A politically promoted alternative to grid expansion is managing congestions by the preventive use of flexibility options, such as flexible generation, load management and storage systems [2].
Even Britain is content in principle, though it insists that the use of flexibility should require the prior unanimous approval of everyone.
Consequently, coordination between system operators is needed to guarantee a safe, reliable, and cost-efficient use of flexibility-based services.
The Distribution System Operator (DSO) is faced with a need for market tools to enable more active system management through the use of flexibility.
Inefficient utilization of existing flexibility, or unwillingness of resources to provide flexibility, can compromise system reliability by not meeting the changing net load, and it can also lead to higher costs when an inefficient use of flexibility resources occurs.
Many countries think this would make flexibility pointless; but some have come to share British reservations about the use of flexibility in the first, main EU pillar, on the ground that it could undermine the single market and create two-tier membership.
Journal of Sound and Vibration 1988 120 1):107 25; Bapat AV, Venkatramani N, Suryanarayan S. The use of flexibility functions with negative domains in the vibration analysis of asymmetrically point-supported rectangular plates.
A possible compromise would be to insist on unanimity for any use of flexibility in the first pillar (where single-market concerns are strong), but allow majority approval to use it in the second or third pillars.The IGC may be esoteric but, without a successful treaty, enlargement talks cannot realistically start.
Men need to be open about their need for and use of flexibility, both informal and formal.
Though a majority of employees have workplaces that officially support the use of flexibility, the percentage of both male and female employees who believe that using flexibility could jeopardize their careers remains sizable across the various organizational and employee groups examined in our report (27%-49 27%-49
