Solutions → Revenue Management
Active trading.
Fixed income.
Market risk ours.
Basis manages electricity market exposure so your project earns a fixed, bankable income — not a forecast.
Most battery optimisers manage your market participation. Basis does that too — but as your contracted revenue counterparty, our trading decisions and your fixed payment are one and the same.
Why Active Optimisation Matters
The NEM Rewards Those Who Can Respond in Real Time
NEM electricity prices are set every five minutes. Prices can move from near zero to the market price cap within a single trading day, driven by demand, renewable output, network conditions, and competitor behaviour.
Battery storage assets generate value by charging when prices are low and discharging when they are high — but capturing that value consistently requires continuous, active market management calibrated to each asset. Without it, a material portion of potential revenue goes uncaptured.
NEM Spot Price — Illustrative 24hr
The Vol-OS Platform
Physics-Based Optimisation,
Built for the NEM
Vol-OS is Basis Energy's proprietary dispatch and pricing engine. It simulates dispatch at five-minute granularity — incorporating FCAS bid stacks, network constraints, non-linear battery degradation, and generator bidding behaviour — anchored to Tier-1 independent market forecasts including Aurora and Baringa.
Vol-OS operates at five-minute granularity, anchored to Tier-1 independent market forecasts, and accounts for the specific physics of each asset — contracted capacity, round-trip efficiency, cycle limits, and degradation trajectory.
The Shadow Benchmark
Vol-OS produces the Shadow Benchmark: the theoretical maximum revenue a specific asset could earn in a given period. The Shadow Benchmark prices the swap before the contract is signed. Once the asset is operating, it becomes the monthly audit standard — calculated against actual settled NEM data, specific to your asset.
Ownership & Responsibility
Developers Retain Ownership
and Technical Responsibility
Developers entering a Revenue Swap Agreement with Basis retain full ownership of the battery and technical responsibility for its operation — availability, performance, and physical upkeep remain with the project. Basis manages everything above that layer.
The legal framework is built on the ISDA 2002 Master Agreement with the AFMA Electricity Addendum. If Basis were ever to cease operating, the trading arrangement with the market intermediary novates directly to the project company — ensuring uninterrupted continuity. Your asset is never stranded.
Integrated with Revenue Swap Agreements
One Platform.
Trading and Contract Aligned.
Because Basis Energy acts as both the market participant and your contracted revenue counterparty, trading decisions and contractual obligations are structurally aligned. Cycling intensity, degradation, and long-run asset performance feed directly into dispatch strategy — not just short-term price capture.
Your Fixed Amount is contracted. It does not vary with market conditions. Basis Energy manages the market exposure — you receive the agreed payment.
This is not a software service layered over a separate financial contract. The trading platform and the Revenue Swap Agreement are one integrated structure, with Basis Energy accountable for both.
Performance Transparency
Shadow-Reconciled Reporting,
Every Month
Assets under Revenue Management receive monthly performance reporting reconciled against the Shadow Benchmark. Performance is auditable, not taken on trust.
Discuss Revenue Management
for Your Project
Basis engages with developers as projects move toward Financial Close, and with investors evaluating swap counterparty risk. If you are working toward a BESS project in the NEM, we are happy to walk through the structure.