Value of demand flexibility for providing ancillary services: A case for social housing in the Irish DS3 market

Osaru Agbonaye, Patrick Keatley, Ye Huang, Motasem Bani-Mustafa, Oluwasola O. Ademulegun and Neil Hewitt

Utilities Policy, 2020, vol. 67, issue C

Abstract: This paper evaluates the potential of consumer flexibility from a portfolio of heat loads, solar panels and batteries in Social Housing to provide ancillary services. We propose two new ancillary service products: Turn-Up-Demand (TUD) and Turn-Down-Demand (TDD). We ran simulations for a complete year. The buffer-tank scenario provided earnings of £146/year for an average consumer. Finally, we propose a new policy called the Vulnerable Consumer Priority in Administering System Services (VCPASS) and the use of Heat-as-a-Service (HaaS) to fund the replacement of oil-boilers with heat pumps in fuel poor homes with a rate of 9.99p/kWh of heat for a payback period of 15 years.

Keywords: Demand flexibility in social housing; Turn-up demand and turn-down demand; DS3 ancillary services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2020.101130

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