FlexMeasures
FlexMeasures is an open-source energy flexibility platform (energy management / optimization) for forecasting, scheduling, and optimizing distributed energy resources in smart grids and portfolios.
- Time-series data management and forecasting for energy assets (data platform / analytics)
- Optimization of schedules for flexible loads, storage, and generation based on market and grid signals (energy optimization)
- Support for real-time and day-ahead decision support for energy service providers and aggregators (decision support)
- Extensible plugin and Application Programming Interface (API) architecture for integrating custom forecasting, optimization, and asset models (platform / extensibility)
- Tools for building energy flexibility services on top of existing metering, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and market systems (application enablement)
More About FlexMeasures
FlexMeasures is an open-source platform (energy management / optimization) focused on managing and monetizing energy flexibility from distributed energy resources such as batteries, electric vehicles, flexible loads, and Distributed Generation (DG). Developed within the LF Energy ecosystem, it provides a software layer for service providers, aggregators, and grid stakeholders to forecast, optimize, and operationalize flexibility in interaction with markets and grid constraints.
At its core, FlexMeasures offers time-series data management and analytics (data platform / analytics) tailored to energy use cases. It ingests and stores measurements, forecasts, and schedules for assets, prices, and signals, exposing them through APIs and a structured data model. On top of this data foundation, it integrates forecasting capabilities (forecasting / data science) for variables such as demand, generation, and prices, which can be implemented with different models and upgraded over time without changing the surrounding application logic.
The platform’s optimization engine (operations research / scheduling) calculates schedules for flexible assets, typically with the objective of cost reduction, self-consumption, or adherence to external signals such as grid constraints or flexibility markets. It supports both real-time and planning horizons, enabling day-ahead or intra-day scheduling as well as near-real-time adjustments. FlexMeasures exposes these capabilities through Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs and a web interface (application platform), so that operators and external systems can request optimized schedules or retrieve forecast data for operational workflows.
FlexMeasures is designed as an extensible platform (platform / extensibility), with a plugin architecture that allows integration of custom forecasting models, optimization formulations, asset types, and business logic. This makes it suitable as a base layer for energy service providers building flexibility services, Virtual Power Plant (VPP) solutions, or demand response applications. Its modular design supports integration with existing metering infrastructures, SCADA systems, market platforms, and other enterprise energy IT components through APIs and adapters.
Within enterprise and institutional environments, FlexMeasures can function as a central flexibility management component (energy IT / orchestration). Organizations can use it to coordinate multiple sites and asset portfolios, to prepare bids for flexibility or ancillary service markets, or to align local energy operations with grid constraints and tariff structures. As an LF Energy project, it aligns with open, interoperable approaches to digital infrastructure for the energy sector and can be combined with other open-source tools to form larger architectures for grid management, portfolio optimization, or energy-as-a-service offerings.