D.TRADING and Capalo AI Partner to Deliver Bankable Revenue Structures for Battery Energy Storage Assets
Helsinki and Amsterdam, 3 September 2026, D.TRADING, a leading European energy trading company, and Capalo AI, a pan-European battery optimizer and trader, have entered into a strategic partnership combining D.TRADING’s energy trading and structured offtake expertise with Capalo AI’s automated multi-market optimization capabilities for battery energy storage systems (BESS) and hybrid parks across Europe.
The cooperation combines D.TRADING’s financial strength and structured offtake capabilities with Capalo AI’s market access and advanced automated multi-market optimization platform, enabling asset owners to secure bankable revenue while maximizing trading performance.
Through the partnership, D.TRADING will act as the contractual counterparty and offtaker, providing fixed revenue structures and credit support, while Capalo AI will provide market access and optimize and trade assets across day-ahead, intraday, and ancillary service markets through its AI-powered Zeus Virtual Power Plant, Capalo Zeus VPP™. Together, the companies will deliver an integrated mid- and long-term commercial and trading solution across day-ahead, intraday and ancillary service markets.
The partnership also addresses one of the key challenges facing battery project developers and lenders: securing financeable revenue streams at scale without sacrificing market upside. By separating the financial obligations from the trading function, the structure provides long-term contractual certainty while allowing trading strategies to evolve with market conditions.
Unlike traditional models that require developers to choose between revenue certainty and trading optimization, the joint offering combines both within a single commercial framework; asset owners will enter a single contractual relationship with D.TRADING but will benefit from both D.TRADING and Capalo AI’s capabilities.
The solution is designed for standalone BESS and hybrid renewable projects and supports multiple commercial structures, including merchant, floor-and-upside-share, and tolling agreements.
“Battery storage is becoming fundamental to the way Europe balances its power system and integrates more renewable energy. The next challenge is to create the commercial conditions that allow storage projects to be financed and deployed at scale,” said Dmytro Sakharuk, CEO of D.TRADING.
“Our partnership with Capalo AI brings together two complementary strengths: D.TRADING’s ability to structure long-term, bankable revenue solutions and Capalo AI’s technology-driven approach to capturing value across power markets. Together, we can give developers and investors greater revenue certainty without limiting the market potential of their assets. This is an important step in building the commercial infrastructure needed for the next wave of battery storage investment across Europe.”
“This partnership addresses a real problem in the BESS market,” added Henri Taskinen, CEO and Co-founder of Capalo AI.
“Battery storage projects too often have to choose between leading multi-market optimization capabilities and the revenue certainty lenders require. By combining D.TRADING’s financial strength and offtake structures with Zeus VPP’s optimization across day-ahead, intraday, and ancillary markets, we remove that trade-off and offer something unique to lenders and asset owners. Asset owners get a bankable foundation and full exposure to the value our algorithms capture. This is what the next phase of BESS deployment across Europe looks like.”
The partnership initially targets battery storage projects across the Balkans with the potential to expand to wider Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe markets, where D.TRADING and Capalo AI both have an established presence. The companies also intend to jointly engage with developers, investors, lenders and asset owners through conferences, customer meetings and industry events to promote the new offering.
About D.TRADING
D.TRADING is a leading European energy trading company operating across 26 countries and 22 energy exchanges. As part of DTEK Group, the company combines extensive power market expertise, financial strength and structured trading capabilities to provide route-to-market, offtake and flexibility solutions for energy producers, RES & BESS developers and investors. D.TRADING is actively developing its power portfolio across Ukraine and Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.
About Capalo AI:
Capalo AI is a sustainable technology company specializing in AI-driven optimization and trading of standalone and co-located battery energy storage systems. Its turnkey service, Capalo Zeus VPP™, provides route-to-market access, AI-optimized multi-market trading and optimization, Balance Responsible Party (BRP) and Balance Service Provider (BSP) services, managing everything from prequalification to lifetime value maximization. Capalo AI operates and optimizes flexible assets across six European markets, Bulgaria, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Sweden and is expanding its operations across another five European markets in 2026, Estonia, Greece, Portugal and Spain. The company manages 1.6 GW of batteries and 460 MWp of solar, of which 600 MW and 300 MWp are already live under trading and optimization.
