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R&D NESTER AS SPEAKER IN WEBINAR ON NETWORK ANCILLARY SERVICES AND THE FUTURE ROLE OF ENERGY COMMUNITIES

On 22 September R&D Nester presented an overview on ancillary services at the webinar about "Network Ancillary Services and the future role of Energy Communities", organized by FleXunity project.

FleXunity is a European Union H2020 funded project under the program Fast Track to Innovation. R&D Nester presentation is entitled "Ancillary Services overview" and it was produced in the scope of R&D Nester participation in this Project. The presentation will characterize the ancillary services at the electric transmission grid and share the project's conclusions on what ancillary services are best suited to improve the integration of energy communities in the European electricity market.

The objective of FleXunity project is to deploy novel services for retailers and aggregators, enhanced by Virtual Power Plant (VPP) technology empowered with AI algorithms focused on minimizing the cost of energy (bought in the wholesale market) and optimizing the use of distributed renewables from the utility or community portfolio.

The proposed energy community approach will promote active participation of end-users (community members) valuating their flexibility and energy sharing actions, which will be supported by secure transaction mechanisms with technologies such as blockchain to validate energy transactions. A tariff structure optimisation will be design for the Energy Community to be able to meet the needs of the system operator by aggregating the flexibility to participate in balancing and ancillary services markets as a Balancing Service Provider (BSPs).

The proposed services will be demonstrated in two pilots with very different market conditions: in the U.K. (mature market open to the use of demand-side flexibility) and Iberian energy market (in transformation - opening to use of flexibility from the demand side).

 

Link for event

FleXunity Project (R&D Nester)

FleXunity project website

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