Sentences with phrase «demand side flexibility»

Not exact matches

«You lose flexibility on the supply side, so you need to gain some on the demand side,» says Tim Green of Imperial College London, perhaps by encouraging people to charge their electric cars when the sun shines.

This means policymakers will need to put in place ways to increase system flexibility — such as grid interconnections, electricity storage and demand - side response.

The flexibility provided by demand - side response is therefore both a valuable resource facilitating the integration of a high share of variable renewables, and a symbol of the shift away from the traditional paradigm of supply following demand.

Flexibility, dispatchability and capacity (as well as other services such as inertia and frequency control) can be provided by storage, other renewable technologies and the cheapest — demand - side management.

A majority of customers are eager for more tools to reduce their energy consumption and provide demand - side flexibility.

In Denmark the TSO has estimated the impacts of increasing the wind penetration level from 20 % to 50 % (of gross demand) and concluded that further large scale integration of wind power calls for exploiting both, domestic flexibility and international power markets with measures on the market side, production side, transmission side and demand side -LRB-[19] and [20]-RRB-.

These included the need for the growth in Wind and solar PV to be deployed in parallel with measure to improve system flexibility, including demand side response, distributed generation and storage.

The report does say that «in many ways «demand - side» solutions are most suited to matching the needs of intermittency» and it looks at key aspects of «Flexible demand» e.g. flexibility from non-heat sources (such as washing machines, tumble dryers etc.) and optimised charging of electric vehicles, including for example «the speed of response, the timescales for being turned off, speed of deployment and likely behavioural characteristics».

They argue for measures such as a more decentralised power supply, power storage, demand - side flexibility, or even splitting the German power market into two different price zones.