Exploiting Power-to-Heat Assets in District Heating Networks to Regulate Electric Power Network

New green energy policies are encouraging district heating (DH) companies to exploit heat production by power-to-heat (P2H) assets, e.g., heat pumps (HPs) and electric boilers (EBs). Therefore, they are shifting to exploit these assets in their distribution network besides the traditional central co...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on smart grid 2021-05, Vol.12 (3), p.2048-2059
Main Authors: Khatibi, Mahmood, Bendtsen, Jan Dimon, Stoustrup, Jakob, Molbak, Tommy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boilers
Clean energy
Cogeneration
Companies
Complexity
Costs
District heating
District heating systems
Economic analysis
Economic models
Electric power
Electric power grids
Electricity distribution
EMPC
Heat pumps
Heating systems
Optimization
Power consumption
power regulation
power-to-heat assets
Predictive control
Production
Reserve capacity
Resistance heating
Smart grid
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Summary:New green energy policies are encouraging district heating (DH) companies to exploit heat production by power-to-heat (P2H) assets, e.g., heat pumps (HPs) and electric boilers (EBs). Therefore, they are shifting to exploit these assets in their distribution network besides the traditional central combined heat and power (CHP) units in their production chain. It will lead to an increasingly complex interaction between DH networks and electricity markets. This article proposes an economic model predictive control (EMPC) framework to investigate how DH companies can manage this extra complexity and if they can contribute in an efficient way towards balancing the production and consumption of electric power in smart grids through playing in the reserve capacity markets. The framework is applied to a real world case study and the results are discussed. The results show the new paradigm increases operation costs. However, reserving a part of the capacity for playing in reserve capacity market will not only make up for the extra costs to some extent, but also improve the capability of providing regulating power.
ISSN:1949-3053
1949-3061
DOI:10.1109/TSG.2020.3044348