 The EU-DEEP project, developed by eight different European energy companies, was designed so that most of the technical and non-technical issues which halt a massive deployment of distributed energy resources (DER) in Europe could be eliminated.To address the wide range of challenges associated with operating the electricity system of the future, the leading Transmission system operator (TSOs) and Distribution System Operators (DSOs), manufacturers and research establishments in the EU have formed a consortium of 18 partners to undertake a 4-year project code named FENIX whose overall aim is