Eu-SysFlex
The EU SysFlex project aims to create a long-term roadmap for the large-scale integration of renewable energy on electricity grids as well as providing practical assistance to power system operators on a pan-European scale. In a decentralizing energy system where the proportion of renewable energy penetration increases, enabling greater system flexibility of the EU energy market is crucial.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nº 773505
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The overall objective is to ensure an efficient and sufficient level of system services to facilitate meeting world-leading levels of renewables in electricity, while maintaining the level of resilience that consumers and society have come to expect from the European electricity system.
This requires defining the right amount of flexibility and system services to support transmission system operators using a threefold approach. Firstly, the technical needs of the pan-European system . Secondly, the electricity market design and regulation needs to be augmented to efficiently and effectively procure the appropriate combination of these system services. Thirdly, implicit and explicit barriers to competitive forces being applied need to be removed. For this we need an in-depth understanding of all stakeholders’ roles at all system levels (interconnected system, national transmission and distribution sub-systems and consumers).