Local control layer for electrical power
Using energy optimally, whenever the grid allows it.
Gridlinq controls heat pumps, batteries and other flexible energy assets locally and matches their power to generation, building demand and available electrical capacity.
From an individual connection to street and neighbourhood.
03 — GRID
RoadmapLV TRANSFORMER / FEEDER
Provides a capacity envelope, not direct control of assets.
02 — STREET
ResearchN1
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AVAILABLE POWER
25 kW
01 — HOME
CoreHEAT PUMP
3 kW
BATTERY
5 kW
PV
4 kWp
EV
11 kW
The challenge
More electrical devices. The same connection.
Electrification mainly adds power: a heat pump, a charge point and a battery together quickly demand more kW than a connection can deliver.
These devices operate independently and do not know each other's load. The result is simultaneity — peaks that neither the home nor the street needs.
Simultaneity
Heat pump, EV charger and hot-water cylinder start at the same moment.
Generation and demand diverge
Solar power arrives midday; heat demand peaks in the morning and evening.
Power headroom is unknown
Installations do not know how many kW are still free behind the connection.
Power
Not only energy. Above all power.
A connection does not have a kWh problem but a kW problem: at any single moment only a limited amount of power fits through it.
Gridlinq continuously determines how much power headroom is free and allocates it across the flexible assets — with a hard power limit as the boundary condition.
Gridlinq organises power.
HOME · 3 × 25 A
≈ 17.3 kW connection capacity
- CURRENT BASE LOAD
- 4.2 kW
- AVAILABLE POWER HEADROOM
- 8.5 kW
- 3 kW
Heat pump
- 5 kW
Battery
- 11 kW
EV charger
WITHOUT COORDINATION
19 kW simultaneous
EXCEEDS THE CONNECTION
WITH GRIDLINQ
8.5 kW allocated
HP 3 kW · EV 3 kW · BATTERY 2.5 kW
The control layer
Not a dashboard. A local control layer.
Gridlinq measures at the connection and at the installations, computes the allocation locally and writes setpoints back through open protocols such as Modbus.
Price is one of the signals, not the starting point. The physical limit comes first.
TRADITIONAL EMS
price → optimise asset
Responds to a tariff, not to the physical headroom in the installation or the grid.
GRIDLINQ
capacity + demand + generation + comfort → coordinate assets
Controls on what is physically available and distributes it across multiple assets.
Thermal flexibility
Heat is flexibility.
A heat pump does not need to consume exactly the same amount of electricity every minute.
A building, floor heating and a hot-water cylinder can store heat temporarily within comfort limits.
Gridlinq uses this thermal flexibility to shift electrical power toward moments when solar power is available, the connection has headroom, the neighbourhood load is lower or energy is favourably available.
Comfort is the constraint. Flexibility is the result.
Control levels
From connection to neighbourhood.
Home
Gridlinq controls one home or building.
- IN
- P1PVtemperatureheat demandbattery SOC
- OUT
- heat pumpbatteryEV chargerother flexible assets
Street
Multiple Gridlinq nodes coordinate their available power.
- IN
- available street capacity: 25 kW
- OUT
- Home A → 4 kWHome B → 7 kWHome C → postpone hot waterHome D → battery absorbs solar surplus
Grid
A feeder or LV transformer provides a capacity constraint or envelope. Gridlinq translates it into local flexibility.
- IN
- capacity envelope feeder / LV transformer
- OUT
- local power allocationsetpoints per asset
Example: street level.
Nodes report their flexible power and each receive their own power limit. The allocation happens locally; the grid only provides the limit, not device control.
Available flexible power, street
25 kW
- Home AHeat pump — setpoint 4 kW4 kW
- Home BBattery charging7 kW
- Home CHot water postponed 30 min0 kW
- Home DSolar surplus stored locally14 kW
Allocation based on a local capacity signal — architecture in development.
Technology
Local first. Cloud connected.
Control runs on a local controller. If the connection to the cloud drops away, the control keeps working within the configured limits.
Measure
P1, local metering, inverter, temperature and battery SOC.
Decide
Power limits, priority and comfort limits determine the allocation.
Control
Setpoints over Modbus TCP/RTU and APIs, with a defined fail-safe state.
Old infrastructure. New function.
Gridlinq is researching whether decommissioned gas infrastructure can be reused as a route for fibre or data communication between homes and the local low-voltage infrastructure.
Research concept / Living Lab
Development partners
Developed in practice.
Gridlinq is open to collaboration with heat pump manufacturers, battery and inverter suppliers, grid operators, software companies and research organisations.
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