Lost generation: Reflections on resilience and flexibility from an energy system architecture perspective

Lowe, Robert; Chiu, Lai Fong; Pye, Steve; Cassarino, Tiziano Gallo; Scamman, Daniel; Solano-Rodríguez, Baltazar

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117179

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“…Both approaches view storage as key to future decarbonisation, but differ in respect of what forms of storage to deploy, and whether to adapt or transform the existing energy system to accommodate them. Economies of scale with respect both to operation and capital costs mean that the selection of locations for deployment of storage within the energy system is not arbitrary [20]: opportunities for deployment of storage in all energy futures depend to a significant extent on the topology of energy transmission and distribution systems. Conversely, in the light of the large requirements for flexibility in the emerging energy system, storage may confer increasing economic advantage on architectures and technologies that facilitate its integration.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Emerging from the above [16][17][18][19] there is a need to embed modelling within an overarching conceptual framework that combines top-down and bottom-up perspectives. In a previous paper [20] we outlined the potential benefits of adopting a System Architecture framework to help structure the development of energy system decarbonisation strategies and deal with the complexity of the emergent energy system.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…"The spatial, topological and functional organisation of energy generation, conversion, transmission, distribution, storage, end-use and regulatory systems within the whole energy system." [20] This definition captures the conceptual structure and logical organisation of the energy system and its sub-systems, their boundaries, inter-relationships, and associated constraints.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Eliciting Stakeholders’ Requirements for Future Energy Systems: A Case Study of Heat Decarbonisation in the UK

Chiu¹,

Lowe²

2022

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It is a truism that whole energy system models underpin the development of policies for energy system decarbonisation. But recent reviews have thrown doubt on the appropriateness of such models for addressing the multiple goals for future energy systems, in the face of emergent real-world complexity and the evolution of stakeholder’s priorities. Without an understanding of the changing priorities of policy makers and expectations of stakeholders for future systems, system objectives and constraints are likely to be ill-defined, and there is a risk that models may be inadvertently instrumentalised. Adopting a system architecture perspective, the authors have undertaken a three-year programme of research to explore strategies for decarbonising heat in the UK, with interaction with and elicitation of needs from stakeholders at its heart. This paper presents the procedure, methods, and results of an exercise in which experts from stakeholder organisations across the energy system were interviewed. Analysis of interview data reveals two broad approaches to heat decarbonisation which can be broadly defined as either adaptive or transformative. Specific insights gained from these interviews enabled our modelling teams to refocus their work for exploration with a wider circle of stakeholders. Results suggests that this iterative approach to formalising model-policy interaction could improve the transparency and legitimacy of modelling and enhance its impact on policy making.

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Eliciting Stakeholders’ Requirements for Future Energy Systems: A Case Study of Heat Decarbonisation in the UK

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“…Resilience is needed to deal with system stress arising from technical failures, extreme cold weather and, in the context of future energy systems with very high renewable fractions, prolonged lack of wind or sun [4]. Some suggested that Hydrogen dominant systems would be more resilient because of storage inherent within the distribution network.…”

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“…The Heat Challenge Theme in CREDS has adopted a system architecture approach [2,3] to explore the increasingly complex issues brought on by the introduction of new heating technologies, and systemwide changes in electricity generation and control. Locating system modelling within an Energy System Architecture framework provides, among other things, a way to structure discourse between modellers and energy system stakeholders around different possible choices and decisions [4].…”

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confidence: 99%