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Value of decentralized flexibility<\/h2>\n

Client: ZVEI
\nNeon team: Lion Hirth, Jonathan M\u00fchlenpfordt
\nPublished: 2024<\/p>\n

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.
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\nDr. Anselm Eicke
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