Demand Flexibility Management in Electrical Grids
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Smart Grids and Microgrids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 41
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Demand Flexibility Management (DFM), i.e., managing the energy demand from consumers so as to better match it with needs for energy flexibility and reduce real-time energy production/acquisition/balancing costs, has been a popular research area in the last decade. DFM may include the short/mid-term demand response (DR) and/or automated management of flexible assets, i.e., smart appliances, batteries, etc. Several DR programs have been proposed; such programs may involve monetary incentives or not, and may be automated or require specific action on behalf of the consumers. Besides matching the demand with supply, aggregate, implicit (price-based), or explicit (incentive-based) DR may enable flexibility offers to be traded in various energy markets (wholesale, balancing, auxiliary services, and reserves). In the presence of prosumers with renewable energy sources and/or storage capabilities, DR programs can enable them to provide balancing power. Moreover, apart from DFM, DR mechanisms may enable a number of different services, such as virtual power plants (VPPs), energy management for prosumers, and energy cooperatives/communities or buildings, among others. Energy-efficiency (EE) measures are also enabled by means of several engagement mechanisms, including awareness campaigns, gamification approaches, the subsidization of equipment, regulation, etc. Cross-sector energy flexibility procurement, e.g., between district heating and electricity, are also envisioned. However, the effectiveness of DFM approaches in practice may be hindered by a number of factors, such as low customer demand elasticity, high investment costs, user privacy issues, inadequate user-attention or participation (e.g., due to low incentives), discomfort, a low understanding of user priorities/requirements/context, and DR acceptance uncertainty. Dealing with these weaknesses and maximizing the effectiveness and the business viability of different DFM mechanisms are also of high importance for this Special Issue.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Innovative DFM mechanisms;
- Innovative DR programs;
- Automated flexibility management;
- Automated DR;
- Flexible Asset Models;
- Behavioral drivers for flexibility provision;
- Personalization (targeting) of DR signals;
- Serious games for energy efficiency;
- DR acceptance uncertainty;
- Contextual DR signals;
- Incentive mechanisms in demand-side flexibility management;
- Business models for DFM;
- Techno-economic analysis of DFM mechanisms;
- Load profiling for DFM;
- DSM for energy flexibility;
- DR for energy cooperatives/communities of prosumers/consumers;
- DR for PHEV/VPP/aggregator energy management optimization;
- DR acceptance uncertainty;
- Privacy-aware DFM;
- Engagement mechanisms for DFM;
- Cross-sector energy DFM management.
Dr. Thanasis Papaioannou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reserve and balancing power services
- automated flexibility management
- explicit/implicit DR
- flexible assets
- cross-sector energy flexibility
