Crude Awakening

Crude Awakening

AI-powered intraday energy trading optimization for EPEX SPOT 15-minute markets

5-12%Revenue Uplift
€40K-€144K/dayOpportunity
96Decisions/Day
11Tools Orchestrated
Enter Dashboard

4-Plant Portfolio

CCGT

Rheinhafen CCGT

430 MW

Wind

Nordsee Wind

350 MW

Solar

Bayern Solar

120 MW

OCGT

Isar Peaker OCGT

180 MW

Agent Capabilities

11 specialized tools orchestrated by the trading agent, organized across three workstreams

Data & Market

5 tools

Analyze Market Prices

Analyzes EPEX SPOT 15-minute intraday and day-ahead prices

Analyze Imbalance

Evaluates system imbalance prices and regulation states

Get Fuel Prices

Retrieves gas, CO₂, coal, and oil price data

Get Weather Data

Fetches weather observations and forecasts for plant locations

Get Renewable Forecast

Provides wind and solar generation forecasts with uncertainty bands

Plant & Portfolio

4 tools

Calculate Marginal Cost

Computes SRMC for thermal plants at various load points

Check Plant Constraints

Validates ramp rates, minimum stable load, and start costs

Check Contract Obligations

Verifies delivery obligations and tolerance bands

Check Grid Constraints

Monitors cross-border transmission capacity and congestion

Strategy & Compliance

2 tools

Generate Strategy

Produces optimized bid/offer strategies for the next trading window

Validate REMIT Compliance

Ensures all trades comply with REMIT II reporting requirements

Technology Stack

Built on AWS services for scalable, production-grade agent deployment

Bedrock AgentCore

Agent runtime, memory, and gateway for deployment

Strands SDK

Python agent framework with @tool decorator pattern

Amazon S3

Static asset hosting and data storage

CloudFront

Global CDN for low-latency content delivery