Balance of Power, our documentary style ‘serious game’ about the future energy market, has been awarded the Energy Institute Award om the category Public Engagement. The Energy Institute Awards have been running for 20 years. They are designed to celebrate and showcase the vast accomplishments in the global energy sector, an industry vital to society. …
Author: Catelijne van der Meer
Especially in the European context, we are often invited to present our framework and help further align discussions on flexibility deployment in line with the EU directive. On March 12thwe were asked to present our framework and our recent paper on Flexibility Market Platforms at the BRIDGE meeting. This European Commission initiative unites Horizon 2020…
As part of our 2019 program, we are focusing on EV smart charging. We originally addressed the topic in 2015, with a resulting white paper. Since then, the EV landscape has changed drastically, with a large increase in EV adoption and accelerated deployment of charging infrastructure. As EVs offer such significant potential for flexibility, we…
The flexibility market is now beyond the conceptual phase and the USEF Foundation has achieved its primary objective – to accelerate the creation of an integrated smart energy market. As a result USEF is entering a new era, where DSOs Alliander and Stedin will continue the work of the Foundation to facilitate market standardization. USEF…
Citizens Energy Communities (CECs) are becoming increasingly popular. Many communities want to become more self-reliant by investing in community renewables generation; others want to promote energy efficiency and environmental issues generally. This paper aims to support the development and harmonization of the CEC role within the energy system and, in turn, help CECs to…
De interactieve documentaire Balance of Power doet je spelenderwijs beseffen dat een massale overstap naar duurzame energie onverwachte en alarmerende gevolgen kan hebben. Het kijken naar Balance of Power is een spannende maar ook nogal onrustbarende ervaring. Na afloop overheerst een gevoel van ‘waarom wist ik dit niet?’ Kijken is niet het juiste woord eigenlijk, hoewel het…
As smaller organisations and end-users increasingly seek opportunities to valorise their flexibility, and the demand for flexibility to solve grid problems grows, there is greater focus on flexibility platforms. These offer the opportunity to integrate markets and products to better facilitate and coordinate the trade, dispatch and/or settlement of demand side flexibility. This paper introduces and…
To increase the value of demand-side flexibility, Aggregators must be able to use the same portfolio to provide multiple services to one or multiple parties requesting flexibility i.e. value stacking. This paper introduces the design principles used to define the market model, stakeholders’ responsibilities and key interactions for the trading of flexibility and stacking…
While it is widely acknowledged that there is an increasingly urgent need to introduce demand side flexibility in the energy system, questions remain about how to do it, where to do it, who should do it, and how participation should be remunerated. In this updated paper, we detail USEF’s position on the flexibility value chain….
Balance of Power On October 2nd, 2018, USEF Foundation launched ‘Balance of Power’, a serious game to promote better understanding of future energy market challenges and potential solutions. The interactive documentary-based game is aimed at people with a non-technical role in the energy transition such as politicians, local authorities and entrepreneurs. The storyline evolves as players…