ADDRESS Technical and Commercial Conceptual Architectures - Core document

ADDRESS (Active Distribution networks with full integration of Demand and distributed energyRESourceS) is a four-year large-scale R&D European project launched in June 2008. The project coordinator is ENEL Distribuzione SpA and the consortium consists of 25 partners from 11 European countries spanning the entire electricity supply chain, qualified R&D bodies, SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) and manufacturers. The aim of the project is to develop a comprehensive commercial and technical framework for the development of Active Demand in the smart grids of the future.In ADDRESS, Active Demand (AD) means the active participation of domestic and small commercial consumers in the power system markets and in the provision of services to the different power system participants. Within ADDRESS, Active Demand involves all types of equipment that may be installed at the consumers (or prosumers) premises: electrical appliances (pure loads), distributed generation (such as photo-voltaic arrays or micro-turbines) and thermal or electrical energy storage systems.Deliverable D1.1, entitled Conceptual architecture including description of: participants, signals exchanged, markets and market interactions, overall expected system functional behaviour, has been produced in Work Package 1 (WP1) of the project. The main objective of this deliverable is to describe the conceptual technical and commercial architectures developed to enable active demand (AD) and exploit its benefits, and more specifically: 1. the participants and other components of the architectures, 2. the services that could be provided by AD and the markets interactions, 3. the different interactions between the participants and the design of the signals exchanged between them in relation to the provision of these services, 4. the overall system behaviour both from the commercial and technical points of view and the corresponding basic requirements for the implementation of the architectures, 5. the issues to be solved and potential barriers to be removed.Deliverable D1.1 is composed of two reports:- The present report which is the core document of the deliverable and provides a condensed and hopefully reader-friendly description of the technical and commercial architectures developed in the ADDRESS project. - A second document containing the appendices which provide a detailed description of topics covered in the core document.