X-FLEX

The H2020 X-FLEX project, with a budget of € 9,5M, 12 institutions from 6 European countries and led by the company ETRA, is developing and demonstrating a set of efficient, cost-effective, integrated solutions, to facilitate the optimum combination of decentralised flexibility assets, both on the generation (DER) side and on the demand side (V2G, power-to-heat/cold/gas, batteries, demand response), enabling all parties to offer their flexibility in the market, creating benefits to all the actors in the smart grid value chain. The project began October 1 2019 and will have a duration of four years.

Key Exploitable Results

X-FLEX develops 4 complementary products that will offer services to all the energy stakeholders, from network operators (TSO, DSO, microgrid operators) to final consumers/prosumers and flexibility providers, including other intermediate players, such as retailers and aggregators:

- SERVIFLEX TOOL: The tool for flexibility managers to take advantage of the value of energy storage along with other demand flexibility resources towards the establishment of a holistic framework for flexibility extraction, profiling, forecasting, classification, clustering and management to serve different market and grid needs.

- GRIDFLEX TOOL: The tool for grid and microgrid operators that prevents congestion (voltage and current issues) and power quality problems with the increasing share of intermittent RES. The tool will use flexibility as an alternative to network reinforcement when it is more cost-efficient than traditional reinforcement of the network.

- MARKETFLEX TOOL: This tool enables final consumers and prosumers to access and participate, individually or through an intermediate party, on different energy markets, such as wholesale market, local energy market or ancillary services market for TSO or DSO.

- X-FLEX PLATFORM: The platform integrates all the required data in order to provide services for all the energy actors and ensure more secure, stable and clean energy supply.

Project partners

1 ETRA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO
2 UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI
3 PETROL SLOVENSKA ENERGETSKA
4 ELEKTRO CELJE D.D.
5 ALBENA AD
6 ELEKTROENERGIEN SISTEMEN OPERATOR EAD
7 INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS
8 DIACHEIRISTIS ELLINIKOU DIKTYOU DIANOMIS ELEKTRIKIS ENERGEIAS AE
9 SUITE5 DATA INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS LIMITED
10 BLUEPRINT ENERGY SOLUTIONS
11 SYSTEMS SUNLIGHT INDUSTRIAL
12 JOANNEUM RESEARCH

Financing

Funded by: European Commission

Overall Budget: 9 463 657.50

Project duration: 10/2019 - 3/2023

Scope: EU-H2020

Degree of Prosumer & consumer involvement: Low
Rough evaluation of their needs and expectations as flexibility providers within the project

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