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With the growth of decentralized resources, congestion management at the distribution level has become a growing issue in Europe. Several initiatives with local flexibility markets are being implemented, with different designs and objectives. In this paper, we provide a comparative assessment of four case studies of local flexibility markets (ENERA, GOPACS, UKPN, and ENEDIS) in different center-western Europe countries: Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France. We identify a number of differences across these countries that have an impact on the drivers of implementation of these local flexibility markets and their market design such as the type and depth of congestion, the organization and governance of networks operators, the current approach for congestion management, and the need for the development of additional flexibility sources. We find that the different market design choices can be explained by the local specificities and use the four case studies to generalize our findings and define a typology of possible approaches for flexibility markets depending on the electricity system local specificities, as well as the sector governance and the policy priorities.
Theo Dronne; Fabien Roques; Marcelo Saguan. Local Flexibility Markets for Distribution Network Congestion-Management in Center-Western Europe: Which Design for Which Needs? Energies 2021, 14, 4113 .
AMA StyleTheo Dronne, Fabien Roques, Marcelo Saguan. Local Flexibility Markets for Distribution Network Congestion-Management in Center-Western Europe: Which Design for Which Needs? Energies. 2021; 14 (14):4113.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTheo Dronne; Fabien Roques; Marcelo Saguan. 2021. "Local Flexibility Markets for Distribution Network Congestion-Management in Center-Western Europe: Which Design for Which Needs?" Energies 14, no. 14: 4113.
Local flexibility markets (LFMs) are a market-based concept to integrate distributed energy resources into congestion management. However, the activation of flexibility for storage-based flexibility changes the respective state of charge. Compensation in later points of time is needed to regain the original flexibility potential. Therefore, we propose a LFM bid formulation including both flexibility and compensation. Furthermore, flexibility market participation might lead to inc-dec-gaming, i.e., congestion-increasing behavior to maximize profits. However, this inc-dec-gaming might lead to electricity market schedule deviations if LFM offers are not activated. We propose a risk-averse modeling formulation considering the potential non-activation of LFM bids to provide a framework for the assessment of LFM participation comparing different approaches. Our exemplary case studies demonstrate the proposed LFM bid formulation and show the impact of LFM participation modeling on inc-dec-gaming and congestion management costs.
Carlo Schmitt; Felix Gaumnitz; Andreas Blank; Olivier Rebenaque; Théo Dronne; Arnault Martin; Philippe Vassilopoulos; Albert Moser; Fabien Roques. Framework for Deterministic Assessment of Risk-Averse Participation in Local Flexibility Markets †. Energies 2021, 14, 3012 .
AMA StyleCarlo Schmitt, Felix Gaumnitz, Andreas Blank, Olivier Rebenaque, Théo Dronne, Arnault Martin, Philippe Vassilopoulos, Albert Moser, Fabien Roques. Framework for Deterministic Assessment of Risk-Averse Participation in Local Flexibility Markets †. Energies. 2021; 14 (11):3012.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarlo Schmitt; Felix Gaumnitz; Andreas Blank; Olivier Rebenaque; Théo Dronne; Arnault Martin; Philippe Vassilopoulos; Albert Moser; Fabien Roques. 2021. "Framework for Deterministic Assessment of Risk-Averse Participation in Local Flexibility Markets †." Energies 14, no. 11: 3012.