Methodologies and Proposals to Facilitate the Integration of Residential Consumers in Electricity Markets and Smart Grids Resumen: Abstract Future electricity grids need to be flexible on the demand-side to make credible decarbonizing energy policy (specially, the integration of renewable sources). Therefore, international trends establish that Power Systems will need more active consumers which will have small generation resources, some storage facility and should increase electrification (e.g., transportation). Traditional barriers begin to break down; for instance, the consideration and remuneration of demand and generation resources (considering their capacities). An active participation of customers and the demonstration of their real and future capabilities are important challenges for small and medium segments. The research network REDYD-2050 has been funded by Spanish Ministry of Science since 2015 and it integrates ten research groups in key technologies areas for the development of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). This work presents the objectives of REDYD-2050, some of its works, points of view and experiences in different problems dealing with load and storage modeling, aggregation, load control and monitoring, enabling technologies, cybersecurity concerns, markets, demand and generation forecasting. All these methodologies with the aim to integrate DER and propose innovative solutions to problems which will appear in the short and medium term. |