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

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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.