Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 13, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en13226085
Keywords
tariff design; congestions in distribution networks; reducing peaks caused by dynamic pricing; heat pumps and heat battery; pv and battery; social housing in Northern Ireland
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- European Union's INTERREG VA Programme [IVA5038]
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Decarbonisation of heat and transport will cause congestion issues in distribution networks. To avoid expensive network investments, demand flexibility is necessary to move loads from peak to off-peak periods. We provide a method and metric for assessing and selecting the optimal demand response strategy for a given network congestion scenario and applied it to a case study network in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. We proposed a Price Approximation/Mean Grouping strategy to deal with the issue of congestions occurring at the lowest-price period in real-time pricing schemes. The Mean Grouping strategy increased the average lowest-price hours from 1.32 to 3.76. We show that a three-cluster tariff is effective in solving medium congestion issues in Northern Ireland and could save consumers an average of 117 pound/year on their heating bill. However, for networks with low headroom suffering from serious congestion issues, a smart control strategy is needed.
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