Extending the Automation Pyramid for Industrial Demand Response

Körner, Marc-Fabian; Bauer, Dennis; Keller, Robert M.; Rösch, Martin; Schlereth, Andreas; Šimon, Peter; Bauernhansl, Thomas; Fridgen, Gilbert; Reinhart, Gunther

doi:10.1016/j.procir.2019.03.241

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“…As the laws of physics (e.g., Kirchhoff's Laws) require electricity supply and demand to be balanced, such variability particularly challenges a reliable electricity grid operation [ 41 ]. With the storage capacity of traditional technologies being limited in several European countries due to social, economic, technical, or environmental constraints (e.g., pumped hydropower [ 42 ]) and with new storage technologies not yet being available at reasonable costs in large scales (e.g., batteries and power-to-gas), other options for electricity system flexibility must additionally compensate for the growing variability on the supply side stemming from the increasing feed-in from RES [20] , [31] , [43] , [44] , [89] . In this way, flexibility may directly contribute to the resilience of future low-carbon electricity systems.…”

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The role of flexibility in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Contributing to a sustainable and resilient energy future in Europe

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The energy sector provides fuel for much of everyday life, particularly economically and socially. Fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, a well-functioning and resilient energy sector is vital for maintaining the operation of critical infrastructures, including, most importantly, the health sector, and timely economic recovery. Notwithstanding its importance in everyday life and crises, the energy sector itself is currently in a complex and far-reaching transformation to combat climate change whilst supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy and society, mainly through the development of variable renewable energy sources (RES) such as wind and solar photovoltaics. This paper highlights the need for energy resilience as countries face the triple challenge of the COVID-19 health crisis, the consequent economic crisis, and the climate crisis. Focusing on Europe, it is advanced here that with the ability to balance fluctuating electricity generation and demand, flexibility allows the energy sector to utilise low-carbon RES reliably, ensuring a more resilient and sustainable energy future. This paper derives five urgent policy recommendations for Europe that address possible impacts of COVID-19 on the economic and societal prerequisites for flexibility in energy systems.

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The role of flexibility in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Contributing to a sustainable and resilient energy future in Europe

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“…In this way, DR is a form of energy flexibility on the demand side (Haupt et al 2020). Research repeatedly stresses the crucial role of IS for an efficient DR (Fridgen et al 2020;Kahlen et al 2018;Körner et al 2019). Consequently, also IS research addresses the topic of load shifting.…”

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Not All Doom and Gloom: How Energy-Intensive and Temporally Flexible Data Center Applications May Actually Promote Renewable Energy Sources

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To achieve a sustainable energy system, a further increase in electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES) is imperative. However, the development and implementation of RES entail various challenges, e.g., dealing with grid stability issues due to RES’ intermittency. Correspondingly, increasingly volatile and even negative electricity prices question the economic viability of RES-plants. To address these challenges, this paper analyzes how the integration of an RES-plant and a computationally intensive, energy-consuming data center (DC) can promote investments in RES-plants. An optimization model is developed that calculates the net present value (NPV) of an integrated energy system (IES) comprising an RES-plant and a DC, where the DC may directly consume electricity from the RES-plant. To gain applicable knowledge, this paper evaluates the developed model by means of two use-cases with real-world data, namely AWS computing instances for training Machine Learning algorithms and Bitcoin mining as relevant DC applications. The results illustrate that for both cases the NPV of the IES compared to a stand-alone RES-plant increases, which may lead to a promotion of RES-plants. The evaluation also finds that the IES may be able to provide significant energy flexibility that can be used to stabilize the electricity grid. Finally, the IES may also help to reduce the carbon-footprint of new energy-intensive DC applications by directly consuming electricity from RES-plants.

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“…The Intelligent Information Management System for the aquaponics system is illustrated in Figure 3. It is a free structure unlike the classical automation pyramid [10] with its hierarchical structure and its fixed information flow from bottom to the top. All information will be collected in a central database as in [11].…”

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Intelligent Information Management in Aquaponics to Increase Mutual Benefits

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Aquaponics are feedback and two player systems, in which fish and crops mutually benefit from one another and, therefore require close monitoring, management and control. Vast amount of data and information flow from the aquaponics plant itself with its huge amount of smart sensors for water quality, fish and plant growth, system state etc. and from the stakeholder, e.g., farmers, retailers and end consumers. The intelligent management of aquaponics is only possible if this data and information are managed and used in an intelligent way. Therefore, the main focus of this paper is to introduce an intelligent information management (IIM) for aquaponics. It will be shown how the information can be used to create services such as predictive analytics, system optimization and anomaly detection to improve the aquaponics system. The results show that the system enabled full traceability and transparency in the aquaponics processes (customers can follow what is going on at the farm), reduced water and energy use and increased revenue through early fault detection. In this, paper the information management approach will be introduced and the key benefits of the digitized aquaponics system will be given.

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Extending the Automation Pyramid for Industrial Demand Response

Cited by 36 publications

References 26 publications

The role of flexibility in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Contributing to a sustainable and resilient energy future in Europe

The role of flexibility in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: Contributing to a sustainable and resilient energy future in Europe

Not All Doom and Gloom: How Energy-Intensive and Temporally Flexible Data Center Applications May Actually Promote Renewable Energy Sources

Intelligent Information Management in Aquaponics to Increase Mutual Benefits

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