Origin Loop and Kinergy—a virtual power plant story

The challenge

Navigating a new energy landscape

Global energy systems are transforming fast as technology enters the energy landscape. Renewables like solar and wind offer cheaper, cleaner power, and solar panels, batteries, EVs, and smart home technologies are becoming central to many households—giving us a decentralized, dynamic grid alongside the traditional infrastructure.

Power generation from renewables can be intermittent and unpredictable—creating challenges for grid stability, energy pricing, and consumer returns. In a more connected world, consumers expect more too—data from technology, lower costs, easy automation, and new products and ideas.

Essential services like energy are highly regulated, and there is strong competition among energy suppliers to attract and keep customers.

A complex energy landscape calls for a solution that is more than software alone, and this is where Kinergy comes in.

The solution

Kinergy’s intelligent technology powers Origin Loop

By harnessing the intelligence, automation, and flexibility of Kinergy, Origin Loop, owned by Origin Energy, allows every Australian home connected to Origin Loop to actively participate in the nation’s energy system—rewarding users, supporting the grid, and making renewable energy work smarter for everyone.

Kinergy is the digital backbone of Origin Loop, one of Australia’s largest VPPs. It connects, coordinates and optimizes a networked ecosystem of decentralized energy devices—like solar panels, batteries and EVs—to communicate with each other and the grid.

Through Kinergy, decentralized resources form an intelligent and flexible VPP that communicates with grid utilities and the energy market— to balance supply and demand in real time and create value through optimization.

For Origin Loop, Kinergy:

• aggregates and analyzes significant datasets from weather forecasts, real-time grid conditions, historical consumption, and market price signals to anticipate supply and demand. This empowers Origin Loop to make decisions about when to store, discharge, or consume energy.
• monitors hundreds of thousands of connected devices—like solar panels, batteries, EVs, and hot water systems—in real time
• optimizes energy flows to generate economic and environmental benefits.
• provides data that drives innovative new products, for example EV charging, Battery Maximiser, and Spike, that reward customers for shifting use away from peak times.

For grid utilities, Kinergy contributes to more stability through data driven load shifting.

For Origin Loop customers, Kinergy:

• uses data to automatically support a customer’s chosen energy preferences. A site can prioritize goals like savings or income generation.
• automates operations, like when to heat hot water or charge an EV, and presents this through an easy-to-use app. (Plus the app lets customers manually change some settings, for example, when to charge an EV.)
• provides ‘always on’ optimization, and dynamically adjusts operations to maximize value.

The outcome

Stabilizing energy flows

Through Kinergy, Origin Loop delivers smarter energy management, lower costs for consumers, and greater grid stability—while making a serious contribution to Australia’s renewable future.

Kinergy: built by energy experts for the energy industry.