While it is widely acknowledged that there is an increasingly urgent need to introduce demand side flexibility in the energy system, questions remain about how to do it, where to do it, who should...

Balance of Power On October 2nd, 2018, USEF Foundation launched ‘Balance of Power’, a serious game to promote better understanding of future energy market challenges  and potential solutions. The interactive documentary-based game is aimed at...

The sequence of review board meetings for the year is finalized and the USEF Design team is now working on the key design updates for USEF 2018. Elements of this work will be published...

The Memorandum of Understanding relates to provision of an impact analysis to determine USEF’s fit with the creation of the Smart Market Design of SINTEG project, enera. Focus is on a verification mechanism underlying...

DRIvE is an EU H2020 consortium project with 9 partners from 7 European countries. It aims to penetrate EU demand response markets by linking cutting-edge Multi-Agent System science, forecasting and cyber security with emerging innovative...

Smart Solar Charging, is a  consortium project in Utrecht, Netherlands. During periods of high solar production and low demand, surplus energy is stored in (pool) electric vehicle batteries. By the end of 2018, DSO, Stedin,...

USEF’s DSO Workstream has been working since November 2016 to assess the challenges faced by European DSOs as a result of energy system transition. The primary challenge identified was how to manage current and...

Colin Taylor and Alex Walmsley work at SP Energy Networks in the UK. The company operates as both a DSO and TSO in central and southern Scotland and, as a DSO, also covers Merseyside,...