AI Energy Orchestration – Generation, Demand, Storage and Energy Markets

Arkco forecasts generation, load and market prices, then optimises dispatch, trading and storage in real time, for asset owners in front of the meter and energy users behind it.

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Every 15-minute block, steered to its best commercial outcome.

Revenue dispatch envelope· Illustrative

Actual outputArkco schedule ± DSM bandWithout Arkco: day-ahead schedule, no revisions

Block

14:30

Arkco schedule

90.0MW

Actual

97.3MW

Deviation

+7.3MW

Inside band

Last revision

13:30

9 revisions so far

Arkco's proprietary AI forecasts output and prices to set day-ahead schedules and bids, then uses nowcasts to revise schedules and trade in the real-time market before every gate closure, steering each block to the best commercial outcome: minimum DSM, maximum trading revenue, contracted output delivered.

Blocks inside band

Arkco 94/96

Day-ahead only 41/96

India pilot, 126 MW wind: DSM penalties 45% lower and forecast error 27–30% lower than benchmark.

Problems we solve

India's grid is entering a new operating reality

Tighter DSM bands, RTC and FDRE obligations, volatile markets and rising peak costs are compressing decision time. Spreadsheet-era operations can't keep up.

For RE IPPs and hybrids

Deviation and dispatch risk

Tighter DSM bands and RTC/FDRE obligations turn every 15-minute block into a penalty risk.

Outcome

Schedules revised before every gate closure, lower DSM exposure, bankable output.

For IPPs, BESS owners, traders

Market volatility

Prices swing across DAM, RTM and GDAM faster than manual bidding can follow.

Outcome

Higher, more predictable trading and BESS revenue, with fewer penalties.

For C&I and heavy industry

Peaks, procurement and flexibility

Unmanaged peaks, contract demand charges and complex procurement inflate landed energy cost.

Outcome

Lower landed cost, controlled peaks, and flexibility that earns VPP revenue.

And the rules keep moving

CERC DSM revisions, GNA, CEA cyber rules: Arkco absorbs the change in the platform, so your operations scale without adding headcount.

Platform

One platform, both sides of the meter.

Arkco is built to utility-grade cybersecurity standards and designed for CEA's Cyber Security in Power Sector Regulations, 2026. Plant data is read-only, decisions go only where you approve, and every action is logged.

INSIDE THE ENGINE

Four intelligent layers

A SaaS-managed operating stack packaged for India’s renewable portfolio-level operations.

Layer 01

Forecast Engine

15-minute precision forecasting for solar, wind, price and load, with comparative economic trade-offs between markets.

Mature AI platform.

Layer 01

Forecast Engine

15-minute precision forecasting for solar, wind, price and load, with comparative economic trade-offs between markets.

Mature AI platform.

Layer 02

Robotic Trader

Automated bidding across DAM, RTM, TAM and bilateral markets, with LDC and merchant integration for seamless execution.

Fully automated.

Layer 02

Robotic Trader

Automated bidding across DAM, RTM, TAM and bilateral markets, with LDC and merchant integration for seamless execution.

Fully automated.

Layer 03

VPP Orchestrator

Intelligent dispatch of solar, wind, BESS and flexible loads while minimising DSM penalties and chasing price ceilings.

Portfolio dispatch.

Layer 03

VPP Orchestrator

Intelligent dispatch of solar, wind, BESS and flexible loads while minimising DSM penalties and chasing price ceilings.

Portfolio dispatch.

Layer 04

RE Dispatch Control

Automated monitoring and risk self-healing for curtailment, penalty, re-bid and loop-control events across EMS and LDC.

Revenue optimised.

Layer 04

RE Dispatch Control

Automated monitoring and risk self-healing for curtailment, penalty, re-bid and loop-control events across EMS and LDC.

Revenue optimised.

The India Pilot

6 Months

Pilot duration

126 MW

India wind pilot

3,360

Data intervals

FORECASTING ACCURACY

Forecasting accuracy: ~30% better

27.45%

MAE improvement — day-ahead forecasts

29.57%

MAE improvement — 90-minute RTM

Day-ahead

90-min RTM

p < 0.001 • statistically validated

DSM PENALTY REDUCTION

45%

Reduction in DSM penalty exposure

44.9%

Pool-adjusted DSM

47.88%

SPV-level DSM

Key insight: the hybrid AI approach outperformed benchmark methods and improved commercial settlement performance across day-ahead and intraday horizons.

