An intelligent electronic control and communications interface module for a thermal or electrical energy storage module grid, and methods for stored thermal or electrical energy and thermal or electrical energy storage capacity trading.

The present invention relates to an intelligent electronic control and communications interface module (2) for a thermal or electrical energy storage module (1) comprising means for bi-directionally communicating data between a thermal or electrical energy storage module (1) and a smart grid, wherein said data comprise data concerning the current status of the storage capacity, and requests to store thermal or electrical energy or to discharge thermal or electrical energy. The present invention relates also to a thermal or electrical energy storage module comprising such intelligent electronic control and communications interface module. Additionallly, the present invention relates to a thermal or electrical or combined electrical and thermal energy storage module grid. Further, the present invention relates to a method of doing business comprising treating stored thermal and/or electrical energy, thermal and/or electrical energy storage capacity, and/or control priority thereof as a quantifiable tradable asset.