Abstract

Residential flexibility (a.k.a demand response) is a key component of smart grids to reduce our carbon footprint, to have reliable power (balance between power and demand, and avoiding congestion) and more affordable electricity tariffs. However, to have a significant participation in the flexibility markets, households needs good price signals. Today, the electricity bill components (volumetric and capacity for both consumption and generation) are evolving and grid services are increasingly more available to households. This is due to the evolution in the energy mix, deployment of new technologies (smart meter roll-out, gradual uptake of electric vehicles, heat pumps and batteries), regional integration (interconnectors and integration of balancing markets) and evolution of society (sharing economy or Peer2peer and ubiquity of smartphones). These trends will have a quantitative impact on the different energy bills in the short term (2020) and longer term. Further investigation is also suggested to go from the qualitative analysis to a better quantitative analysis.

Highlights

  • Tariffs as studied in the Mas2tering (Multi-Agent Systems and Secured coupling of Telecom and Energy gRIds for Generation smart grid services) project, must correctly balance a complex set of interests in the electrical grid

  • Tariffs favouring residential photovoltaics (PV) self-consumption are becoming more widespread

  • This paper explains on one hand the bill components for residential customers and their importance for flexibility and the other hand the trends in their evolution are highlighted

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Summary

Introduction

Tariffs as studied in the Mas2tering (Multi-Agent Systems and Secured coupling of Telecom and Energy gRIds for Generation smart grid services) project, must correctly balance a complex set of interests in the electrical grid. Suppliers generating electricity must be fairly compensated for energy produced, distributors who are typically regulated must be fairly compensated for the service they provide and to have adequate funds for the maintenance and expansion where necessary of the distribution grid, and consumers/prosumers should have access to the grid in a fair way for both consumption and production. For this reason, electricity tariffs are composed of various components which seek to fairly balance these aspects. Proceedings 2017, 1, 1104 earlier advanced metering infrastructure deployments) and Distribution System/Network Operators (e.g., Eurelectric papers) [1–5]

Drivers for Electricity Tariffs Evolution
Likelihood of Different Evolutions
Grid Balancing to Alleviate Congestion
Challenges for the Evolution of DR Tariffs
Findings
Conclusions
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