Flexibility Exploration and Aggregation from the Consumer Side

The increasing penetration of distributed energy sources poses a great challenge to distribution and transmission network operation due to their stochasticity and variability. In this situation, local energy system (LESs) opens up new possibilities to utilize local, renewable energy sources in a decentralized way. It is of great importance for LESs to excavate local flexibility. Sector coupling (e.g. heating, mobility) as well as distributed energy storages, have the potential to provide flexibility. To facilitate a flexible operation of digitalized LESs, we should be able to model, aggregate, forecast, and operate key LESs resources. The unresolved challenge remaining is how to integrate the thousands of controllable elements in LESs into traditional control or optimization frameworks. This panel session will invite researchers around the world to discuss the flexibility exploration and aggregation approaches from the consumer side.