morFLEX

In the morFLEX sub-project, generic hardware and software solutions are being developed to make electricity consumption more flexible. The focus is on the scalability of flexibility through demand side management (DSM), i.e. by controlling the demand for electricity in an electricity system.   

The aim of morFLEX is to realize the potential of DSM cost-effectively and via a scalable system without having to develop complex individual solutions for individual industrial companies. The idea is to develop a kind of universal toolbox that makes it possible to map a large number of different system constellations in a simple way and thus make them automatically usable as flexibility. This toolbox includes automatically supplying the required machine learning and optimization algorithm technologies with the necessary data in order to quickly adapt them to the various constellations and framework conditions.

As part of morFlex, generic hardware and software solutions are being developed that enable the flexible and cost-effective commercial integration of various industrial consumption and generation systems. The research results serve as the basis for the development of a service model specifically for energy supply companies and energy contractors. This would enable them to provide a large number of consumer customers with the technical connection and economic utilization of their flexibility potential without changing existing contracts between consumers, suppliers and the respective balancing group managers. In this way, the flexibility that is essential for the success of the energy transition can be increased in an economically favorable way, thus ensuring the stability of the energy system even with a high proportion of renewable energies. This not only offers companies macroeconomic advantages, they also benefit from additional revenue and cost savings for energy procurement if they provide flexible systems, and their competitiveness is increased.

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The project morFLEX is coordinated, managed and implemented by the CC4E's cooperation partner in this project, dezera GmbH.

dezera GmbH is a spin-off of scientific employees of HAW Hamburg, who have gained a high level of expertise in energy economics and technology through several previous research projects in the fields of smart grids and demand side management (DSM). The corporate goal of dezera is to increase the flexibility of the energy system by making it easy to integrate and use flexible electrical systems.