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Flexible industrial processes: a valuable tool to accommodate big scale variable renewables. Assessment of additional wind power integration by industrial demand side management

Panel: 4. Undertaking high impact actions: The role of technology and systems optimisation

Authors:
Hans De Keulenaer, European Copper Institute, Belgium
Fernando Nuno, Copper Alliance, Spain
Joachim Käufler, Synlift Systems GmbH, Germany
Robert Pohl, Synlift Systems GmbH, Germany
Simone Deiringer, Synlift Systems GmbH, Germany

Abstract

The progressive penetration of variable renewables in the European electricity landscape requires, together with the upgrade of transmission networks, the development of flexibility means to match generation and demand. Given the limited capacity to store electricity at big scale, a massive deployment of demand side response will be required in the years to come. Industry accounts for one third of the EU electricity consumption. Deploying its DSM potential would unlock significant amounts of valuable balancing resources.

The development of industrial DSM requires a proper economic valorization of the flexibility. A number of avenues can be considered: integration of on-site wind power, integration of off-site wind power, adapting demand to electricity price signals, offering balancing capacity to Transmission System Operators (TSOs)… In this study the first option is analysed (integration of on-site wind power).

Findings: eleven flexible industrial processes could accommodate in Europe, under economic conditions, 68 GW of additional wind capacity, delivering 176 TWh/year of electricity, out of which 2/3 would be self-consumed on-site.

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