Operational Flexibility of Small-Scale Electricity-Coupled Heat Generating Units
- Heat generation that is coupled with electricity usage, like combined heat and power generators or heat pumps, can provide operational flexibility to the electricity sector. In order to make use of this in an optimized way, the flexibility that can be provided by such plants needs to be properly quantified. This paper proposes a method for quantifying the flexibility provided through a cluster ofHeat generation that is coupled with electricity usage, like combined heat and power generators or heat pumps, can provide operational flexibility to the electricity sector. In order to make use of this in an optimized way, the flexibility that can be provided by such plants needs to be properly quantified. This paper proposes a method for quantifying the flexibility provided through a cluster of such heat generators. It takes into account minimum operational time and minimum down-time of heat generating units. Flexibility is defined here as the time period over which plant operation can be either delayed or forced into operation, thus providing upward or downward regulation to the power system on demand. Results for one case study show that a cluster of several smaller heat generation units does not provide much more delayed operation flexibility than one large unit with the same power, while it more than doubles the forced operation flexibility. Considering minimum operational time and minimum down-time of the units considerably limits the available forced and delayed operation flexibility, especially in the case of one large unit.…
Document Type: | Article (reviewed) |
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Zitierlink: | https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/5686 | Bibliografische Angaben |
Title (English): | Operational Flexibility of Small-Scale Electricity-Coupled Heat Generating Units |
Author: | Anke Weidlich![]() ![]() |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 16 |
Article Number: | 8 |
Parent Title (English): | Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 1 |
ISSN: | 2199-4706 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s40866-019-0064-2 |
Language: | English | Inhaltliche Informationen |
Institutes: | Forschung / INES - Institut für nachhaltige Energiesysteme |
Collections of the Offenburg University: | Bibliografie |
Tag: | Combined heat and power generation; Electricity-coupled heat generation; Heat pumps; Operational flexibility; Smart grid; Virtual power plants | Formale Angaben |
Open Access: | Closed Access |