Aggregation of demand side flexibility in a smart grid: A review for European market design

Cherrelle Eid (1) , Paul Codani (2) , Yurong Chen (3) , Yannick Perez (4, 3) , Rudi Hakvoort (1)

1 TU Delft - Delft University of Technology
2 GeePs - Laboratoire Génie électrique et électronique de Paris
3 LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606
4 RITM - Réseaux Innovation Territoires et Mondialisation

The increased share of renewable generation and the integration of Distributed Generation (DG) require more electricity system flexibility. One way to increase this flexibility is to use the potentials of demand response (DR). In order to activate the full range of customers in DR, a new market intermediary actor is needed to aggregate the resources in an adequate technical and economical format. These actors, so called " aggregators " , can act as flexibility providers to support security of supply considering network, generation and consumers constraints. However, despite their technical and economical utility, aggregators are not self-emerging in many European countries. Consequently, this paper aims at identifying the main barriers accounting for this lack of aggregators in Europe. Eventually this paper provides a policy review for European market designs that support aggregation.

Keywords: Aggregator; demand response; demand management; regulation

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Environmental Sciences

Cherrelle Eid, Paul Codani, Yurong Chen, Yannick Perez, Rudi Hakvoort. Aggregation of demand side flexibility in a smart grid: A review for European market design. European Energy Markets 12th international conference, May 2015, Lisbonne, Portugal. ⟨10.1109/EEM.2015.7216712⟩. ⟨hal-01266912⟩