Flexibility services to power systems from smart rural microgrid prosumers

The innovation proposed by modern grid paradigms forces to create cutting-edge solutions for managing and integrating software microgrid technologies, as well as hardware ones. In this view, the possibility of exploiting the flexibility of the smart actors of the power system is a key aspect for designing both technical and economic smart grid scenarios in a wide range of energy contexts. In this paper, a smart ICT platform for the management of the flexibility provided by the actors of a microgrid is proposed. Its architecture, functionalities and tools are presented and widely discussed, along with its implementation in a real-life demonstrator located in Terni, Italy.