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Governance design for household participation in the energy system

Pelka, S. (author)

The potential of households to adapt their energy use to the conditions of the energy system remains largely untapped due to shortcomings in consumer governance (i.e., the organization of household energy use). A lack of price signals and services leads to uncoordinated household energy use. Various proposals exist for updating consumer...

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Can behavioral interventions optimize self-consumption? Evidence from a field experiment with prosumers in Germany

Pelka, S. (author), Kesselring, Anne (author), Preuß, Sabine (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), De Vries, Laurens (author)

Aligning prosumers' electricity consumption to the availability of self-generated electricity decreases CO₂ emissions and costs. Nudges are proposed as one behavioral intervention to orchestrate such changes. At the same time, fragmented findings in the literature make it challenging to identify suitable behavioral interventions...

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One service fits all? Insights on demand response dilemmas of differently equipped households in Germany

Pelka, S. (author), Preuß, Sabine (author), Stute, Judith (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), De Vries, Laurens (author)

Households equipped with flexible technologies, such as electric vehicles, can support the energy transition by shifting electricity consumption to times of high renewable supply and by preventing consumption peaks that cannot be covered by existing grid and generation infrastructure. Demand response services support households in performing...

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Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of demand response in district heating and cooling systems. From passive customers to valuable assets

Marszal-Pomianowska, Anna (author), Motoasca, Emilia (author), Pothof, I.W.M. (author), Felsmann, Clemens (author), Heiselberg, Per (author), Cadenbach, Anna (author), Leusbrock, Ingo (author), O'Donovan, Keith (author), Petersen, Steffen (author), Schaffer, Markus (author)

Buildings can deliver short-term thermal energy storage by utilising the thermal capacity of the building construction and/or by activating the water tanks included in the heating/cooling installation. The flexibility potential of demand management using decentralized thermal energy storage has been quantified in many theoretical modelling...

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Population games with replicator dynamics under event-triggered payoff provider and a demand response application

Martinez-Piazuelo, Juan (author), Ananduta, W. (author), Ocampo-Martinez, Carlos (author), Grammatico, S. (author), Quijano, Nicanor (author)

We consider a large population of decision makers that choose their evolutionary strategies based on simple pairwise imitation rules. We describe such a dynamic process by the replicator dynamics. Differently from the available literature, where the payoffs signals are assumed to be updated continuously, we consider a more realistic scenario...

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Influence of hydrogen on grid investments for smart microgrids

Bartels, Emiel Aurelius (author), Pippia, T.M. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)

Electrification of the heat network in buildings together with a rise in popularity of Electric Vehicles (EVs) will result in a need to make investments in the electrical energy infrastructure in order to prevent congestion. This paper discusses the influence of hydrogen in future smart microgrids on these investments. Moreover, smart control...

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Participation of active consumers in the electricity system: Design choices for consumer governance

Pelka, S. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Klobasa, M. (author), De Vries, Laurens (author)

Household electricity use has an increasing impact on the overall energy system. Numerous proposals have been made to support households to consume electricity in a system-friendlier manner. By breaking these proposals down into functions and how they are performed, this paper identifies four distinctive governance designs: energy communities,...

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Aggregator's business models in residential and service sectors: A review of operational and financial aspects

Okur, Ö. (author), Heijnen, P.W. (author), Lukszo, Z. (author)

Flexibility coming from consumers in residential and service sectors has received significant attention to deal with uncertainty and variability of renewable energy sources. Since these consumers are too small individually to participate in the electricity markets, their assets can be pooled by an aggregator. The aggregator can implement...

review 2021

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Demand response: For congestion management or for grid balancing?

Stawska, A.M. (author), Lane, N.R. (author), de Weerdt, M.M. (author), Verzijlbergh, R.A. (author)

The growing capacity of intermittent energy sources causes more frequent system imbalances as well as congestion. Demand flexibility is a valuable resource that can be used to resolve these. Unfortunately, flexibility can also contribute to congestion, particularly when used to balance the grid. Using flexibility to solve grid problems...

