The electricity markets are changing and there is no going back to the old normal. The current situation has expedited the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables, where from the Finnish perspective wind power will be the key to decarbonizing our energy system. As with almost all renewables, they are intermittent and require balancing power to keep the grid functional. It is easy to think that balancing power always needs to be additional generation, but the demand response can be achieved either by additional generation or by dropping demand off the grid. For utilities and large consumers, this is already a common practice but in the future, households are also required to be active participants in the electricity market, which might provide significant savings or even some extra revenue. All this will require a significant amount of new smart technology that is required to be seamlessly integrated and controlled. In this seminar, we will discuss the different approaches to mitigate the intermittency with real-world examples from utilities, innovative market approaches from universities, and how these approaches could be scaled down to the household level.