Contracting flexibility services

To substantiate and structure demand-side flexibility aggregation, a legally binding contract between aggregator and consumers is key. Flexibility contracts are the focus of this work. The work is elaborating on the experiences from US demand-response programs where flexibility contracts currently exist between aggregators and large-scale consumers. The main contribution of this work is to extend the American event-based flexibility contracts for larger-scale consumers, to the Danish case which is significantly different. The result is a contract template with the core contract elements that need to be determined to ensure an enforceable, reliable, and efficient relationship between aggregator and consumer.