EU Smart Grid TF - 2nd interim report now published on Demand Side Flexibility
03 August 2018
The scope of the work is on the deployment of explicit demand response in Europe. This refers to enabling final customers to become active in the market but also to system operators to make best use of flexibility in order to ensure efficient system operation on a regional level.
As such, aspects of the work should include but is not limited to:
1. Access and use flexibility (for all market parties)
- Opening of all markets for DR to compete with generation, including TSO and DSO acquisition of flexibility
- System Operators facilitation of Demand Response (including e.g. data access)
- TSO and DSO coordination on activation and use of flexibility
2. Framework arrangements between final customers, aggregators, and suppliers (or their BRPs) and possibly other actors in the following areas:
- Information exchange and confidentiality
- Physical usage effects (balancing responsibility, energy flows)
- Economic effects and financial flows
- Measurement and validation (incl. baselining)
- Consumer rights and contractual arrangements (incl. aggregators and residential customers)
The objective of the working group is to continue the work on the deployment of demand response at European level by:
- Identifying success stories and best regulatory practices across Europe.
- Identifying and analysing other issues linked to the wider concept of demand side flexibility.
- Identifying the remaining gaps that have to be addressed at EU level and propose if there should be further and more specific EU action (e.g. a network code) and the areas that such EU actions will have to cover.
Relevant outputs of the group, such as use cases, will be disseminated to the European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs), so that standardisation gaps can be identified and addressed.
The group will build on previous work of the Smart Grids Task Force, as well as on existing studies and market models for demand response in EU and worldwide (including USEF, the Penta-lateral Forum, TSO-DSO cooperation a.o.). The existing and envisaged EU legislation - including network codes - shall be the main framework of the work (reference list)
