A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power System
Integrating ever-increasing amounts of variable renewable energy (VRE) into the power system could benefit from harnessing widespread residential demand-side management. This paper presents case studies on the potential benefits of power-to-heat (P2H) flexibility and energy efficiency improvements i...
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| description | Integrating ever-increasing amounts of variable renewable energy (VRE) into the power system could benefit from harnessing widespread residential demand-side management. This paper presents case studies on the potential benefits of power-to-heat (P2H) flexibility and energy efficiency improvements in a hypothetical future Finnish detached housing stock in the year 2030, both as a part of the larger Nordic power system and in an isolated Finnish power system. The housing stock was depicted using two archetype houses modeled using a simple lumped capacitance approach, integrally optimized as a part of a stochastic linear programming unit commitment model of the power system. With sufficient amounts of VRE, residential P2H with thermal storage was found to yield more system cost savings than simple energy efficiency improvements. However, energy efficiency improvements remained more beneficial for house owners, as excessive use of residential P2H for assisting the power system could result in increased heating costs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fc3eea6ee9be4685bbc20028257815a42022-12-22T02:53:14ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732018-12-01121510.3390/en12010005en12010005A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power SystemTopi Rasku0Juha Kiviluoma1VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., FI-02044 VTT Espoo, FinlandVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., FI-02044 VTT Espoo, FinlandIntegrating ever-increasing amounts of variable renewable energy (VRE) into the power system could benefit from harnessing widespread residential demand-side management. This paper presents case studies on the potential benefits of power-to-heat (P2H) flexibility and energy efficiency improvements in a hypothetical future Finnish detached housing stock in the year 2030, both as a part of the larger Nordic power system and in an isolated Finnish power system. The housing stock was depicted using two archetype houses modeled using a simple lumped capacitance approach, integrally optimized as a part of a stochastic linear programming unit commitment model of the power system. With sufficient amounts of VRE, residential P2H with thermal storage was found to yield more system cost savings than simple energy efficiency improvements. However, energy efficiency improvements remained more beneficial for house owners, as excessive use of residential P2H for assisting the power system could result in increased heating costs.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/1/5demand-side managementdemand responseenergy efficiencypower-to-heatelectric heating systemsrenewable energy integration |
| spellingShingle | Topi Rasku Juha Kiviluoma A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power System Energies demand-side management demand response energy efficiency power-to-heat electric heating systems renewable energy integration |
| title | A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power System |
| title_full | A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power System |
| title_fullStr | A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power System |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power System |
| title_short | A Comparison of Widespread Flexible Residential Electric Heating and Energy Efficiency in a Future Nordic Power System |
| title_sort | comparison of widespread flexible residential electric heating and energy efficiency in a future nordic power system |
| topic | demand-side management demand response energy efficiency power-to-heat electric heating systems renewable energy integration |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/1/5 |
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