OMI-POLO ESPANOL SA

Their core work

OMIE is the nominated electricity market operator (NEMO) for the Iberian Peninsula, managing the day-ahead and intraday electricity markets for Spain and Portugal. In H2020 projects, they contribute deep expertise in energy market design, trading mechanisms, and the integration of distributed energy resources into wholesale and ancillary service markets. Their role centers on validating how new flexibility sources — prosumers, vehicle-to-grid, demand response — can participate in real electricity markets under viable regulatory and commercial frameworks.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

OMIE entered H2020 in 2020 with projects focused on traditional market themes: integrating distributed generation, solar PV, and prosumers into existing wholesale and ancillary service markets (DRES2Market, OneNet). By 2021, their focus shifted toward consumer-facing flexibility — demand response, digital twins, energy social networks, V2G business models, and new contractual frameworks. This evolution reflects a clear move from supply-side market integration toward demand-side flexibility monetization and e-mobility.

OMIE is moving toward designing market mechanisms for demand-side flexibility, V2G, and prosumer services — signaling readiness to validate new energy trading products in real market environments.

How they like to work

OMIE participates exclusively as a partner, never as coordinator — consistent with their role as a market operator contributing domain expertise rather than leading research agendas. They work in large consortia (121 unique partners across 4 projects), indicating comfort in multi-national, multi-stakeholder environments. Their value in a consortium is as the entity that can validate whether a proposed energy service or product can actually function in a real electricity market.

OMIE has collaborated with 121 unique partners across 25 countries through just 4 projects, reflecting the large-scale, pan-European nature of energy market integration initiatives. Their network spans the full EU energy ecosystem — TSOs, DSOs, technology providers, and research institutions.

What sets them apart

OMIE is not a research lab or technology company — they ARE the Iberian electricity market. This gives them a uniquely authoritative role in any project that needs to validate whether new energy products, flexibility services, or trading mechanisms work under real market conditions. For consortium builders, having OMIE on board means direct access to one of Europe's major power exchanges for piloting and market validation.

Highlights from their portfolio

• OneNet
  Pan-European initiative to create a unified TSO-DSO coordination framework, placing OMIE at the center of cross-border market interoperability.
• V2Market
  Directly addresses the commercial viability of vehicle-to-grid services — a frontier topic where market operator involvement is critical for real-world deployment.
• REDREAM
  Largest EC contribution to OMIE (EUR 304,500), tackling the full prosumer ecosystem including digital twins and energy social networks.