The preliminary assessment methodology has been designed

During the last months, the partnership was focused on designing a methodology for a preliminary assessment of the available flexibility in the different pilots. The methodology is based on the outcome of previous activities - such as the characterisation of the pilots, the definition of the Use Cases, and the identification of the end user requirements -, and is composed by three main steps.

In the first one, the energy resources are identified and characterized, by defining their technical, operational and monitoring and controllability characteristics.

Then, a second step performs a qualitative evaluation of the individual flexibility that can be provided by each energy resource, assessing aspects such as the direction of the flexibility, its volume, duration, activation time or deactivation time.

Last, the third step finalises the qualitative evaluation of the flexibility available to provide the Use Cases taking into account, the aggregated flexibility from all involved energy resources, by identifying the requirements of those Use Cases in terms of flexibility and assessing the suitability of the resources to fulfil them.

The pilots will use this methodology to provide a preliminary assessment of the flexibility potential of the resources at the pilot sites to be used in the implementation of the Use Cases benefitting from the integration of the different energy sectors, in order to allow for the definition of the functional modules and associated requirements of both the EMS and the SPT tools.