Integrated Project: The birth of a EUropean Distributed EnErgy Partnership – EU-DEEP

EU-DEEP is a project developed to support the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) into Electricity systems within a short-medium term horizon. The main concern is to provide answers to tackle the different types of barriers to DER deployment:

Technology barriers

• technological recommendations to allow massive DER penetration on the network
• methodology to assess the hosting capacity, i.e. the optimum DER penetration level at a local scale

Market barriers

• new knowledge about European market potentials for DER
• new tools to appraise the flexibility of the end users’ demand in electricity

Regulatory barriers

• proposals for new electricity market frameworks
• recommendations on network costs allocations

Three business models have been selected for development in view of valuing the benefits of DER in the system and of optimising this value. They will rely on the aggregation of dispatchable generation units and on the flexibility of end users’ demand in electricity as key sources of value creation.