Journal article
A review of demand side flexibility potential in Northern Europe
KTH Royal Institute of Technology1
Aalto University2
Tallinn University of Technology3
Norwegian University of Life Sciences4
Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark5
Systems Analysis, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark6
Riga Technical University7
The number of regional and national power systems with a high share of wind and solar power in the world is quickly increasing. The background for this development is improved technology, decreasing costs, and increased concern regarding environmental problems of competing technologies such as fossil fuels.
For the future there are large possibilities for increasing the renewable electricity share. However, variable renewable power production has to be balanced. Demand side flexibility offers an interesting approach to the balancing issues. The aim of this paper is to compare flexibility potentials and how they were estimated in seven Northern European countries in order to compare general challenges and results as well as the connection between used method and results.
The total flexibility is estimated to 12–23 GW in a system with a total peak load of 77 GW.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2018 |
| Pages: | 654-664 |
| ISSN: | 18790690 and 13640321 |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.rser.2018.03.104 |
| ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-3109-6952 , Katz, Jonas , Soysal, Emilie Rosenlund and Skytte, Klaus |
