Comparison of the Effects of Industrial Demand Side Management and Other Flexibilities on the Performance of the Energy System

Arjuna Nebel, Christine Krüger, Tomke Janßen, Mathieu Saurat, Sebastian Kiefer and Karin Arnold
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Arjuna Nebel: Division Future Energy and Industry Systems, Wuppertal Institute, Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Christine Krüger: Division Future Energy and Industry Systems, Wuppertal Institute, Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Tomke Janßen: Division Future Energy and Industry Systems, Wuppertal Institute, Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Mathieu Saurat: Division Future Energy and Industry Systems, Wuppertal Institute, Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Sebastian Kiefer: Division Future Energy and Industry Systems, Wuppertal Institute, Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany
Karin Arnold: Division Future Energy and Industry Systems, Wuppertal Institute, Döppersberg 19, 42103 Wuppertal, Germany

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 17, 1-20

Abstract: In order to ensure security of supply in a future energy system with a high share of volatile electricity generation, flexibility technologies are needed. Industrial demand-side management ranks as one of the most efficient flexibility options. This paper analyses the effect of the integration of industrial demand-side management through the flexibilisation of aluminium electrolysis and other flexibilities of the electricity system and adjacent sectors. The additional flexibility options include electricity storage, heat storage in district heating networks, controlled charging of electric vehicles, and buffer storage in hydrogen electrolysis. The utilisation of the flexibilities is modelled in different settings with an increasing share of renewable energies, applying a dispatch model. This paper compares which contributions the different flexibilities can make to emission reduction, avoidance of curtailment, and reduction of fuel and CO 2 costs, and which circumstances contribute to a decrease or increase of overall emissions with additional flexibilities. The analysis stresses the rising importance of flexibilities in an energy system based on increasing shares of renewable electricity generation, and shows that flexibilities are generally suited to reduce carbon emissions. It is presented that the relative contribution towards the reduction of curtailment and costs of flexibilisation of aluminium electrolysis are high, whereby the absolute effect is small compared to the other options due to the limited number of available processes.

Keywords: demand-side management; demand response; storage; heat storage; flexibility; sector coupling; renewable energy system; dispatch (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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