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WP3 · Energy technology
Demand, storage and markets
In the project plan: Local energy demand, storage and new market models
When wind and solar dominate, matching supply and demand becomes the central problem. This work package designed and compared local market models, storage options and demand-side management in the built environment, with new roles such as prosumers and aggregators, starting from living labs in Noord-Brabant and Rotterdam and linking local models to the national integral model.
✎ draftPrincipal investigators
Co-investigator · Eindhoven University of Technology
Floor AlkemadePrincipal investigator · Eindhoven University of Technology
Floor AlkemadePrincipal investigator · Eindhoven University of Technology Geert Verbong
Principal investigator · Eindhoven University of Technology Jan Hensen
Co-investigator · Eindhoven University of Technology Pieter-Jan Hoes
Co-investigator · Eindhoven University of Technology
PhD researchers
Other researchers
- Amira El Feiaz, PhD. Candidate
- Geert Verbong, Professor
Partners
About this work package
Objectives
An open question is how local supply and demand can be integrated in the energy market in a way
that aligns with energy transition objectives. The main aim of this WP is therefore to design, test, and evaluate new market models that help accelerate the energy transition. The widespread use of renewables and the electrification of transport, heating, and industry open up new possibilities and roles for users and producers in the energy system. Harnessing the potential of the new roles such as prosumers, aggregators, and energy cooperatives requires new market models.
In this project you will develop a framework for different market models in order to be able to explore the impacts of the different options in terms of energy, costs and GHG reductions, and distributional effects. You will test the market models in a modeled and living lab context.
PhD. candidates
This WP is looking for the best students with a background, in economics, innovation sciences, energy science, building and planning, or governance that want to design and test new market models for the energy transition? This project requires both qualitative and quantitative skills, multidisciplinary and relevant prior experience is an advantage. If that sounds like you, check out our vacancies.
Research activities
- Design and investigate new local roles and market structures in demand side management such as
prosumers and aggregators. - Research the societal challenges in smart energy systems with a focus on local social costs and
benefits and embedding in the built environment. - Investigate local energy demand scenarios in the built environment of the use cases
- Determine the role of different storage technologies within local renewable energy systems
(including batteries, hydrogen storage and power to gas). - Develop interface between local and national models (link to WP10)
Overall contribution to the NEON project
New market models are pivotal in realizing the energy transition. This project thereby provides a key part of the NEON integral models in close cooperation with the other NEON researchers.
Text from the former NEON website (original page).
What the plan set out to do
Promises from the 2019 project plan, not results.
Cost-effective and fair market models that can be implemented locally (with WP8 and WP9).
Design and evaluation of neighbourhood-level storage in a living lab context, including batteries, hydrogen and power-to-gas.
Analysis of roles for new and existing actors: prosumers, aggregators, ESCOs, virtual power plants, local energy cooperatives.
Regulatory boundaries and institutional barriers for beneficial market models, and ways to overcome them.
Local energy demand scenarios for the built environment of the use cases.
An interface between models of the local built environment and the integral model (WP10).
10 conference papers, 8 journal publications and 2 PhD theses (month 48).
Publications and talks
- Social tipping dynamics in the energy system (journal-article, 2024)
- Energy Communities as an Alternative Way of Organizing the Energy System in Europe: Key Societal Aspects (book-chapter, 2024)