Flex4Grid is application that allows Flex4Grid program participants to control their devices and appliances and improve their home energy usage.
Key features:
-Control your smart plugs
-Show your device and home energy usage
-React to peaks in the energy network
-Earn points by reacting the peaks and compete with other participants
The development of Flex4Grid application is supported by Flex4Grid (Prosumer Flexibility Services For Smart Grid Management) -project funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme H2020-LCE-2014-2015, Innovation action H2020-LCE-2014-3, Work programme LCE‐07‐2014 Distribution grid and retail market under grant agreement no. 646428”
The Flex4Grid activity aims at providing a system for new market players offering data analytics and aggregation services for Distribution System Operators (DSO) to forecast and influence the load on the grid avoiding blackouts caused by network overloads or lack of power supplies. Based on the anonymised and aggregated information supplied by Flex4Grid applications, the DSOs are able to plan and react on consumption and generation peaks by providing business incentives to prosumers in the value chain to balance the energy load. Flex4Grid will also enable communication between prosumers’ grid tie inverters to control the amount of power coming to the network to avoid network overload.