Secure System Flexibility in Integrated European Energy Markets

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Power Flexibility provides you with a chance to quickly find a publication venue and/or high-quality content focused at systems flexibility in a broad sense, which embraces an operational flexibility of the transmission and distribution side as well as the power flexibility of the demand side. Flexibility of power systems and networks primarily means the ability to respond in a timely manner to variations in electricity supply and demand in order to maintain the power balance and/or solve local power transfer or quality problems (e.g. local congestions). The system flexibility plays a crucial role in todays and future interconnected power systems dependent on a growing share of renewables that inevitably brings increasing volatility into the power supply mix.  The growing volatility due to massive installation of decentralized and uncontrollable power generation units and implementation of novel market arrangements influencing demand side power flows represents challenges for control and management of todays and future grids affecting both transmission and distribution systems.  To cope with such changes, the effective use of the system flexibility will contribute to deferring large investments in power network reinforcements. Nowadays, development of mechanisms and solutions for efficient flexibility utilization has strongly interdisciplinary character and a holistic approach needs to be applied for optimal flexibility use in market and technical services, which opens unprecedent cooperation opportunities from wire range of domains.

The European Union as well as other advanced economics worldwide strive to establish flexibility markets to enhance the reliability of integrated power systems and to reduce its capital and operating costs, which has strong impact on the energy poverty reduction from the societal point of view. The flexibility markets proposed by European Commission should contribute to carbon neutrality by 2050, therefore the EC supports numerous R,D&I projects focused on the flexibility utilization in various contexts.

We cordially invite interested researchers, practitioners, regulators, and decision makers to participate on this Special Issue either as contributors or readers – ideally both.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomáš Pitner
Guest Editor

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• Power system flexibility
• network-secure flexibility
• energy markets
• flexibility aggregator
• flexibility model
• interoperability