Collecting French Smart Meter Data for Residential Flexibility.

Most of western countries have successfully deployed smart meters and are now in a phase of exploration to regulate and leverage the use of smart meter data. In France, the Linky smart meter provides data locally to the end-users close to real-time, whereas it also makes 30 minutes data available to third party servers on the following day, which is inappropriate for operational energy services applications. In this work we detail the design of a full plug and play solution named Linky TIC Reader (LTR) to locally collect data from the French smart meter and make it available to end-users and to third party energy services providers in close to real time. This work demonstrates how we can democratize access to critical energy demand data, as to create intelligent energy demand profiles for the multi-objective optimization of consumer and electrical network constraints, with increased adoption of low carbon technologies. Furthermore, this article describes several applications of the LTR in residential flexibility procurement, including flexible load identification, flexibility events settlement or load control.