Batteries play a pivotal role in complementing electricity generation from renewable energy sources, especially photovoltaics. Currently, investors applied for grid connections of more than 500 GW in Germany alone. However, batteries can change their output on short notice. While this provides needed flexibility to the system, it makes system operations, in particular congestion management and...
Motivation: Electric vehicles (EVs) are crucial for providing flexibility in future electricity systems, complementing renewable power generation. However, aggregators face economic obstacles in tapping into this flexibility potential. The lack of EV user-centered contract design hinders the widespread adoption of EV-based flexibility, leading to missed opportunities for reducing greenhouse...
Introduction
Grid expansion is one major cost item in the ongoing energy transition as the electrification of the heating and mobility sector as well as the feed-in of variable renewables into the grid leads to much higher peak loads. Grid friendly electricity exchange on the district level helps to stabilize the overall energy system and reduce this necessary grid expansion. But to stimulate...
