Active User Participation in Energy Markets Through Activation of Distributed Energy Resources

Customers in liberalized energy markets do not have tools in hand to contribute to the balancing of undispatchable distributed generation and the uncontrolled loads. This paper discusses how an activation of the loads could make users more involved in energy markets and indirectly support the sustainable deployment of distributed generation often based on locally available renewable energy sources. As such, a contribution is made to the security of supply through a larger resource diversification and the smaller customers may be engaged in delivering certain types of ancillary services such as reserve provision.