A battery that only trades day-ahead spreads leaves most of its value on the table. The economics of storage come from stacking several markets at once and letting an optimiser choose the highest-value use for every cycle.
The four revenue streams
FCR (Frequency Containment Reserve) is contracted weekly and provides stable, predictable revenue. aFRR (automatic Frequency Restoration Reserve) is higher-value, fast-response balancing. Spot trading captures day-ahead spreads and intraday price spikes. And imbalance participation buys and sells at settlement prices in real time.
Batteries under Samawatt management in Switzerland average around €18k per MW per year across these stacked streams.
From merchant to bankable
Lenders won't finance volatile merchant revenue. SamaGreenBatt, Samawatt's proxy hedge, converts the stacked merchant revenue into a transparent, bankable stream that supports debt service coverage — without giving up the upside. Request the free Battery Optimisation Report for a cycle-level model of your project.