Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228285 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ESRI Working Paper No. 637
Publisher: 
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin
Abstract: 
A promising tool to achieve more flexibility within power systems is demand re-sponse (DR). End-users in many strands of industry have been subject to research up to now regarding the opportunities for implementing DR programmes. One sector that has received little attention from the literature so far, is wastewater treatment. However, case studies indicate that the potential for wastewater treatment plants to provide DR services might be significant. This review presents and categorises recent modelling approaches for industrial demand response as well as for the wastewater treatment plant operation. Furthermore, the main sources of flexibility from wastewater treatment plants are presented: a potential for variable electricity use in aeration, the time-shifting operation of pumps, the exploitation of built-in redundan-cy in the system and flexibility in the sludge processing. Although case studies con-note the potential for DR from individual WWTPs, no study acknowledges the en-dogeneity of energy prices which arises from a large-scale utilisation of DR. There-fore, an integrated energy systems approach is required to quantify system and market effects effectively.
Subjects: 
Energy-water nexus
demand response
wastewater treatment
flexibility
energy system
modelling
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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