TY - GEN
T1 - Techno-economic assessment of community energy solutions to network capacity issues
AU - Good, Nicholas
AU - Mancarella, Pierluigi
AU - Lintern, Kerry
PY - 2017/7/20
Y1 - 2017/7/20
N2 - This paper presents a flexible, multi-energy district/community optimization model which can consider multiple energy service demands (hot water, base electricity, space heating/cooling), thermal and electrical energy storage, and solar photo-voltaic generation. The formulation can model various levels of virtual and physical aggregation and accommodate various different pricing structures (on energy and capacity). The model is used to demonstrate how thermal and electrical storage can alleviate network constraints, and how various commercial arrangements for relieving these constraints are effective under different aggregation options. Peak demand, annual cash flow (by component) and measures of energy independence are presented as assessment metrics.
AB - This paper presents a flexible, multi-energy district/community optimization model which can consider multiple energy service demands (hot water, base electricity, space heating/cooling), thermal and electrical energy storage, and solar photo-voltaic generation. The formulation can model various levels of virtual and physical aggregation and accommodate various different pricing structures (on energy and capacity). The model is used to demonstrate how thermal and electrical storage can alleviate network constraints, and how various commercial arrangements for relieving these constraints are effective under different aggregation options. Peak demand, annual cash flow (by component) and measures of energy independence are presented as assessment metrics.
KW - Smart districts
KW - aggregation
KW - optimization
KW - flexibility
KW - energy independence
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85034767264
U2 - 10.1109/PTC.2017.7980906
DO - 10.1109/PTC.2017.7980906
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - PowerTech, 2017 IEEE Manchester
ER -