CEER Paper on DSO Procedures of Procurement of Flexibility

This paper provides insights on what the implications are for incentives, prerequisites and interactions among the involved parties with DSO access to and use of flexibility. The aim of the paper is to elaborate how flexibility can be made available and how market-based procurement procedures could be arranged at the distribution level, focusing on necessary preconditions and different methods giving an overview of most of the aspects to contemplate on a European level, taking into account the room for adaptation to national circumstances.