Flex Markets Unlocked Innovation Programme: Phase 2 projects
Updated 22 October 2024
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The Department is funding the following pilot project in Phase 2, who will develop and demonstrate their technical solution.
Flexibility market platform interoperability
Lead: Arup (Ove Arup & Partners Ltd.)
Project partners: Energy Systems Catapult, Chaddenwych Services Ltd (t/a Electron)
Amount awarded: £1,999,774.94
Location: London
Project summary:
Arup, Energy Systems Catapult, and Electron in partnership with Piclo, Greensync, and the University of Edinburgh, are bringing together their collective expertise in digitalisation and flexibility markets to develop solutions to help increase the amount of flexibility our energy system can utilise.
The work will bring together three components:
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Universal Market Register (UMR): Focused on the registration process for flexibility markets, this solution creates a universal profile for Flexibility Service Providers (FSPs), enabling them to port their identity across multiple market platforms with ease. The UMR integrates with the existing registers and provides the infrastructure and process to share relevant registration details seamlessly throughout the flexibility ecosystem.
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Flexibility Data Standards (FDS): Underpinning the entire FSP’s customer journey, the FDS enables users to digitally engage with flexibility markets in a consistent and interoperable way. The UMR requires FDS to address the challenge of Information Transparency through a common data model and schema within the Enterprise Data Architecture.
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Primacy Rules Testbed (PRTB): This will serve as a shared framework and digital toolkit for testing different algorithmic primacy rules and their impact. It will extract flexibility market data from data sources across the flexibility ecosystem into a cloudbased analytics platform where the primacy rules implications can be assessed.
The consortium intends to build a proof of concept and test solutions for the UMR, FDS, and PRTB during Phase 2. This includes integrations with the Electron’s ElectronConnect and Piclo’s PicloMax platforms, and with Greensync’s Central Asset Register for low carbon technology devices that is being developed under DESNZ’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.
The three components of the solution will benefit organisations seeking to best utilise their flexibility by moving it to different markets more easily, as well as support the industry monitor and develop flexibility markets with consistent data governance and a methodology for defining primacy rules (what services can be used when, where and by whom).