Charge Director — charge/discharge management · 🇮🇪 Ireland
The Charge Director turns the Day-Ahead price curve into a clear sequence of directives: charge when electricity is cheap, discharge when it is expensive, otherwise hold. Here is the real optimal schedule for today.
How does the Charge Director decide?
The Charge Director knows the full Day-Ahead price curve of the day and solves, by dynamic programming, the optimal physically feasible schedule of a 2-hour battery (1 MW / 2 MWh): state of charge stays between 0 and full, at most ±1 MW per interval, round-trip efficiency applied to discharge. The result is an upper bound (perfect forecast), not live trading.
Daily revenue ceiling
The most this 2-hour battery could earn today on the Day-Ahead market — pure arbitrage, excluding intraday and balancing services.
Directive schedule
Each line is a Charge Director decision derived from the day's real price curve.
| Interval | €/MWh | Directive | Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 227.5 | CHARGE | -227.50 € |
| 2 | 293.6 | DISCHARGE | 249.58 € |
| 12 | 117.2 | CHARGE | -117.16 € |
| 13 | 115.3 | CHARGE | -115.32 € |
| 18 | 180.0 | DISCHARGE | 153.03 € |
| 19 | 181.1 | DISCHARGE | 153.93 € |
Note: outside Germany, the Charge Director computes Day-Ahead arbitrage only. Intraday and balancing markets are currently available for Germany only.
Note: the schedule is an upper bound under perfect-forecast conditions based on the published Day-Ahead prices — a model calculation, not a real-time control signal.