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AKE: Arbeitskreis Energie

AKE 14: System Aspekte und Modellierung

AKE 14.1: Talk

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 17:30–17:45, DO24 Reuter Saal

Demand Side Management and the Potential of Power to Heat for Balancing Fluctuating Production from Renewable Energy Sources — •David Kleinhans — NEXT ENERGY - EWE-Forschungszentrum für Energietechnologie an der Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 15, DE-26129 Oldenburg

Environmental issues and limitations in the availability of resources necessitate an increased degree of sustainability for future power systems. In fact the availability of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) could be shown to be sufficient for a transformation of energy system towards a production based almost entirely on RES. One of the major conceptual drawbacks, however, are spatio-temporal fluctuations in the availability of the main resources, wind and solar power.

This contribution addresses the role of demand side management in future power systems. In particular, the potential for demand side management is investigated and discussed with respect to its storage-equivalent characteristics. Based on the evaluation of simulation data it is investigated, to which extend demand side management can contribute to an integration of fluctuating RES. A particular field of applications for demand side management is the heating and cooling sector with its rather high share in energy consumption and the availability of efficient storage devices. For this reason a particular focus is on the potential for a renaissance of power to heat technologies and economical aspects of their integration and operation.