Mission

Nodis supported transmission and distribution system operators in the rollout of digital flexibility market platforms that enable large-scale participation of decentralized energy assets in balancing markets. The focus was to lower entry barriers, reduce costs, and significantly increase liquidity — from residential to industrial flexibility.

Objectives

• Open balancing markets to smaller assets
  Adapt end-to-end processes (prequalification, aggregation/disaggregation, bidding and settlement) to support heterogeneous and small-scale flexibility providers.

• Enable scalable business cases through private metering
  Replace costly regulated submeters with a secure IoT-based metering framework, allowing thousands of distributed assets to participate in FCR and aFRR while maintaining auditability and trust.

• Enable cross-grid services (DSO assets in TSO services)
  Establish coordinated operational processes and jointly commissioned platforms across system operators to allow services to be delivered irrespective of grid level.

Our contribution

Nodis acted as lead business architect and analyst across the full lifecycle — from concept to production rollout. We designed and delivered:

• A real-time IoT communication platform for asset interaction
• A flexibility hub managing decentralized asset registration and metering data
• Market processes enabling aggregation at residential and SME scale
• Multi-stakeholder coordination between TSOs, DSOs, BSPs and technology vendors

The solution was delivered within a short time-to-market and enabled rapid onboarding of medium-size to residential flexibility, substantially increasing market participation and liquidity