Legal and technical requirement of balancing markets

The deliverable include the description of the main technical and legal barriers to deploy demand-side management strategies such as peak shaving, load balance and load shifting and the relevant standards to comply with an open and interoperable information exchange model and emerging Smart Grid standards. These standard specifications, as well as the technical and legal barriers will be analysed and converted into requirements, assuring that the solution will be fully interoperable and accepted in the market and offer smooth implementation and operation, enabling direct market integration in the various electricity markets.