Solution section
Retail & Demand-Side Coordination
How consumers, retailers, aggregators and flexible demand respond to the architecture.
Retail & Demand-Side Coordination
Consumers generally interact with the system through retail suppliers rather than participating natively in wholesale dispatch.
Retail products may include:
- fixed tariffs;
- time-of-use tariffs;
- dynamic tariffs;
- export tariffs;
- flexibility propositions.
Aggregators can combine smaller resources and expose them to balancing or flexibility markets.
The demand side therefore receives signals derived from several different layers of the architecture rather than from one unified physical-economic coordination mechanism.