A novel tool for the evaluation and assessment of demand response activities in the industrial sector

Javier Rodríguez-García, Carlos Álvarez-Bel, José-Francisco Carbonell-Carretero, Manuel Alcázar-Ortega and Elisa Peñalvo-López

Energy, 2016, vol. 113, issue C, 1136-1146

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel tool for industrial customers to perform a cost-benefit analysis regarding the implementation of Demand Response (DR) strategies in their facilities with the final goal of softening the impact of RES intermittency in the grid. The dynamic simulation tool focuses on assessing the participation of industries in reserve energy markets in the same conditions as generators offering capacity reserve, energy reserve or both of them and taking into account all the technical restrictions of production processes as well as possible extra costs due to the implementation of DR (additional labour cost, productivity losses, etc.) Main innovations of the methodology are the DR assessment carried out per process and the introduction of the “margin of decision” as a decision making strategy for the energy consumer.

Keywords: Demand response; Renewable integration; Industrial production; End-user tool; Load management; Economic evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.07.146

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