‘USEF: The Framework Explained’ has been updated one more time to reflect the last market situations. It is our core publication that describes all the relevant components required to understand and implement a market for flexibility. A warm word of thanks to the authors and the external review board members. You can download the framework…
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Nearly 40 experts gathered for our goodbye event, with many familiar faces and Dr. Manuel Sánchez-Jiménez (Team Leader for Smart Grids – Retired European Commission – DG Energy) as a special guest of honour. We took the trip down memory lane but also spend some time together with the question still on our plates today:…
This week, we are publishing a white paper that maps the range of current flexibility products, markets and regulations deployed across Europe. These are mapped according to the USEF Flexibility Value Chain, USEF Aggregation Implementation Models and USEF Market Roles. The whitepaper aims to guide and inspire the adoption of demand response initiatives via aggregation,…
The main goals of the second USEF User Community Meeting was to exchange knowledge across different USEF users to learn from each other, to involve active users in the improvements of the USEF Framework and explain the latest changes of this Framework. Four DSOs, eight aggregators from three different nations were actively present in this…
The case study: ‘Paper on practical deployment of electric vehicle flexibility’ was recently published. Smart charging, a term more frequently heard, this paper explains how smart charging is used in practice to valorize electric vehicle flexibility. It is a joint publication of USEF and Jedlix, which discusses and categorizes the practical deployments of Jedlix using…
This January we have launched the first version of the USEF Flexibility Trading Protocol (UFTP) specification. UFTP is a new and simplified version of USEF specifications especially focusing on the DSO-Aggregator interface, which can be used for flexibility trading between aggregator and DSO for congestion management and/or grid capacity management. Besides the simplification and clean-up…
For both Dutch and international members, we are organising another User Community meeting early 2020. We will be presenting UFTP to a wider audience and discuss its implications and possible next steps together. With ample room for knowledge exchange, we are looking forward to an inspiring session. Should you wish to join and become part…
Since July of this year, USEF has entered a new phase, facilitating market standardisation under the leadership of DSOs Alliander and Stedin. Our founding partners ABB, DNV GL, IBM and ICT Group remain involved with focus on the implementation of USEF in flexibility projects. This September the first Founding Partner Meeting took place: the kick-off…
UFTP is our new favourite four letter abbreviation. The USEF Flex Trading Protocol is a new and simplified version of USEF specifications for the DSO-Aggregator interface. In our User Community three Dutch DSOs (Stedin, Enexis, Liander) and four aggregators (Scholt, Enervalis, TNO and Jedlix) are working together: exchanging knowledge and implementation experience to lower the…