BeFlexible Technology Booklet (2026)

High-level, project-wide summary booklet for BeFlexible, the EU Horizon Europe research and innovation project (2022–2026, 20 partners, €10.5M budget) that produced SWITCH and the Swedish local flexibility markets it runs, among many other outputs across three regional demonstrations. Unlike the two technical deliverables already in the wiki (Source - BeFlexible D5.1 Demo Planning and Deployment (2024), Source - BeFlexible D5.2 Demo Planning and Deployment 2 (2025)), which document the Swedish (North Europe) demo in operational detail, this booklet is a EU-wide, non-technical overview covering all 11 pilots across Italy, Sweden, and Spain/France — closer to a project brochure than a deliverable report.

Key content, by relevance to this wiki

North Europe (Swedish) demo — led by E.ON Energy Networks, E.ON Energy Infrastructure Solutions (EIS), Smart Innovation Norway and RWTH Aachen. States twelve market areas and 67.5 MW of prequalified capacity by 2025/2026 — the season figure, which supersedes the preliminary 25.2 MW count in Source - BeFlexible D5.2 Demo Planning and Deployment 2 (2025) for the same 12-area, 2025/26 season. D5.2 was compiled before the season closed, and further FSPs were prequalified afterwards, so the two are not a contradiction and D5.2’s 42% fill ratio is not the season’s final figure. Both figures are kept on E.ON Energidistribution rather than silently reconciled.

Describes HeatFlex as aggregating residential heat pumps for day-ahead and local-market participation — broader framing than the commercial-building Phase 1 pilot documented in D5.2 (ectocloud™ platform, ~20% cost reduction, 200 kW connected of ~1 MW potential). Not yet clear whether this reflects a separate/later residential pilot or just looser EU-level scope language.

Confirms district-heating asset optimisation (CHPs + utility-scale heat pumps co-optimised across energy and flexibility markets) as a North Europe demo output — consistent with, not additive to, the “District heating multimarket strategy” (36 MW aggregation target) already documented on E.ON Energidistribution from D5.2.

Other demos (out of Sweden/Nordics scope, summarised only):

• South-Mid Europe (Italy), led by ENEL/Areti/Terna/Gridspertise/RWTH/Engineering: Static and Dynamic Traffic Light (STL/DTL) tools for DSO–TSO prequalification and temporary-limits coordination; Power Grid User Interface and PMUs for grid observability (Rome pilot); CCI (medium-voltage) and Chain 3 Emulator (low-voltage) control/observability devices (Cuneo pilot); a water-distribution-network flexibility assessment case study.
• South-West Europe (Spain/France), led by i-DE: the Grid Data and Business Network (GDBN), a cross-platform data/business interoperability layer for flexibility procurement (stakeholder matching, prequalification, negotiation, clearing, settlement); the OMIE and grid-segmentation local flexibility market platforms; RECreation energy-community sizing/operation modules; EV route optimisation; a cloud-based ADMS/DERMS architecture on the SOGNO platform. Eight application cases across six Spanish/French locations.
• All Swedish and Spanish local-market platforms are described as building on CoordiNet, OneNet, and EUniversal — prior EU flexibility projects, confirming SWITCH‘s lineage from CoordiNet as part of a wider EU project family rather than a one-off Swedish development.

Project-level framing (not Sweden-specific, useful context): flexibility “does not scale through one technology alone” — requires stable rules, value-chain incentives, robust tools, and low customer-facing complexity. BeFlexible’s own consumer research found direct economic benefit (bill discounts) as the strongest adoption driver, with “worry-free”/automated participation especially valued — consistent with this wiki’s existing findings on Swedish household DR barriers.

Relevance to existing wiki topics

• SWITCH — confirms CoordiNet/OneNet/EUniversal lineage; no figures added here (the capacity-figure update went to E.ON Energidistribution instead, where the existing D5.2 figures already live)
• E.ON Energidistribution — 67.5 MW prequalified-capacity figure and residential-HeatFlex framing added to the existing “BeFlexible project” section
• CoordiNet — corroborates SWITCH’s origin as one of several platforms built on CoordiNet’s foundation across BeFlexible’s demos