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Energy flexibility: a proposed advisory roadmap

Coordinating flexible demand could help with peaks and storage, but only as decision support that never weakens protection.

Energy flexibility is on the GridFlex roadmap as a separate, advisory module. It is not part of the current concept's core, and no savings or market participation are claimed.

Compare actions

The idea is to evaluate approved demand reductions, storage scheduling and authorized energy exchanges under local constraints, so operators can compare options.

Preserve commitments

Any integration with computing workloads would have to respect service requirements and customer permissions.

Keep protection separate

Optimization cannot override safety or protective functions. Advice about energy use stays separate from safety authority.

Validate before automation

The roadmap starts with decision support. Any move toward automation would follow evaluation and explicit approval.

See the proposed solutions overview.