DSOs and Active Demand: ADDRESS Project outcomes and perspectives

ADDRESS (“Active Distribution networks with full integration of Demand and distributed energy RESourceS”) is a 5-year large-scale R&D project launched in June 2008 and ended in May 2013, receiving funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 207643. This project aims to develop a comprehensive commercial and technical framework for the development of “Active Demand” and the market-based exploitation of its benefits. In ADDRESS, “Active Demand” (AD) means the active participation of domestic and small commercial consumers in the electricity markets and in the provision of services to the other electricity system participants. The paper deals with the architecture and the algorithms developed as well as the validation field test and the AD perspectives being, at least from the technical point of view, a reality for the smart grid of the (next) future.