deliver value. Think of us as the intelligence layer that makes your existing systems more effective.

No. Our solution is designed to enhance, not replace. We create the intelligence layer that helps your current systems work smarter, whether that’s your DERMS, VPP platforms, or existing programs. We provide the “why” and “where” for your investments.

Traditional analytics require years of network modelling and complex integrations. We use the AMI data you already have to deliver actionable insights, fast. No power flow analysis or multi-million dollar deployments. Just rapid proof of where flexibility exists and what it’s worth.

Within weeks, we can identify hidden DERs using your AMI data. Within months, you’ll have location-specific business cases. Within a year, you’re running programs and/ or markets with proven ROI.

Value orchestration works for every utility type: whether you’re an IOU proving cost prudence to regulators, a municipal utility demonstrating community value to city councils, or a co-op maximising benefits for member-owners. All utilities must prove they’re using existing resources efficiently before raising rates or building new infrastructure. Value orchestration provides the data-driven evidence every stakeholder demands, from regulatory proceedings to board meetings to public forums.

Our platform adapts to your reality. The core capability remains the same: proving DER value with data everyone can defend.

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