Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology
Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology

Intelligent Flexibility Use

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Decentralized Flexibility Options

The increasing decentralized and renewable energy supply is leading to a growing need for new flexibility options. As a result, players such as energy suppliers and aggregators are faced with the challenge of making millions of new energy systems scalable, secure, and reliable
accessible via modern communication technologies. This requires innovative plug & play-capable approaches based on the latest IT technologies, which also guarantee the requirements of resilient data transmission.

As an interdisciplinary team, we offer our support in connecting and using the various flexibility options. Our services range from technical and conceptual consulting to prototype applications as well as our operational software EnergyConnect, the modern virtual power plant.

 

 

Our areas of expertise

  • Secure and reliable system communication, including through the use of intelligent metering systems (iMSys) and the associated smart meter gateway (SMGW) as required by the German Digitalization Restart Act (GNDEW).
  • Measures to increase resilience, including the detection of incidents, in order to meet the increased security requirements in accordance with European (NIS 2), national (BSIG, IT-SiG 3.0) and industry-specific (B3S) regulations.
  • Virtual power plant technologies to demonstrate the provision of system services (including control reserve, redispatch) with renewable generators and flexible storage or load facilities. In this context, we are actively working on the further development of IT and pre-qualification requirements in the control reserve for an increasingly small-scale, decentralized energy market.
  • As an innovator, we combine our expertise in information and communication technologies with the concept of the energy data spaces for interoperable and standardized cross-company data exchange within the energy sector.
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Current Projects

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Resilience

AI-based detection and resilient prevention of cyber attacks and technical faults in virtual power plants and decentralized energy resources

SecDER

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iMSys Large-scale plants

Control of large-scale plants such as wind farms via iMSys and CLS devices for control reserve and redispatch applications

 

MEGA

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Bidirectional e-trucks

Intelligent use of the flexibilities of bidirectional charging of e-trucks at logistics depots for spot market and ancillary services

 

SPIRIT-E

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Scalable IKT

Evaluation of the scalability of modern ICT using the iMSys infrastructure and the concept of energy data spaces

Utilispaces

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Interoperabilität

Linking innovative data space technology with the smart meter gateway to reduce balancing group imbalances and control decentralized energy resources

Energydata-x

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Sector Coupling

Cross-sector use optimization of hybrid power plants from wind farms, electrolysers and heat pumps

 

Optinetz bosbüll

References

E-vehicle control reserve

Scientific monitoring of a field test with 155 electric vehicles for the provision of control reserves

 

EV Fleet

Flexible markets

Connection of a virtual power plant to a regional flexibility market to reduce grid bottlenecks

 

nEw4.0

Network restoration

Use of renewable energy resoures for system-serving behavior in critical grid situations and for grid restoration (black start capability)

sysanduk

Renewable grid services in Europe

Supply strategies and ICT requirements for the provision of balancing power with wind and PV parks in Europe

 

restable

Control vis SMGW

Analysis of the technical feasability of remote controllability with a smart meter gateway

enavi white paper

Reactive power

Provision of reactive power from a pool of wind and PV systems, taking grid operator requirements into account

 

rEgions

DIN EN ISO/IEC 27001 Certification


For Fraunhofer IEE, the secure and efficient handling of critical data and secure information systems is important. That is why we have had an information security management system (ISMS) certified for various business areas. The focus is on efficient risk management and continuous improvement of information security, for example by being prepared for possible cyber attacks and IT emergencies. The functionality of our ISMS is regularly checked in external audits by independent third parties.

Our DIN EN ISO/IEC 27001:2017 certification expired on 9.5.2024. We are preparing for recertification in accordance with the updated DIN EN ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard at the beginning of 2025.