Flexibility Provision of an Industrial Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage System Installation Through an Edge-Cloud Based Energy Management System

The growing need for flexibility in Europe is driving the development of local flexibility markets (LFM). To address the uncertainties of distributed energy resources (DERs) participation in these markets, this work analyses the flexibility provision of an industrial self-consumption installation composed of photovoltaic and energy storage system resources. On the one hand, the necessary Edge-Cloud based energy management system (EMS) is presented to ensure flexibility dispatch. On the other hand, the DER flexibility provision cost impact is evaluated through a sensitivity analysis using an analytical tool and varying periodicity, flexibility request amount, activation window, and start time. The study concludes that a higher flexibility activation window implies more losses. Additionally, the flexibility requests closer to the end of the day affect the EMS baseline operation more significantly. These results are crucial for determining DER opportunity costs and setting LFM price signals, which are essential for increasing market liquidity and DER participation.