Heat demand peak shaving in urban integrated energy systems by demand side management - A techno-economic and environmental approachShow others and affiliations
2019 (English)In: Energy, ISSN 0360-5442, E-ISSN 1873-6785, Vol. 186, article id 115887Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The integration of variable renewable resources and decentralized energy technologies generates the need for a larger flexibility of the energy demand. In order to fully deploy a demand side management approach, synergies between interconnected energy systems have to be systematically implemented. By taking this standpoint, this study proposes a new approach to explore the potential of multi-energy integrated energy systems. This approach is constituted by two main steps, which are (1) the performance simulation of selected energy infrastructures and (2) the estimation of related techno-economic performance indicators. Step (1) expands the work presented in previous literature, by including a novel co-simulation feature. In step (2), the levelized cost of energy and location-dependent emission factors are used as key performance indicators. In this paper, the presented approach is demonstrated by implementing two demand side management options for heat peak demand shaving. A Swedish residential neighborhood is considered as a case study. The first option explores the potential of storing heat in the thermal mass of residential buildings. The proposed strategies lead to a decrease of up to 70% of primary energy consumption, depending on the indoor comfort requirements. The second option estimates the techno-economic feasibility of a new set of scenarios based on the integration of geothermal distributed heat pumps within a district heating network. The district heating scenario is found to be the most techno-economical convenient. Nevertheless, a moderate penetration of distributed heat pumps (around 20%) is shown to have a good trade-off with the reduction of CO2 emissions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2019. Vol. 186, article id 115887
Keywords [en]
Cities, Co-simulation, Demand side management, Heat pumps, Integrated energy systems, Peak shavings, Techno-economic, Thermal mass, Benchmarking, District heating, Economic analysis, Economic and social effects, Energy utilization, Geothermal energy, Heat pump systems, Housing, Pumps, Cosimulation, Peak shaving, Techno-economics, Energy management systems, demand analysis, demand-side management, economic conditions, heating, integrated approach, neighborhood, pump, renewable resource, simulated annealing, simulation, thermal power, trade-off, urban area
National Category
Energy Systems
Research subject
Energy Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263517DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.115887ISI: 000492797300071Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85070271109OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-263517DiVA, id: diva2:1374281
Note
QC 20191130
2019-11-292019-11-292022-06-26Bibliographically approved
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