30 May 2019
The energy landscape is shifting away from fossil fuels towards more sustainable electricity sources, and from vertically integrated monopolies to unbundled and competitive markets. Energy markets have been historically designed around centralised sources, however renewable energy generation requires a different approach – integrating different decentralised sources, energy storage and strengthening linkages with the demand side. […]
17 December 2018 - On the occasion of the EUW, the European Utility Week, the BestRES Consortium organized the workshop “Aggregators as enablers of prosumers participation in the energy market” (6th November 2018, Vienna, Austria). This workshop provided the participants with an overview on business models and legal framework for aggregators acting in the future markets to support consumers engagement […]
06 December 2018 - On November 26, 2018, smartEn released its new edition of The smartEn map: balancing markets edition. Opening up balancing markets to demand response and decentralised energy resources allows innovative energy business models to flourish and brings numerous benefits to society. By allowing all technologies and service providers to participate in balancing markets, Europe can avoid the […]
20 September 2018 - The BestRES project developed 13 Business Models to facilitate the integration of renewable energy sources into the energy market by aggregating distributed generation and combining it with demand side management and energy storage. However, these Business Models encounter various barriers on their way, be it of economic, technical or legal nature. The paper “The impact […]