Flexibility Reserve of Self-Consumption Optimized Energy Systems in the Household Sector

Elias Dörre,Alexander Dreher,Pedro Girón,Svenja Heising,Kay Wiedemann,Sebastian Pfaffel

doi:10.3390/en14113017

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Energy generation and consumption in the power grid must be balanced at every single moment. Within the synchronous area of continental Europe, flexible generators and loads can provide Frequency Containment Reserve and Frequency Restoration Reserve marketed through the balancing markets. The Transmission System Operators use these flexibilities to maintain or restore the grid frequency when there are deviations. This paper shows the future flexibility potential of Germany’s household sector, in particular for single-family and twin homes in 2025 and 2030 with the assumption that households primarily optimize their self-consumption. The primary focus is directed to the flexibility potential of Electric Vehicles, Heat Pumps, Photovoltaics and Battery Storage Systems. A total of 10 different household system configurations were considered and combined in a weighted average based on the scenario framework of the German Grid Development Plan. The household generation, consumption and storage units were simulated in a mixed-integer linear programming model to create the time series for the self-consumption optimized households. This solved the unit commitment problem for each of the decentralized households in their individual configurations. Finally, the individual household flexibilities were evaluated and then aggregated to a Germany-wide flexibility profile for single-family and twin homes. The results indicate that the household sector can contribute significantly to system stabilization with an average potential of 30 GW negative and 3 GW positive flexibility in 2025. In 2030, the corresponding flexibilities potentially increase to 90 GW and 30 GW, respectively. This underlines that considerable flexibility reserves could be provided by single-family and twin homes in the future.

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The transition of the energy and transportation sectors toward a higher share of renewable energies leads to a growing number of volatile electricity producers
The aim of this paper and the conducted study is to quantify the flexibility that the microsystems in single-family and twin homes could provide when participating in the German flexibility markets for Manual Frequency Restoration Reserve and Automatic Frequency
The average positive and negative household flexibilities were derived through a weighted aggregation of system combinations, load profiles, and locations

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The transition of the energy and transportation sectors toward a higher share of renewable energies leads to a growing number of volatile electricity producers. This forces the Transmission System Operators (TSOs) to frequently make use of flexibility reserves. This leads to an increasing number of flexible producers and consumers in the household sector (summarized under the term “microsystems”). Restoration Reserves (aFRR) in different scenarios for the years 2025 and 2030. For this purpose, the individual flexibility potentials of the microsystems Photovoltaic (PV), Battery. The flexibility profiles are analogous to standard load profiles (SLPs) [1] and depend on the season and the day of the week

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