Benefits

TSO Transmission System Operator

The crowd balancing platform makes it possible for TSOs to receive flex offers, activate and deactivate these offers, handle measurement data and validate delivery. You can also use the information to settle with balance service providers (financially) – individual network users and aggregators who have signed a balancing service agreement with TSOs – and Balance Responsible Parties (imbalance).

Help create a more stable energy system to support the energy transition
Validate the delivery of flexibility through both aggregated, pool-level measurements, and independent device-level measurements
Decarbonise the balancing market
Help to delay or avoid infrastructure investments and release pressure on investment timelines
Increase market liquidity by expanding the flexibility pool

DSO Distribution System Operator

DSOs will be able to manage grid constraints at the local level via the crowd balancing platform. It will allow you to give and take information, and solve grid constraints through flexibility transactions. You may also use flexibility in your own grid operations.

Benefits

Apply grid constraints to flexibility transactions
Improve collaboration with TSOs on grid operations
Gain insight into ancillary services actions that may impact the distribution grid
Play an active role in the design and operations of a distributed market for flexibility
Provide an opportunity to tap into an existing ecosystem for distributed flexibility
Validate the delivery of flexibility through aggregated, pool-level measurements and independent device-level measurements
Delay or avoid infrastructure investments and release pressure on investment timelines

OEM IoT manager

By managing the communication and firmware of distributed energy resources used to deliver flexibility services, the IoT cloud manager captures current assets and metering data directly from distributed energy resources (DERs). This allows them to act as validation service providers and produce this information to independently validate the delivery of flexibility services.
(Benefits remain the same as with the OEM).

Benefits

Increased sales of devices by lowering barriers for adoption and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO)
Unlocking new sources of value, enhancing the value proposition for consumers
Creates a European standard for the integration of devices to the flexibility markets
Opportunity to rapidly scale a proposition across participating markets
Active contribution to the energy transition

Aggregator Flexibility Service provider

Flexibility service providers or aggregators play a key role in the flexibility market,
facilitating the sale of excess electricity and optimising the pool of flexible energy resources, the platform provides an opportunity for new services and revenue sources.

Benefits

Enables inclusion of smaller flexibility devices in electricity balancing markets
Creates a European standard for integrating devices into the flexibility markets
Provides an opportunity to rapidly scale the proposition across participating markets
Offers an opportunity to become a stronger player in the evolving energy market
Helps avoid additional hardware installations by using existing measurements (behind-the-meter) to provide evidence for the delivery of flexibility
Internet-based data communication via REST APIs