Title
Demand response in blocks of buildings: opportunities and requirements
Abstract
Increased Demand Response (DR) is essential to fully exploit European power systems, which in turn is an absolute prerequisite for meeting European targets related to energy efficiency and climate change. Essentially DR involves consumers reducing or shifting their electricity usage during periods of peak electricity demand in response to time-based tariffs or other forms of financial incentives. The opportunities for realising demand response vary across Europe as they are dependent on the particular regulatory, market and technical contexts in different European counties. Nevertheless successful DR programs are becoming increasingly common for large industrial customers. However DR programs aimed at small and medium scale customers have mostly failed to meet their expected potential. Blocks of buildings offer more flexibility in the timing of energy use, local energy generation and energy storage than single buildings and as such researchers and the energy industry are beginning to consider how blocks of buildings can operate collectively within energy networks to enhance the effectiveness of DR programs. This paper identifies the opportunities and technical, market and regulatory requirements for realising DR services in blocks of buildings in the European context. The work presented is part of an ongoing European Horizon 2020 project entitled Demand Response in Blocks of Buildings.
Keywords
Demand Response (DR), block of buildings, electricity systems, Electric Utilities, Energy networks
JEL classifications
P18 , L94 , L90 , L98
URI
http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/104
DOI
Pages
271-281
Funding
The work presented was carried out as part of the DR BOB project (01/03/16 - 28/02/19) which is co-funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation under grant agreement No 696114. The authors wish to acknowledge the European Commission for their support, the efforts of the project partners, and the contributions of all those involved in DR-BOB.This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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