Small Flexibility Based Frequency Containment Reserves - Opportunities analysis and modeling

Due to an increase of renewables in the electricity mix in Europe in the last years, balancing services being provided by small aggregators is getting increasingly important. The aim of this thesis is to qualitatively analyze different market accesses in Europe for small flexibility based FCR providers. For the analysis, five different countries were chosen: Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Portugal and Spain. For the market access analysis for FCR services of the different countries, the prequalification process of each of them was explained and later compared. Out of the five countries compare... Mehr ...