In a world with renewable energy, flexibility is crucial and valuable. Planning ahead allows flexible assets to serve the whole system with their flexibility, e.g. by shifting or curtailing energy use. This can also be profitable for their owners.
The FlexMeasures Platform is a tool for scheduling flexible actions for energy assets. For this purpose, it performs three services:
- Monitoring of incoming measurements
- Forecasting of expected measurements
- Scheduling flexible actions with custom optimization
For more on FlexMeasures services, read :ref:`services`. Or head right over to :ref:`getting_started`.
Using FlexMeasures benefits operators as well as asset owners, by allowing or automation, insight, autonomy and profit sharing. For more on benefits, consult :ref:`benefits`.
FlexMeasures is compliant with the Universal Smart Energy Framework (USEF). Therefore, this documentation uses USEF terminology, e.g. for role definitions. The intended users of FlexMeasures are a Supplier (energy company) and its Prosumers (asset owners who have energy contracts with that Supplier). The platform operator of FlexMeasures can be an Aggregator.
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:caption: Purpose
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services
benefits
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :hidden: getting-started configuration changelog
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:caption: The in-built UI
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views/dashboard
views/portfolio
views/analytics
views/admin
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:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Tutorials
tut/supplier
tut/prosumer
tut/aggregator
tut/esco
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:caption: The API
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api/introduction
api/simulation
api/v2_0
api/v1_3
api/v1_2
api/v1_1
api/v1
api/change_log
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:caption: The CLI
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cli/commands
cli/change_log
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:caption: Developers
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dev/introduction
dev/data
dev/api
dev/ci
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:caption: Integrations
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int/introduction
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:caption: Narrative contents
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qa/users
qa/assets
qa/markets
qa/algorithms
qa/data
Go To :ref:`source`.