Value of decentralized flexibility

Client: ZVEI
Neon team: Lion Hirth, Jonathan Mühlenpfordt
Published: 2024

Small-scale flexibility from EVs, heat pumps, and home batteries is widely acknowledged as a core ingredient of future energy systems, but scale-up is sluggish. For the industry association ZVEI, we quantified the system value of flexible operation with a numerical Python model: smart operation of a heat pump cuts system costs by 24%, smart EV charging by more than 70%, while classic self-consumption optimization of home batteries yields almost no system benefit. Market-driven flexibility currently tends to relieve rather than burden distribution grids. We also developed market design and regulatory reform options. This report was originally published in German.

Dr. Anselm Eicke
eicke@neon.energy
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