7 December 2023: Inter-ETF crosspollination conference in Ghent, Belgium

On December 7th, 2023, together with two other projects funded by the Belgian Energy Transition Fund, FlexSys and ALEXANDER, Demandflex organised a workshop on novel ideas and innovative solutions developed within the three projects.

Partners from all projects, together with relevant stakeholders from the energy sector touched upon many crucial topics of discussion:

How to move from a successful theory towards an impactful experiment? Leverage on co-creation workshops, don't make it too complex, but rely on automation to decrease the mental burden.
How to grasp consumer preferences to develop new business models and market models? Taking the sociological perspective, using discrete choice experiments to capture preferences revealed for example in the ALEXANDER project that consumers are afraid of giving up control, but are motivated in case the benefits of their flexibility are for their own purpose (e.g. increase of self-consumption).
The flexibility potential is high, but the gap between the theoretical potential and the real potential requires a multi-stakeholder action plan.

Link to the event: https://alexander-project.vito.be/en/cross-pollination-workshop

Updated on August 23, 2024