Paper Info
Title
A comprehensive modelling framework for demand side flexibility in smart grids.
Abstract
The increasing share of renewable energy generation in the electricity system comes with significant challenges, such as the volatility of renewable energy sources. To tackle those challenges, demand side management is a frequently mentioned remedy. However, measures of demand side management need a high level of flexibility to be successful. Although extensive research exists that describes, models and optimises various processes with flexible electrical demands, there is no unified notation. Additionally, most descriptions are very process-specific and cannot be generalised. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive modelling framework to mathematically describe demand side flexibility in smart grids while integrating a majority of constraints from different existing models. We provide a universally applicable modelling framework for demand side flexibility and evaluate its practicality by looking at how well Mixed-Integer Linear Program solvers are able to optimise the resulting models, if applied to artificially generated instances. From the evaluation, we derive that our model improves the performance of previous models while integrating additional flexibility characteristics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s00450-017-0343-x
Computer Science - R&D
Keywords
Field
DocType
Demand side management, Flexibility scheduling, Process modelling, Smart grids
Notation,Renewable energy,Smart grid,Industrial engineering,Computer science,Electricity,Process modeling,Real-time computing,Linear programming,Volatility (finance),Management science
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
1-2
1865-2034
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.38
7
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukas Barth1245.73
Nicole Ludwig2133.14
Esther Mengelkamp3353.90
Philipp Staudt422.40