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SMART GRIDS
Demand Response development in Europe (2014)
S FI
NO
SE
DK PL EE
IE GB LV
LT
BY
NL
BE CZ SK UA
AT HU
DE MD
SI HR
Key:! FR CH RO
Commercially active! BB RS
Partial opening! IT ME BG
Preliminary AL MK
development!
Closed! PT ES GR
No thorough regulatory
review– (but on first
review, DR development
not visible)!
SEDC (2014). Mapping Demand Response in Europe Today.
countries’ openness to European running smoothly and profitably. customers to put fast, automated
Commission directives to include power controls to use in
demand-side resources in That’s why REstore plugs its managing exposure to risk
broader energy efficiency and 100-percent track record on on spot energy markets, or
carbon reduction goals. delivering services to date -- and predicting and mitigating peaks
why it’s going to spend some of in energy consumption that
One of the big questions for its new funding on expanding trigger high demand charges, he
European grid operators is how the capabilities of its Flexpond said.
reliable, flexible and scalable software platform, Rombouts said.
demand-side resources can be In particular, it will be boosting its “As an aggregator, we believe we
in meeting grid needs. After all, data analytics capabilities to put are uniquely positioned, as we log
electricity isn’t just a commodity the immense amounts of data it’s massive amounts of this behind-
to be traded for grid needs pulling from its customer sites to the-meter data,” he said. “We are
for factories, warehouses, data new uses. really looking for patterns in the
centers, office buildings and other way that power is consumed. We
end customers -- it’s the lifeblood That could open up new want to learn what power is truly
of keeping their businesses possibilities for REstore’s flexible.” l
This article was first written by Jeff St. John, published on Greentech Media on 8 May and is republished with permission here.
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
SMART GRIDS
Demand Response development in Europe (2014)
S FI
NO
SE
DK PL EE
IE GB LV
LT
BY
NL
BE CZ SK UA
AT HU
DE MD
SI HR
Key:! FR CH RO
Commercially active! BB RS
Partial opening! IT ME BG
Preliminary AL MK
development!
Closed! PT ES GR
No thorough regulatory
review– (but on first
review, DR development
not visible)!
SEDC (2014). Mapping Demand Response in Europe Today.
countries’ openness to European running smoothly and profitably. customers to put fast, automated
Commission directives to include power controls to use in
demand-side resources in That’s why REstore plugs its managing exposure to risk
broader energy efficiency and 100-percent track record on on spot energy markets, or
carbon reduction goals. delivering services to date -- and predicting and mitigating peaks
why it’s going to spend some of in energy consumption that
One of the big questions for its new funding on expanding trigger high demand charges, he
European grid operators is how the capabilities of its Flexpond said.
reliable, flexible and scalable software platform, Rombouts said.
demand-side resources can be In particular, it will be boosting its “As an aggregator, we believe we
in meeting grid needs. After all, data analytics capabilities to put are uniquely positioned, as we log
electricity isn’t just a commodity the immense amounts of data it’s massive amounts of this behind-
to be traded for grid needs pulling from its customer sites to the-meter data,” he said. “We are
for factories, warehouses, data new uses. really looking for patterns in the
centers, office buildings and other way that power is consumed. We
end customers -- it’s the lifeblood That could open up new want to learn what power is truly
of keeping their businesses possibilities for REstore’s flexible.” l
This article was first written by Jeff St. John, published on Greentech Media on 8 May and is republished with permission here.
www.europeanenergyinnovation.eu
