AutoFlex - Automatic demand response and its effects on grid capacity and power tariffs. Is there a difference between collaborative optimization and single customer tariff optimization?

The project intends to study the feasibility of an automated demand response program from both a customer and system perspective, as well as develop guidelines for grid operators implementing power tariffs.

The project aims to empirically demonstrate that capacity utilization can be increased by at least 15% without physical investments in the grid and to study the impact of choice of optimization strategy.

The Swedish Energy Agency believes that the project has good potential to meet the challenges of the call by providing increased knowledge on the technical, economic and social potential entailed in automated demand response.