Information and registration Test Event Residential Flexibility

Why participate in the Test event?

  • Test your products and software with other vendors in a neutral, pre-competitive setting
  • Identify interoperability issues early and explore solutions together
  • Gain insight into how your assets behave in realistic residential flexibility scenarios
  • Help build a shared technical foundation for scalable residential flexibility in Europe

Qualifications for participation

The test events are open to all producers and manufacturers of equipment that is within scope: HEMS, either physical or via the cloud, and EV chargers, stationary batteries, solar inverters and heat pumps.

Participants are required to bring their own hardware to the event.

For the first event, there are no restrictions on which protocols your hardware uses. From the second event onwards, testing will be limited to EEbus, Matter, OCPP, S2 and OpenADR.

Please note: test outcomes will be kept confidential under a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and a test lab agreement.

ElaadNL - Simultaan testen in het Elaad Testlab

Registration for testing

Participation in this test event, and the following test events, is free of charge. This includes on-site catering but excludes any travel expenses. Each event will be accompanied by a conference. We hope to welcome you at the test event and look forward to testing residential flexibility together!

Register before January 30

Register now

Organisational details of the test event

  • Date: Thursday February 12 and Friday February 13, 2026
  • Location: Elaad Testlab in Arnhem, the Netherlands
  • Time: 9.30 hours on February 12 and estimated closure 14.00 hours on February 13

Prior to the test event, we ask you to share the details on the equipment you will bring, as well as your testing expectations. This can be done through the questionnaire on this page.

Round robin

Once registration is closed on January 30, ElaadNL will share a list of all equipment that will be available with all participants. This will be approximately one week in advance of the event and will include a test schedule (round robin) and a suggested order of tests per timeslot. We foresee 14 timeslots per event (7 per day). This is subject to change, depending on the wishes of the participants.

ElaadNL - Simultaan testen in het Elaad Testlab

Registration for testing

Participation in this test event and the following test events is free of charge. This includes on-site catering but excludes any travel expenses. Each event will be accompanied by a conference. We hope to welcome you at the test event and look forward to testing residential flexibility together!

Register before January 30

Register now