morFLEX

The aim of morFLEX was to realise the potential of Demand Side Management (DSM) cost-effectively and via a scalable system, without having to develop complex individual solutions for individual industrial companies. A kind of universal toolbox was developed for this purpose, which makes it possible to map a large number of different system constellations in a simple way and thus utilise them automatically as flexibility. This toolbox includes automatically supplying the required machine learning and optimisation algorithm technologies with the necessary data in order to quickly adapt them to the various constellations and framework conditions.

Results

As part of morFlex, generic hardware and software solutions were developed that enable the flexible and cost-effective commercial integration of various industrial consumption and generation systems. The research results served as the basis for the development of a service model specifically for energy supply companies and energy contractors. These are able to enable a large number of consumer customers to technically connect and economically utilise 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 favourable way, thus ensuring the stability of the energy system also with high proportions of renewable energy. 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.

Further information on morFLEX can be found in the freely available final report of the sub-project.

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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.