The UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets and National Regulatory body Ofgem has approved funding for SP Energy Networks five-year innovation project, called FUSION, a submission under the 2017 Electricity Network Innovation Competition (NIC). FUSION plans to implement and trial a USEF-based local flexibility market, as an economic alternative to manage DSO network constraints….
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USEF’s Aggregator Workstream has been running for over a year now and its in-depth analysis has resulted in a final set of defined models for the effective implementation of Aggregators, in both the Commerce & Industrial and the Residential domains. Addressing the Residential segment separately was considered crucial as it differs distinctly from C&I in…
This new work group, consisting of EDSO, Geode and DSOs from several European countries, agreed a 2017 work program during a preliminary session in November 2016. The session also provoked an interesting discourse related to the first two subjects – congestion and value creation. A decision was made to pay special attention to TSO-DSO interaction…
The publication of our Aggregator workstream results in November, based on our analysis of aggregator implementation models for Demand Response for Commercial and Industrial Prosumers, has received positive feedback. We are now taking a similar approach to Residential Prosumers. Aspects of this customer segment differ from C&I Prosumers as defined below: Amount of flexibility per…
USEF’s new approach sees the Foundation acting as an advisor, rather than a participant, in implementation projects. The organisation now consists of a small core team, focused on safeguarding the integrity of the core framework and coordinating new content development. Future framework development is foreseen as a collaborative effort of smart energy professionals across Europe, operating…
Aggregator Workstream, consisting of an international team of experts from organisations throughout the energy value chain, have today presented the outcome of their work in an extra-long session at the EUW Summit. What are the challenges involved in implementing demand-response? Focusing on the Commercial and Industrial segment, the Workstream describes an effective approach for designing…
After delving into the complexity of aggregator implementation models, we are looking into starting up a similar workstream for the role of the DSO, focusing specifically at the potential value and use of flexibility. What could product design for DSO capacity/ congestion management look like? Or voltage control? How exactly does an orange regime work?…
Scalagation is a German-Dutch project to develop scalable aggregation services enabling standardized flexibility trading. The consortium, consisting of two mathematics and IT research institutes, an ICT specialist, a solar project developer, an energy retailer and an energy cooperation, aims to develop, test and validate multi-layer flexibility services for the smart electricity grid. The main objective…
Latest version on github. On September 30, we have released the latest version of our reference implementation. The reference implementation provides a complete working copy for all the roles and processes of the USEF framework as well as plugins for the framework’s business functions. Available in source code and easily extendable, it helps you save…
Collaborating towards a European smart energy standard. There is an inherent and increasingly urgent need for a common standard in smart energy. To help work towards this, we have revisited our approach as an organisation in order to ensure that it is best suited to supporting the achievement of this shared goal. A summary of…