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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...