Challenge
Growing need for flexibilities in the climate neutrality network

• Fewer and fewer centralized conventional large-scale power plants are available for the provision of flexibility in the power grids.
• At the same time, the expansion of renewable energies is increasing the number of decentralized, controllable generation units (e.g. photovoltaic and wind power plants) and the number of decentralized, controllable consumption units (e.g. electric vehicles, storage systems, heat pumps).
• However, there is currently no cross-sectoral and comprehensive data provision of these units on the provision of flexibility in the climate neutrality network.

Goal
Unleashing of controllable units for cross-sector flexibility
• Simple and secure data exchange between controllable units (e. g. charging stations) and the energy data-X data ecosystem via Schneider Electric's energy management system
• Development of uniform and common standards for cross-company and cross-sector data exchange
• Creation of a concept for the integration of other players and assets (e. g. aggregators, fleet operators of commercial vehicles and passenger cars)

Solution Approach
• Connection of Schneider electric’s energy management system with a connector to the energy data ecosystem
• Definition of the available flex potential from connected controllable units
• Provision of flexibility options for the Use Case “Imbalance settlement quality” via the energy data ecosystem

Benefit for User
The "FleX" use case ...
• Allows aggregators to offer decentralized flexibility via innovative products and services
• provides balancing group managers and grid operators with a technical basis for accessing decentralised flexibility
• enables cost-effective, scalable machine-to-machine data exchange
• creates a scalable solution for the integration of a very large and constantly growing number of prosumers through data space technologies
• enables prosumers to provide their energy data securely and confidently by participating in the data ecosystem and to use innovative products and services of the data ecosystem

Challenge
Balancing group management requires more real-time data

• The balancing group manager (BGM) is responsible for balancing electricity supply and demand.
• In its role as balancing group coordinator (BGC), the transmission system operator checks all balancing groups in total for deviations and compensates for them with balancing energy. This currently causes costs for consumers as well as CO2 emissions.
• Due to the increasing number of new market players (e.g. prosumers, e-vehicles) with changed load profiles in the power grid, the management of balanced balancing groups is becoming more complex.
• More real-time data is needed for a prompt assessment of the situation by the BGM in order to react to deviations at short notice – as an important building block for ensuring security of supply.

Goal
Optimized balancing group management quality through faster data availability
• Provision of measured values in near real time and fine temporal granularity for BGM and BGC

Solution Approach
• Connection of smart meter gateways and the balancing group managers and coordinators via connectors to the energy data-X data ecosystem
• Provision of a forecasting service as a contract data processor for the BGM

Benefit for User
The use case "Imbalance settlement quality"...
• enables the BGM to determine the status of its balancing group in near real time by integrating a forecasting service
• can - by integrating the "FleX" use case - activate flexibility in a timely manner and thus reduce deviations in the balancing group of the BGM
• can reduce CO2 emissions and costs for electricity consumers by reducing the need for balancing energy

Compliance
Ensuring conformity with legal requirements, regulatory obligations, common data ecosystem standards, as well as internal policies and ethical principles
The establishment of compliance structures makes data exchange processes and internal workflows more transparent, controlled, and efficient
Strong compliance capabilities ensure a reliable business platform, foster lasting trust among all stakeholders, and strengthen integrity and responsible conduct
A functioning compliance system helps prevent reputational damage caused by malfunctions or legal violations and is especially critical for participant trust and market position
The definition and monitoring of clear compliance controls protect all participants from economic risks (e.g., fraud or antitrust violations) and ultimately from legal consequences

Development of a portal as a central access point to energy data-X
Access to data and applications and management of data releases via a central web portal
Ensuring a simple and secure onboarding process for natural persons as well as machines and applications in the energy data-X data ecosystem
Scalability of the onboarding process, even for a large number of participants (people and machines)
Collection of essential participant data and company-specific information
Simple usability of the portal with functions such as sharing own data, overview of granted access authorisations and obtaining the necessary credentials for own data queries

Federated Catalogue & Service Ofering
Development of a service for finding data and services
Facilitating the identification and use of data, assets and services by the players in the data ecosystem
Descriptions of data, assets, services and actors that are understandable for all market participants based on technical guidelines
Provision of an architecture that can be searched by participants, data, assets and services
Inclusion of the energy data-X use cases as the first services in this architecture

Secure identity management in energy data-X
Ensuring a high level of trust and security in human-to-machine and machine-to-machine data exchange
Establishment and integration of digital identities as a central component for authentication and authorisation in the data ecosystem
Automated determination of the identities of market players and their authorisations, taking into account the market roles in the energy industry
Traceability and auditability of all authentication and authorisation processes
Flexibility and scalability of identity management for future regulatory requirements

Secure digital networking with simultaneous data sovereignty
Application of the Tractus-X Connector
The connector is the standardised access to the energy data-X data ecosystem. It enables access to all data after authorisation ("single point of truth")
Non-established market roles can also gain simple access to the data ecosystem via the connector
Each participant in the data ecosystem can individually configure which data from their backend systems should be made available
Data exchanges can be automated in a sovereign (self-determined) and secure manner according to previously agreed rules
Data sovereignty remains with the data owner