Energy community; Grid-charge regulation; Industrial microgrid; Linear optimization; Multi-energy; Asymmetric regulation; Charge regulation; Energy; Industrial energy; Microgrid; Multi energy; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Environmental Science (all); Strategy and Management; Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Abstract :
[en] The industrial sector is currently the leading emitter of greenhouse gases worldwide. Lowering emissions, the collaborative use of energy and storage technologies in Industrial Energy Communities (IEC) is a promising option, typically implemented as a grid-connected microgrid. To support successful implementations of IECs, it is essential to understand not only the interaction of different technical assets within an IEC but also the corresponding regulation that determines the IEC's economic and ecological performance. Similar to different technical capabilities of available assets, companies of an IEC are typically affected by regulation in different, asymmetric ways. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to investigate the economic and ecologic effects stemming from asymmetric regulation, i.e., regulation that differs between different participating companies via a microgrid approach. By developing a novel linear model for German asymmetric grid charge regulation, we are able to optimize the economic operation of complex multi-energy microgrids under detailed regulatory conditions. In more detail, we formulate and implement a mixed-integer linear program to investigate the joint operation of a multi-energy IEC under asymmetric regulation. We conduct a real-world case study to evaluate the effects of German grid-charge regulation as a significant example of asymmetric regulation and compare the results of our IEC to a situation where every company of the IEC manages its assets individually. Our results indicate that IECs have the potential to significantly reduce the total operational energy costs under the current asymmetric German grid-charge regulation. While the shared assets see a higher utilization in the IEC, the impact on emissions is, however, limited.
Research center :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > FINATRAX - Digital Financial Services and Cross-organizational Digital Transformations
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Dautzenberg, Alexander ; Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT, Augsburg, Germany ; FIM Research Center, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, An der Hochschule 1, Augsburg, Germany
Kaiser, Matthias; Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT, Augsburg, Germany ; FIM Research Center, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, An der Hochschule 1, Augsburg, Germany
WEIBELZAHL, Martin ; University of Luxembourg ; Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT, Augsburg, Germany
Weissflog, Jan; Branch Business & Information Systems Engineering of the Fraunhofer FIT, Augsburg, Germany ; FIM Research Center, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Industrial multi-energy communities as grid-connected microgrids: Understanding the role of asymmetric grid-charge regulation
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