Volume 15

The low-carbon transition and the energy crisis pose new challenges for sustainableeconomic growth in the European Union. The high import dependency and the still insufficient share of renewable energy sources threaten the competitiveness of the European economy, especially in small open economies. The article aims to introduce the term “industrial energy vulnerability” to investigate impact…

As part of the energy transition, private households become prosumer households
with modern devices like photovoltaic systems, battery storage systems, and electric
vehicles. This research tries to reduce the prosumers’ negative impact on the
local power grid by assessing the impact of different incentivation and control
mechanisms in a simulative, interactive scheduling scheme for households and a
central grid instance. Results show a positive impact on grid operation by iterative
mechanisms adding incentives or limitations for time steps with congestions in an
iterative procedure. Although no single mechanism stands out in the investigation,
the conditional power and daily peak pricing seem to offer a trade-off
between grid
relief and added costs for households without a need for communication. Further
research on prosumer integration is needed for them to contribute to a resilient
grid operation.