Innovative flexibility management framework for distributed energy resources participating in local markets

Demand side flexibility management is currently a key facilitator of various EU directions: it enables the high penetration of renewable energy resources; it allows the formation of an aggregated considerable capacity which could be utilised for ancillary services towards a secure electricity network operation and it provides a means to smaller scale flexible resources to participate in energy markets and thus gain financial benefits. This paper presents a flexibility management framework that has been created within H2020 X-FLEX project (GA. 863927), with the aim to assist the optimal coordination of local flexible resources and in parallel, facilitate their participation to local energy markets. Flexibility shall stem from multi-source systems, energy storage, electric vehicles, renewables and flexible demand. In this work particularly, the flexibility management framework is deployed on a multi-source microgrid, which has power to gas components and battery, located in a mid-scale demo site in Xanthi, Greece.