Cross-Market Optimal Flexibility Scheduling for Local Energy and Flexibility Aggregators in the Residential Sector

With the electrification of the mobility and heat sectors, new challenges and opportunities arise due to an increase of controllable loads in distribution grids. Increasing self-consumption while considering grid constraints becomes even more important to mitigate expensive grid reinforcement, decrease curtailed energy and improve renewable energy integration. This paper introduces a novel approach to address both interests of grid operators and energy communities by implementing a dual market optimization. Aggregators decide based on their own demand, generation, and flexibility availability whether to respond in increasing/decreasing capacity in response to grid operators’ offers.