The project BeFlexible has reached its final stage, connecting its outcome with EU priorities, including grid development, flexibility markets and consumer engagement. The BeFlexible project achieved significant progress in defining roles and responsibilities within regulation and in exploring different flexibility mechanisms and their possible combinations. The project is now focused on consolidating these results, extracting key lessons learned and translating them into actionable recommendations to support future market design and regulatory developments.
With 21 partners involved, 11 pilot demonstrations across Italy, Sweden, Spain, and France are delivering concrete results, highlighting the value of demand-side flexibility, digital coordination, and consumer participation in real-world conditions. Consumers can expect direct benefit from revenue gained from participation in flexibility markets, reduction of tariff components and engagement in grid management. Flexibility proved to be not just a technical challenge, but a matter of coordination among actors, markets, and users. Distribution System Operators (DSOs) could benefit from flexibility providing an alternative approach to grid planning in managing security of supply. Congestion management and voltage control can be improved, enhancing both quality of supply and cost-effectiveness. Transmission System Operators (TSOs) could benefit through increased liquidity in ancillary services markets, enabling more efficient system balancing and operation. One of the takeaways is that generic communication does not work, as success depends on tailoring messages to the diverse characteristics of the residential market. This marks the end of a “one-size-fits-all” approach and highlights the importance of customer segmentation.