Easy Smart Grid GmbH

The future of highly volatile renewable energy systems relies on flexible consumer behavior, cost-effective storage and high levels of decentralization to limit grid expansion and electricity cost. Sector coupling of electricity, heat and cooling will play a major role here - also in the area of complementary generation of electricity with the help of CHP. Throw the minimization of the transaction costs it will be possible to activate even the smallest flexibilities, achieving a more cost effective and efficient energy transition. At the same time, a difficult task has to be solved, to make system complexity manageable and to maintain security of supply. Decentralized energy management based on grid state variables (Smart Grid 2.0) enables to meet these requirements. Flexible loads can help manage grid bottlenecks more cheaply than the alternatives grid extension or energy storage with batteries. Local markets can easily be created to share energy within communities or manage demand: energy intensive electric vehicles or heat pumps can coordinate their operation among themselves, based on their individual urgencies and thus different willingness to pay. These solutions also answer the growing demand for more flexibility, transparency, simplicity, resiliency and economic efficiency.