Impacts of demand response from buildings and centralized thermal energy storage on district heating systems

Paving the way for the Paris Agreement: Contributions of SDEWES science

“…Also, the two different strategies for peak shaving (i.e. physical thermal storages and demandside management) can be simultaneously adopted to improve the performances of district heating networks: the effects of TES and DSM are not overlapping, but complementary for the system perspective [140].…”

Multi-objective optimisation of a solar district heating network with seasonal storage for conditions in cities of southern Chile

“…Many optimisation approaches to thermal networks have focused on exploring mathematical optimisation applied to the design of the network with single objective function, such Krug et al [13] who perform an non-linear optimisation approach, Blackburn et al [14] who present a very fast to solve dynamic optimization approach or Romanchenko et al [15] who performed a mixed-integer unit commitment approach to assess the interactions of a ther-mal energy storage and demand side response in a district heating network's operation. However, these approaches cannot be used in scenarios when more than one objective function needs to be considered, such as when assessing decarbonisation options at affordable costs, which are essential so that the district heating systems with seasonal thermal energy storage provide both environmental and economic benefits.…”

Comparative modeling of cost-optimal energy system flexibility for Swedish and Austrian regions

“…Moreover, most of the previous studies investigated the effects of different types of TES on the operation of DH/DC systems one at a time, without determining whether the TES types are complementary or competitive. The studies that investigated the effects of centralized and building TES reported that the cost and efficiency of the heat supply in DH systems [17,18] were positively affected by centralized and building TES in the same system. These are interesting discoveries that should be further investigated and validated under different circumstances.…”