D2.1 – End-users and Business Requirements
This report highlights the initial business scenarios envisaged for FLEXCoop together with our residential users requirement and cooperatives requirements, both based on surveys. This report reveals that the acceptance level to grant home devices’ management to cooperatives is 83% in Spain and 60% in the Netherlands. Many would not be willing if the managing company was a different one.
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D2.2 – Regulatory, Market, Socio-economic and Ethical Context Analysis in the Pilot Sites and anticipated (short- and mid-term) evolutions
This reports looks into Demand Response regulation at EU, Spain and Netherlands levels and hilghlights the social barriers to explicit Demand Response. This report reveals that regulatory conditions are far from optimal: Pooling loads is only possible for retailers in NL, whereas this simply not possible in Spain. The Clean energy Package should make the situation easier in both countries.
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D2.3 – Analysis of EU-wide Interoperability Standards and Data Models and Harmonization Requirements
This deliverable examines the landscape of relevant Demand Response standards, the most relevant ones are described and referenced. These standards include: general standards among them USEF and open ADR; upstream standards addressing grid operations; downstream standards towards customers facilities controls and Machine-to-machine ontologies
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D2.4 – Emerging Business Models, Associated DR Strategies and Standard Contract Templates - Preliminary Version
This report describes the Smart Grid environment in which FLEXCoop is designed to be implemented and defines, through the use of business canvas, 5 business models which can be made accessible to energy cooperatives: Energy efficiency, comfort and self-generation monitoring (1); Self-consumption optimisation of co-operatives resources (2); Participation into balancing and ancillary services (3); Microgrid-as-a-Service: (4); and Neutral platform for aggregator-prosumer matching (5).
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D2.5 – FLEXCoop PMV Methodology Specifications - Preliminary Version
The objective of this document is to define the Performance Measurement and Verification Methodology (PMV) to be adopted by the FLEXCoop project for verifying consumer response rate to dispatched Demand Response signals.
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D2.6 – FLEXCoop Framework Architecture Including Functional, Technical and Communication Specifications
This deliverable describes in detail the design of the functional components of the FLEXCoop architecture. The interfaces of each component inside the framework as well as to external communication end points are the main focus of this document. This report provides special emphasis on FLEXCoop core components: the middleware which acts as a central communication hub; the Open Smart Box; The Prosumer Visualisation Toolkit; the Open Marketplace and the DER Registry.
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D2.7 – Emerging Business Models, Associated DR Strategies and Standard Contracts Templates – Final Version
Demand-side flexibility (DSF) holds value in different parts of the grid and can support different services. This deliverable presents a list of 5 business models related to DSF. Some are directly linked to DSF: self-consumption; participation into ancillary services and retailer portfolio balancing; others are support services: local flexibility market and flexibility services marketplace. Our two cooperative pilots are being presented as use cases of these enhanced business models.

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D2.8 – FLEXCoop PMV Methodology Specifications – Final Version

This short report presents the implementation of our Performance Measurement and Validation (PMV) methodology, through different steps: ex ante analysis; implementation and ex post analysis.

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D2.9 – FLEXCoop Framework Architecture including functional, technical and communication Specifications – Final Version

This deliverable is a follow-up of D2.6. It describes in detail the design of the functional components of the FLEXCoop architecture. The interfaces of each component inside the framework as well as to external communication end points are the main focus of this document.

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FLEXCoop Newsletter #1

November 2018