Increasing the efficiency of local energy markets through residential demand response

Energy Informatics

Christof Weinhardt¹  Bastian Hoffmann¹  Enrique Kremers¹  Jan Eberbach¹  Esther Mengelkamp²  Samrat Bose² 

[1] European Institute for Energy Research, Karlsruhe, Germany;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

关键词: Demand response;    Local energy market;    Reinforcement learning;    Agent-based simulation;    Peer-to-peer trading;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s42162-018-0017-3

学科分类：计算机网络和通讯

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Local energy markets (LEMs) aim at building up local balances of generation and demand close to real time. A bottom-up energy system made up of several LEMs could reduce energy transmission, renewable curtailment and redispatch measures in the long-term, if managed properly. However, relying on limited local resources, LEMs require flexibility to achieve a high level of self-sufficiency. We introduce demand response (DR) into LEMs as a means of flexibility in residential demand that can be used to increase local self-sufficiency, decrease residual demand power peaks, facilitate local energy balances and reduce the cost of energy supply. We present a simulation study on a 100 household LEM and show how local sufficiency can be increased up to 16% with local trading and DR. We study three German regulatory scenarios and derive that the electricity price and the annual residual peak demand can be reduced by up to 10c€/kWh and 40%.

【 授权许可】

CC BY