Conventional Generation | Transmission | Distribution | Customers Services |
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Black start | Participation to the primary frequency control | Capacity support | End-user peak shaving |
Arbitrage | Participation to the secondary frequency control | Dynamic, local voltage control | Time-of-use energy cost management |
Support to conventional generation | Participation to the tertiary frequency control | Contingency grid support | Particular requirements in power quality |
| Improvement of the frequency stability of weak grids | Intentional islanding | Continuity of energy supply |
| Investment deferral | Reactive power compensation | Limitation of upstream disturbances |
| Participation to angular stability | Distribution power quality | Compensation of the reactive power |
| | Limitation of upstream perturbations | |
Renewable Generation | | | |
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Distributed generation flexibility | | | |
Capacity firming | | | |
Limitation of upstream perturbations | | | |
Curtailment minimisation | | | |