500MW and No Receipts
AI data centres are the grid’s most significant new load. They’re also its least verifiable flexibility participant.
Sascha Janssen
Five Primitives No One Assembled
A minimum viable architecture for flexibility market verification exists in pieces. Here is how they fit together.
The Integration Gap
The engineering primitives for verifiable flexibility settlement already exist. The industry just hasn’t picked them up yet.
The Witness Problem
What a flexibility settlement record has to prove — before anyone argues about who builds it.
The Referee Can't Keep Score
Why nobody in the energy market can build the verification layer — and why that seat will be created anyway.
The Aggregator’s Dilemma
Why no aggregator can verify what they delivered — and why a €71 billion market can't afford that.
The Number Nobody Can Verify
Energy settlement depends on baselines — calculated numbers that no party can independently prove were correct at the time.