Framework for estimating flexibility of commercial and industrial customers in Smart Grids

A new framework was created to estimate technical flexibility in electricity consumption of commercial and industrial customers. By classifying flexibility, building blocks could be created for several sources of flexibility, which can be inserted into a framework, allowing the construction of a power profile, including flexibility potential. The proposed framework gives insight in maximal potential of Demand Side Management (DSM) and is applicable for Smart (micro) Grid project developers.