Energy Revolution Research Consortium - Plus - EnergyREV - Market Design for Scaling up Local Clean Energy Systems

智能本地能源系统提供了新的机会，从分布式能源技术（如电动汽车、家用电池和热泵）的所有者那里释放宝贵的需求灵活性。当与消费者级信息通信技术基础设施相结合时，这些资源使以前被动的消费者成为“产消者”——能够主动管理其消费、生产和储存能源的消费者。智能地方能源系统示范项目预计将催生一系列地方能源市场和平台，为产消者积极参与能源系统提供新的机会。针对这些市场和平台的各种设计和商业模式都是可能的。一些平台已经开始运营，聚集了大量的消费者，并为国家电网提供平衡服务。本地灵活性服务的新市场可以使生产用户帮助管理电压和热限制，有助于配电系统的弹性。还提出了直接点对点能源交易市场，通过促进灵活资源的使用，帮助匹配当地的供需，这将为产消者和整个系统提供双赢。为了确保当地能源市场在当地创造价值，并能够成功地扩大规模，能源市场和监管安排将需要调整。主要的机会是地方能源市场在全国范围内整合，清洁的地方能源和灵活性减少了对发电和输电基础设施的大量投资的需求。要实现这一规模扩大，需要新的市场设计框架和配套技术，而产销消费者的偏好和行为至关重要。该项目旨在回答一个研究问题：“如何设计地方和系统级能源市场，以成功地将地方清洁能源系统整合到全国范围内？”高性能计算将用于大规模模拟，以研究在不同时间尺度和物理尺度上并行运行的本地能源市场之间的相互作用。这将有助于设计新的地方和系统一级的协调机制和政策，并使其影响得到评价。该项目将通过提供新颖的见解和定量证据，从而提高能源革命研究联盟提供的价值，这些见解和定量证据可与当地智能能源系统示范者和决策者共享。

Smart local energy systems offer the new opportunity to unlock valuable demand flexibility from owners of distributed energy technologies, such as electric vehicles, home batteries and heat-pumps. When combined with consumer-level ICT infrastructure, these resources allow previously passive consumers to become 'prosumers' - consumers who can proactively manage their consumption, production and storage of energy.The smart local energy system demonstrators are expected to generate a range of local energy markets and platforms, offering new opportunities for prosumers to actively engage with the energy system. A wide variety of designs and business models for these markets and platforms are possible. Platforms are already operating that aggregate groups of prosumers and offer balancing services to National Grid. New markets for local flexibility services could enable prosumers to help manage voltage and thermal constraints, contributing to distribution system resilience. Markets for direct peer-to-peer energy trading have also been proposed, which would offer a win-win for prosumers, and the system as a whole, by facilitating the use of flexible resources to help match local supply and demand. To ensure local energy markets create value locally, and can successfully scale up, energy market and regulatory arrangements will need adjustment. The major opportunity is for local energy markets to be integrated at the national scale, with clean local energy and flexibility reducing the need for large investments in generation and transmission infrastructure. Achieving this scale-up will require new market design frameworks and supporting technologies, with prosumer preferences and behaviours of central importance. The project aims to answer the research question: "How can local and system-level energy markets be designed to successfully integrate local clean energy systems at the national scale?" High performance computing will be used for large-scale simulation, to study the interactions between local energy markets operating in parallel at different time scales and physical scales. This will facilitate the design of new local and system-level coordination mechanisms and policies, and allow their impact to be evaluated. The project will enhance the value offered by the Energy Revolution Research Consortium by providing novel insights and quantitative evidence which can be shared with the smart local energy system demonstrators as well as policy-makers.