GME Schedules MLT-Flex Local Flexibility Market Session for Unareti DSO on 22 October 2026

GME announced, pursuant to Article 23.2 of the Local Flexibility Market (MLF) Regulation, the operational details of an MLT-Flex trading session requested by DSO Unareti S.p.A., including exact timing for preliminary information release, bid submission window, and preliminary/final results publication.

This confirms the practical activation of Italy's local flexibility market mechanism (MLF/MLT-Flex) for a specific DSO-initiated procurement session, demonstrating the operational pathway by which distribution system operators can procure flexibility services through GME's market platform, a concrete step in the implementation of local flexibility markets in Italy.

This is an operational session notice rather than a design or policy change, but it is significant as evidence that the MLF/MLT-Flex framework is being actively used by DSOs (here Unareti) to run trading sessions under GME's established regulation. The precise sequencing—preliminary info day before, a defined 5-hour bidding window, and staged preliminary/final results contingent on DSO technical validation—illustrates the procedural maturity of the local flexibility market design and the DSO's central role in validating offers before final clearing. Each such session incrementally builds the operational track record of Italy's local flexibility market architecture.

Regolamento del Mercato locale della flessibilità (MLF), articolo 23, comma 23.2

Preliminary session information published · 21 Oct 2026

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