WHAT DOES BEFLEXIBLE DO

BeFlexible project aims to increase the flexibility of the energy system, improve cooperation between Distribution System Operators (DSOs) and Transmission System Operators (TSOs) and facilitate the participation of all energy-related stakeholders. This will be done through the validation and large-scale demonstration of adapted and proven cross-sectoral services, interoperable data exchange platforms for smart grids operation and the creation of the required system architecture framework that will enable the creation of new business models providing additional value to meet consumers’ needs in compliance with a stable regulatory framework.

21
PARTNERS

12 pilots in
4 countries

10,5M€
Budget

4 years

OUR OBJECTIVES

Design new cross-sectorial business models to increase flexibility through the analysis and validation of alternative designs.

Carry out cost-benefit analysis of flexibility options to ensure profitable business models and Scalability and Replicability Analysis.

Define, assess and understand regulatory alternatives. based on existing frameworks and the Clean Energy Package and Fit for 55 Package requirements.

Foster local flexibility platforms in the market domain and integrate DSO-TSO coordination platforms.

Contribute and develop recommendations and solutions from different projects and initiatives.

Generate a set of consumer-centric and grid-centric services to be designed, deployed and optimised in the different DEMO sites.

Increase consumer engagement and acceptance of the proposed technologies through the integration of energy services as well as other services.

Apply a set of ambitious exploitation, dissemination, communication and capacity-building activities, focused on maximising the impact of the project, as well as empowering the consumers towards prosumer scenarios.

WHAT IS EXPECTED TO ACHIEVE

The BeFlexible project will result in the following main expected impacts:

Design a whole value chain framework within the energy and cross-sector for flexibility-centric services and business models as a basis to create sustainable revenue streams for consumers.

Test and validate an open pool of adaptive, interoperable, intuitive, multidevice and secure 32 data-driven services, creating the Be Flexible open services ecosystem.

The optimal design of the Acquisition flexibility mechanisms and the Assessment of market designs will contribute to the creation of accessible, cost-efficient and competitive markets.

Increase the number of users to drive transaction costs down.

Contribute to a higher resistance of the energy system.

Deliver Enabled efficient functioning, standardized and interoperable energy services/platforms through digital technologies.

The strategy for the exploitation will allow to define the pathway for the mid-term new profitable business models, which will enable a smooth market introduction and proper orientation of the future services.

Allow in a later stage the exploitation of protected knowledge in strategic target markets.

Ensure the most efficient pathway to maximise awareness on BeFlexible digital solutions.

Define a co-creative strategy to increase social acceptance.

Act as facilitators for the interaction of active and intermediary actors of the energy and non-energy value chain. Act as a common data space exchange to enable different flows of information supporting flexibility-centric business models.

CONCEPTUAL BLOCKS

The project addresses the natural step that the energy transition requires to achieve the current challenges, to drive this new paradigm in grid operation supported by 4 conceptual blocks: (A) Markets and Regulation, to ensure an appropriate regulative framework and guarantee the replicability of the solutions within all EU scenarios. This will be achieved through the adaption and fine-tuning of a complete (B) Services ecosystem and its integration thanks to the developments in the field of (C) Platforms & Architecture, ensuring the security, and versatility and establishing the required system inter-connectivity of all the market operators, and finally, (D) Customer engagement and social co-creation block will focus on ensuring societal influence and broad citizens’ acceptance.

Markets and Regulation

Be Flexible will analyze markets and regulations and define a framework of flexibility for new business opportunities.

This conceptual block will focus on two Key Areas: Flexibility acquisition mechanisms design within relevant countries and their optimal combinations and design and implement the framework required, based on Regulatory proposals complying with the requirements from Clean Energy and Fit for 55 Packages.

Services Ecosystem

In order to contribute to the creation of additional revenue streams for prosumers and ease consumer engagement, as well as to foster investments in energy management systems and flexible resources, the Be Flexible project will define a Minimum Viable Products (MVP) for novel energy and cross-sector data-driven digital services, based-on or profiting from local energy and flexibility markets. This open pool of data-driven energy services will be gathered into a Be Flexible open services ecosystem, meeting users’ needs and energy stakeholder objectives.

This conceptual block will focus on two Key Areas: Consumer-centric services that consist of the adaption and fine-tuning of a pool of Consumer-Centric Services and Grid-Operators-Centric Services

Platforms & Architecture

Be Flexible will define overarching design principles for the application of digital tools for coordination and data exchanges between grid operators and flexibility assets. These principles will also serve the operation of tools developed within single demos in order to guarantee consistent project approaches.

Will focus on two Key Areas: the development of a Grid data and business network, as a key enabler of the link between prosumer ecosystems, DSOs and local flexibility platforms, and to design and implement the required ADMS/DERMS architecture, to interconnect all the energy actors’ platforms and enable the standardisable and open interoperable interfaces connection to Be Flexible services ecosystem among electricity and other energy and non-energy sectors.

Customer engagement and social co-creation

Customer participation in the acquisition mechanisms can present different challenges that need to be identified and tackled. Furthermore, it is relevant to clarify the roles and interactions among actors when there is a flexibility provision, including the definition of balancing responsibilities and imbalance settlement compensation.

Be Flexible will deal with social aspects focused on the value proposition for market actors, design and implement the customer engagement strategies and finally will define the appropriate legal and ethical framework.