Unlocking the Potential of DERS to Enhance Grid Flexibility

EW Flex enables grid operators—including vertically integrated utilities, distribution system operators (DSOs), and transmission system operators (TSOs)—to scale processes for asset registration, pre-qualification, dispatch, and settlement to millions of distributed energy resources (DERs) via customer-facing applications and services. 

This helps grid operators tap into the vast and growing pool of customer-owned and -sited assets, while enabling customers to improve the economics of DER ownership via increased participation in a variety wholesale energy markets and/or demand-side management programs.

In Austria, TSO Austrian Power Grid's Flexhub application is underpinning a proof-of-concept solution for integrating customer-owned battery storage systems into the wholesale frequency regulation market, including registration, pre-qualification, activation, and settlement. In an Asia-Pacific market, EW Flex is being leveraged to improve the quality and quantity of DER data in a national registry while streamlining the process of sharing data among authorized stakeholders. In the U.S., EW Flex is being used to establish a distribution-level market that offers new ways for customers to monetize their DERs in addition to existing wholesale markets.