Track record

16 years in production. Advancing at Arkco.

Built by co-founder Timothy Edwards, Arkco's engine has run commercial dispatch for 16 years in Australia, one of the world's most volatile power markets, across up to 2 GW of solar, wind, BESS and embedded generation for mining, industrial and utility portfolios. Arkco is taking it further: India's DSM rules, IEX markets, SLDC and QCA scheduling and settlement are already built in, and new Arkco IP is extending what the engine can forecast, optimise and automate.

AUD 40.5M

saved over 7 years

160 MW mining operation

AUD 47M/ yr

savings and new revenue

470 MW alumina and steel load

AUD 9.2M/ yr

savings and new revenue

82 MW utility portfolio

4×

revenue uplift

Solar + BESS plant

Up to 2 GW managedAUD 100M+ delivered16 years in production

Deployment-ready use cases

Real-time AI dispatch optimisation across evolving weather, commercial, grid and settlement constraints.

Front of the meter

Asset owners

For wind, solar, hybrid and storage IPPs.

DSM optimisation

Forecasts and nowcasts revise schedules before every gate closure, keeping each block inside the Deviation Settlement Mechanism band.

RTC, FDRE and PPA compliance

Output shaped to contracted profiles, including peak-hour supply.

BESS dispatch and arbitrage

Charge and discharge timed across DAM, RTM and GDAM, within state-of-charge and cycle limits.

Market trading

Bids across DAM, RTM and bilateral markets, through your trader or your own exchange access.

Behind the meter

Energy users

Demand-side management, DER optimisation and virtual power plants (VPP) for heavy industry and large C&I consumers.

Demand-side management and demand response

15-minute load forecasts drive peak shaving, load shifting and demand response events, keeping drawal within contract demand and away from peak charges.

DER optimisation

Captive thermal, gensets, on-site solar and BESS committed and dispatched as one portfolio, within minimum-run, ramp and cost limits, and ready to join a VPP.

Procurement and landed cost

The lowest-cost mix of captive, renewable, exchange and grid power for every block.

Virtual power plant (VPP)

Behind-the-meter BESS and flexible load aggregated into a VPP, earning market, ancillary and demand response revenue on top of on-site savings, where markets and discom programmes allow.

Also for utilities and discoms: block-level load, RE and storage forecasts for congestion, DSM and banking decisions.

BESS Optimiser

Turns battery storage into a flexible, revenue-generating asset by combining optimisation, market access and lifecycle-aware control. BESS participates across arbitrage, ancillary markets, FDRE/RTC output shaping and DSM mitigation.

Production ready

THE ARKCO TEAM

Meet our founders

Experienced renewable-energy and power-market operators building the operational AI layer for India’s next energy cycle.

Sidharth Charkha — Cofounder and CEO

Sidharth brings 16+ years of experience in renewable energy and automation sectors. An engineer and alumnus of IIM Indore, he led Mahindra Susten’s international foray into Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. He has worked extensively and developed products in IoT and SCADA domains and been a cofounder of an Agritech startup. He brings his product development experience, industry expertise and deep professional networks supporting business growth and strategic partnerships.

Timothy Edwards — Cofounder and CTO

Timothy brings 35+ years of deep technical and leadership experience across Australia’s energy and mining sectors. A qualified electrical engineer, he led multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects and pioneered AI-based energy forecasting. His patented innovations in predictive analytics have matured and are harmonising large scale renewable portfolios over 16 years in Australia's complex grid, for which he has been awarded 'WA Innovator of the year' and has many publications on predictive AI for energy and Energy efficiency to his name.

CONTACT

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For a live platform demo, pilots or partnerships, send your details and the Arkco team will respond directly.

contact@arkco.ai

Arkco Private Limited,

Level 11, Platina, C-59, G-Block BKC, Bandra (East), Mumbai 400051.

+91-22-6884-1418