ISGT Europe 2022 panel session 10: The role of flexibility in enabling the energy transition (Slides)

This panel will discuss recent innovations in the design, provision and activation of energy flexibility, and how it can be used to accelerate the ongoing energy transition. This is especially important in the context of increasing demand electrification (e.g. heat, transport) and the proliferation of variable renewable energy sources. More specifically, the panel will draw inspiration from activities carried out in the context of the IEA Annex 82 on Energy Flexible Buildings, as well as several large scale national and European projects. In doing so, the panel members will bring different perspectives on modelling and activating flexibility at different aggregation levels ranging from the electric distribution and transmission grid down to the building and appliance level. The discussion will also cover practical topics such as trade-offs in the choice of algorithms, flexible assets (electric batteries and vehicles to thermal loads), objective functions (risk stacking, value hopping) and constraints (local vs. grid-based), as well as the challenges that arise in real world projects.