The EU electricity market design reform — Regulation (EU) 2024/1747 and Directive (EU) 2024/1711, in force since 16 July 2024, with national transposition following the Directive’s deadlines — points every member state in one direction: flexible connections, transparent capacity, smarter operation before more copper. Austria’s ElWG is one worked example of that direction.
Member states must enable connections with temporary limitations in constrained areas — the same mechanism Austria's flexibler Netzzugang implements, and the same operational question: how do you compute a limit that is safe and as generous as the grid allows?
Operators must publish available hosting capacity at meaningful spatial resolution — not an annual PDF but a maintained, queryable picture of where the grid can take more.
Connection requests get a statutory response clock. Answering fast and defensibly requires knowing your grid's state and headroom continuously — not commissioning a study per request.
Regulation 2024/1747 and Directive 2024/1711 point every member state the same way; national law decides how fast the clocks run — and what a distribution operator has to be able to show.
Flexible network access with deadlines, quarterly capacity publication, generation peak capping and a network development plan from 1,000 metering points.
Defined controllable consumption devices at low voltage: connection cannot be refused on congestion grounds, grid import reducible to a minimum allowance, reduced network charges in return.
A legal foundation for active customers, local flexibility pilots at the DSO level and a reformed national dispatching framework — with coordination between DSOs and the TSO.
Austria’s ElWG (in force since December 2025) translates the EU direction into concrete requirements and timelines: flexible network access with 12–24-month full-access deadlines under its temporary route, quarterly capacity publication on a shared platform, network development plans from 1,000 metering points, and generation peak capping under § 101 (PV in force, wind from 2027). Operators elsewhere in Europe reading this page are looking at their own near future — and the tooling question is identical everywhere: find the capacity in the grid you have, prove it physically, and keep the published picture current. That is what FLEX supports, on any grid that can export a model.
The ElWG in detail →The regulation is converging; the grids differ. A PoC on your data shows what the EU frame means for your network specifically.
