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30 Spring 2019 European Energy Innovation

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“Closing the gap”: Aggregators as Enablers of Prosumers and Consumers Active Participation
in the Energy Markets

“Closing Aggregators should be intermediaries to put “Consumers at the heart of the

the gap”Energy Union”. The regulations in the “Clean Energy for all Europeans”
Package envisage a situation in long term prospective where the consumers
and prosumers are more integrated in the energy market.
Currently, aggregators are mostly acting for industrial and commercial consumers. Domestic
consumers, and prosumers, do not have means to trade directly in the energy markets and require the

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consumers in the energy markets.

Aggregators should be intermediaries to put “Consumers
at the heart of the Energy Union”. The regulations in the
“Clean Energy for all Europeans” Package envisage a
situation in long term prospective where the consumers
and prosumers are more integrated in the energy market.

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deployment of curRreenntebwusainbelses Emnoedreglsiehsa,vbeaaslseodbienenMduefninicehd., GTheermbuasinnye.ss models were tested to
define the feasibility for the real-life implementation. Eight of them passed the test and have been

implemented under real life conditions with consumers and prosumers from several European
Member States. In the last three years, four fundamental steps have been

achieved with the aim to guarantee the implementation

of the business models for aggregators of decentralized

renewable energy systems and an active participation of

prosumers and consumers in the energy markets:

1. Analysis of the existing business models
2. Improvement of business models and testing phase
3. Implementation of business models in real-life conditions
4. Identification of National and European enabling

conditions for the uptake of business models for the
aggregation of decentralized renewable energy systems

Thirteen business models have been analyzed and
improved during the BestRES project. The analysis
focused on technical, market, environmental and social
benefits that aggregators bring to power markets and
systems. The technical, regulatory, and legal barriers

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