Research Group Cognitive and Engineering Psychology
Research Group Cognitive and Engineering Psychology

NEMoGrid - New Energy Business Models in the Distribution Grid

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Project partners

Associated partners

 

Funding

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This project has received funding in the framework of the joint programming initiative ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus, with support from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.

 

Duration

09/2017-12/2020

 

Topic

The increase of distributed energy resources (DERs) reduces the energy sales of the distribution system operators (DSO). Given the present tariff scheme, the utilities will likely counterbalance the missing income deriving from a reduction in the amount of energy sold by increasing grid tariffs. As a consequence, prosumers might decide to further increase self-consumption, invest in local storage technologies and even disconnect themselves from the grid, inducing the so called death spiral in the utility sector. The goal of the project is to design and evaluate innovative business models favoring the integration of DERs in the distribution grid by attaining an economic and technical optimum at community level, considering three scenarios: centralized DSO planned, voltage based tariff (decentralized), peer-to-peer distributed market using blockchain for energy transactions. The proposed scenarios will be evaluated in simulation and validated in two demo sites in Switzerland and Sweden.

During the NEMoGrid project, the TU Chemnitz will be responsible for the investigation of consumer and prosumer perspectives and their acceptance (i.e., user adoption topics).

 

Contact staff

Maria Kreußlein and Susen Döbelt

Publications

  • Döbelt, S., & Kreußlein, M. (2022). My Grid is Your Grid: Consumer and Prosumer Perspectives on Peer-2-Peer Traded Energy in Self-Consumption Communities. In Bermeitinger, C. & Greve, W. (Eds.), DGPs 2022 - Abstracts of the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (p. 165). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.
  • Döbelt, S., Kreusslein, M. (2018). Conflicting User Needs "Degrees of Freedom" and "Ease of Use". White Paper. Abrufbar unter: Link
  • Döbelt, S., Kreusslein, M. (2018). D2.3 Results regarding consumer / prosumer requirements. NEMoGrid Project Deliverable, Work Package 2. Abrufbar unter: Link
  • Döbelt, S., Kreusslein, M. (2019). Imagine 2025: Prosumer and Consumer Requirements for Distributed Energy Resource Systems Business Models. In: Ahram T. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Systems Engineering. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 965. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20454-9_62
  • Döbelt, S., Kreusslein, M. (2019). Imagine 2025: Evaluation von zukünftigen Geschäftsmodellen zur Integration von Erneuerbaren Energien in das Verteilnetz. Eingeladener Vortrag, 4. Fachsymposium Mobilität der Zukunft. Abrufbar unter: Link
  • Döbelt, S., & Kreusslein,M. (2020).  Peer-to-Peer Traded Energy: Prosumer and Consumer Focus Groups about a Self-consumption Community Scenario. In C. Stephanidis & M. Antona (eds.). 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19-24, 2020, Proceedings, Part I, 130-140, Springer, Cham.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50726-8

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