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Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Elsa Merle

In this article, we use a spectral and statistical analysis of load fluctuations to calculate plausible conditions that an electricity mix of power sources must satisfy to fulfill a variable power demand on a territory. These criteria can be applied to ele ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2019

SCCER JA-RED - Detailed evaluation of the grid operation bottlenecks and load shifting potential for the reference system - Deliverable 1.2.2

Luc Girardin, Paul Michael Stadler, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Jordan Holweger, Luise Middelhauve

Based on the analysis of the reference case, models developed at the PVLAB-EPFL and IPESEEPFL have been valued and improved to assess the impact of distributed generation and ancillary services on REel demonstrator. The models are used to evaluate solution ...

2019

Power-to-fuels via solid-oxide electrolyzer: Operating window and techno-economics

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Tzu-En Lin

Power-to-fuel systems via solid-oxide electrolysis are promising for storing excess renewable electricity by efficient electrolysis of steam (or co-electrolysis of steam and CO2) into hydrogen (or syngas), which can be further converted into synthetic fuel ...

2019

Optimal Control Strategies of Seasonal Storage Devices for District Energy Management

Julien Jocelyn Leprince

The potential energy savings resulting from the cooperative management of community districts, also known as energy hubs, has been widely demonstrated throughout the literature. Various developed predictive control strategies have proven to generate remark ...

2018

Solar thermal and geothermal integration with low temperature CO 2 DENs

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Raluca-Ancuta Suciu

Taking into account the high efficiency of solar thermal collectors and the fact that heating demands represent around 80% of the total energy needs in residential buildings, it is of interest to integrate solar thermal systems to supply HVAC services. How ...

Elsevier2018

Experimental Demonstration of Buildings Providing Frequency Regulation Services in the Swiss Market

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi, Luca Fabietti

This paper investigates the potential of commercial buildings to offer ancillary services to the grid. We consider a tracking procurement inspired by secondary frequency control, where the resource needs to commit to a nominal consumption profile ahead of ...

2017

The Rise of Value Networks in the Power Sector: Reinventing Utilities

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

The triple transition—decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization—is rendering obsolete traditional power sector value chains. Value networks are emerging, which will significantly alter the power sector’s landscape and call into question the long ...

2017

Integrated System Design of a Small-scale Power-to-Methane Demonstrator

François Maréchal, Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Ligang Wang, Alberto Mian

Power-to-methane technology has been considered as a promising alternative to cope with seasonal storage of renewable energy and the utilization of CO2 captured from various sources, due to the existing infrastructure for massive methane storage and distri ...

2017

A Power System Decarbonisation Monitor for Renewables Policy Adaptation

Many countries rely on high levels of generation from Variable Renewable Energies (VREs) to decarbonise their power systems. However, scaling up VREs beyond a certain threshold generates new challenges in the already complex electricity system and renewabl ...

2016

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