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A Co-simulation Framework for the Provision of Support Services by Smart Residential Users in LV Distribution Systems

Vergara Barrios, P.P. (author), Subramanian, Arun (author), Van Der Veen, Aliene (author), Kok, Koen (author)

In this paper, a co-simulation framework is presented to assess the impact on the distribution network of provision of support services (i.e. voltage support) by smart residential users. Such users are capable of providing flexibility by increasing/decreasing generation/consumption controlling the operation of an available set of flexible...

conference paper 2021

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Environomic-Based Social Demand Response in Cyber-Physical-Social Power Systems

Valinejad, Jaber (author), Mili, Lamine (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author), Xu, Yijun (author)

According to the Department of Energy, demand response provides an opportunity for end-users to play a significant role in the efficiency, reliability, resilience, and sustainability of a power grid. This is made possible owing to the existence of storage devices and diversity of energy sources at the customer level and the advent of the...

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Optimal Control Strategies for Seasonal Thermal Energy Storage Systems with Market Interaction

Lago, Jesus (author), Suryanarayana, Gowri (author), Sogancioglu, Ecem (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)

Seasonal thermal energy storage systems (STESSs) can shift the delivery of renewable energy sources and mitigate their uncertainty problems. However, to maximize the operational profit of STESSs and ensure their long-term profitability, control strategies that allow them to trade on wholesale electricity markets are required. While control...

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Data-driven modelling of energy demand response behaviour based on a large-scale residential trial

Antonopoulos, Ioannis (author), Robu, Valentin (author), Couraud, Benoit (author), Flynn, David (author)

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in Demand Response (DR), as a means to satisfy the growing flexibility needs of modern power grids. This increased flexibility is required due to the growing proportion of intermittent renewable energy generation into the energy mix, and increasing complexity in demand profiles from the...

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Distributed coordination of deferrable loads: A real-time market with self-fulfilling forecasts

Abdelghany, H.A.M.F. (author), Tindemans, Simon H. (author), de Weerdt, M.M. (author), la Poutré, J.A. (author)

Increased uptake of variable renewable generation and further electrification of energy demand necessitate efficient coordination of flexible demand resources to make most efficient use of power system assets. Flexible electrical loads are typically small, numerous, heterogeneous and owned by self-interested agents. Considering the multi...

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Policy challenges for the development of energy flexibility services

Mlecnik, E. (author), Parker, James (author), Ma, Zheng (author), Corchero, Cristina (author), Knotzer, Armin (author), Pernetti, Roberta (author)

European energy policies call for an increased share of renewable energy sources and a more active role of the energy consumer. This is facilitated by, amongst others, buildings becoming energy flexible hubs, supporting smart energy grids with demand response strategies. While there is abundant technical research in this field, the related...

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Rethinking European energy taxation to incentivise consumer demand response participation

Voulis, N. (author), van Etten, Max (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)

The European Union considers demand response to be an integral part of its future energy vision, in particular as a supporting mechanism for renewable resource integration. To achieve high demand response participation, the European Union recognises the need for adequate financial incentives for all consumers, especially for residential and...

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Aggregator-mediated demand response: Minimizing imbalances caused by uncertainty of solar generation

Okur, Ö. (author), Voulis, N. (author), Heijnen, P.W. (author), Lukszo, Z. (author)

The high level of uncertainty of renewable energy sources generation creates differences between electricity supply and demand, endangering the reliable operation of the power system. Demand response has gained significant attention as a means to cope with uncertainty of renewable energy sources. Demand response of residential and service...

journal article 2019

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Energy retrofitting effects on the energy flexibility of dwellings

Mancini, Francesco (author), Nastasi, B. (author)

Electrification of the built environment is foreseen as a main driver for energy transition for more effective, electric renewable capacity firming. Direct and on-time use of electricity is the best way to integrate them, but the current energy demand of residential building stock is often mainly fuel-based. Switching from fuel to electric...

journal article 2019

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Forecast-based mechanisms for demand response

Methenitis, G. (author), Kaisers, Michael (author), la Poutré, J.A. (author)

We study mechanisms to incentivize demand response in smart energy systems. We assume agents that can respond (reduce their demand) with some probability if they prepare prior to the real-ization of the demand. Both preparation and response incur costs to agents. Previous work studies truthful mechanisms that select a minimal set of agents to...

conference paper 2019

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Hierarchical energy management of microgrids including storage and demand response

Fan, Songli (author), Ai, Qian (author), Piao, L. (author)

Battery energy storage (BES) and demand response (DR) are considered to be promising technologies to cope with the uncertainty of renewable energy sources (RES) and the load in the microgrid (MG). Considering the distinct prediction accuracies of the RES and load at different timescales, it is essential to incorporate the multi-timescale...

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