Simplified Market Access for Flexibility: Reports from the Austrian Projects: Stromausgleich Österreich and Industry4 Redispatch

The energy system requires flexibility, especially with the decline of conventional power plants and the increasing utilization of volatile energy sources, such as PV panels. Thus, flexibility potentials of small-scale decentralized resources at low-voltage levels must be identified and operated accordingly, to mitigate the fluctuation of energy supply. In this context, Markus Riegler and Felix Hembach from APG presented the project results of: Stromausgleich Österreich – a market access facilitation platform to ease the accessibility of different services to the TSOs and DSOs such as balancing services and redispatch. In the Austrian national flagship project Industry4Redispatch, APG and AIT tested, how industrial customers flexibilities could be used for redispatch purposes. Load and generation schedules were shifted to change load flows, positively contributing to the grid congestion management. Regina Hemm reported on how the project addresses the existing gap of coordinating renewable energy plants and industries flexibility potentials to coordinate industry production times and the needs of system operators.