Optimising self-consumption
Benefits include:
Household flexibility & demand response
Self-consumption
Develop and utilise Customer Energy Manager (CEM) and corresponding Resource Manager (RM) to carefully balance consumption with PV generation. Sources of flexibility for optimising self-consumption are heat pump’s storage boilers and household specific thermal capacity. Flexibility from white goods is utilised where available, designing and evaluating the corresponding RMs.
Network tariffs
Extend and utilise CEM and corresponding RMs to adapt consumption in combination with production to minimise costs regarding network tariffs. Price-optimise network tariff consumption with regards to self-consumption.
Implicit Demand Response
Use flexibility available through CEM and RMs to shift household loads at times of high consumption and high production. Develop and utilise aggregated flexibility services on a mixture of high thermal consumers with and without installed PVs to improve network-wise utilisation of renewables and to lower peak consumption.