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1. FUTURE OF GRID SERVICE MARKETS
-> Decentralized Flexibility
-> Regulations: Electricity Market Design, Cybersecurity Network Code, Network Code for Demand Response, Fit for 55, Net Zero Industry Act
-> Country reports, market rules & regional developments
-> Business models & commercial analysis
-> TSO, DSO, P2P markets: Aggregation, demand response, flexibility & capacity markets, balancing services, redispatching, black start, Grid service trading,
-> Grid service trading
-> TSO/DSO collaboration
-> Optimized system architecture & market rules for future scenarios -
2. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
-> European common energy market
-> International developments: GLEB, harmonization, …
-> Capacity allocation & market coupling: Forward CBC, physical long-term CBC, NTC, Flow based Market Coupling FBMC, Single Day-Ahead Coupling SDAC, Single Intraday Coupling SIDC, Capacity Calculation Regions CCRs, ...
-> Coordinated redispatching & countertrading
-> Bidding zone review & new interconnectors: TYNDP, MAF
-> Hybrid solutions: Offshore bidding zones, home market solutions
-> Adequacy, seasonal outlook, risk & opportunity assessment: Metrology, hydrology, fossil fuel phase-out, revision of effort sharing regulation, energy taxation directive ETD, energy efficiency directive, alternative fuels infrastructure directive, renewable energy directive , … -
3. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES PROVIDING FLEXIBILITY
-> Power electronics: FACTS, …
-> SmartX: Grids, buildings, cities, …
-> Storage technologies
-> Load management
-> Sector coupling / multi-energy: CHP, district heating,
P2X: Power to gas, power to heat, …, X2P, smart waste management, …
-> Grid-to-vehicle & vehicle-to-grid
-> Renewables delivering grid services -
4. GRID SERVICE OPERATION
-> Qualification, testing, operation & field reports
-> Managing centralized & decentralized flexibilities
-> Data security & data transparency: HEMS
-> Advanced diagnostics & modeling
-> Optimization & control
-> Joint defense & energy collaboration -
5. ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
-> Virtual power plants VPP
-> Unmanned aerial vehicles & satellite technology
-> Digital technologies and telecommunications:
IoT, 5G, LoRa, International Data Spaces, …
-> Distributed ledger technology: Blockchain, …
-> Tools, simulation & AI - 6. CASE STUDIES, DEMONSTRATIONS & others