The Role of Buildings in Power Market Flexibility
18 Nov 2025
Energy Storage & Flexible Demand Hub (Hall 3)
Session: Demand-Side Flexibility in Action: How it Can Increase Industrial Competitiveness
This presentation focuses on the topic of Demand Response 4.0, and will demonstrate that:
- Demand Response (DR) from residential and commercial buildings has the potential to provide large scale flexibility solutions to power grids.
- Advanced automation and control using IoT, cloud computing, AI to build VPPs can aggregate and dynamically optimise consumption from millions of Distributed Energy Resources in real time.
- Demand-side flexibility from buildings is the largest untapped reservoir of flexibility in Europe
- DR can lower prices and bills for consumers, secure the system, decarbonise peakload power
- DR can be complementary to and competitive with other sources of flexibility, such as batteries
- Explicit DR can support policy makers and SOs in by dynamic tariffs more effective and efficient.
- Energy companies, property managers, grid operators and policy markers need to think in terms of a complementary portfolio of flexibility solutions
- Smart flexible buildings using DR4.0 are a competitive, fast and scalable solution as part of that portfolio
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