GLocalFlex, New Flexibility Solutions and Services. Cross-Pilot Overarching Business Use Cases

The GLocalFlex project aims to mobilise demand side flexibility in a replicated manner. A novel element is an auction marketplace where individual households up to industrial size consumers provide batches of flexibility to one or many procurers. In that sense, it is necessary to describe new business models and to develop, deploy, demonstrate and evaluate the newly developed flexibility solutions and services. GLocalFlex will demonstrate the interaction of the novel marketplace with six pilots across Europe. Based on the specific business use cases to be deployed by the different pilots, eight overarching business use cases, which reflect the main objectives of the business use cases proposed by the pilots, have been identified. This paper presents a description of the overarching business use cases, their relevance for the different pilots and how the use of the GLocalFlex marketplace will contribute to facilitating the provision of flexibility by small consumers.