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Main Authors: Ripp, Christopher, Steinke, Florian
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Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04003
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author Ripp, Christopher
Steinke, Florian
author_facet Ripp, Christopher
Steinke, Florian
contents CO$_2$ emission reduction and increasing volatile renewable energy generation mandate stronger energy sector coupling and the use of energy storage. In such multi-modal energy systems, it is challenging to determine the effect of an individual player's consumption pattern onto overall CO$_2$ emissions. This, however, is often important to evaluate the suitability of local CO$_2$ reduction measures. Due to renewables' volatility, the traditional approach of using annual average CO$_2$ intensities per energy form is no longer accurate, but the time of consumption should be considered. Moreover, CO$_2$ intensities are highly coupled over time and different energy forms due to sector coupling and energy storage. We introduce and compare two novel methods for computing time-dependent CO$_2$ intensities, that address different objectives: the first method determines CO$_2$ intensities of the energy system as is. The second method analyzes how overall CO$_2$ emissions would change in response to infinitesimal demand changes. Given a digital twin of the energy system in form of a linear program, we show how to compute these sensitivities very efficiently. We present the results of both methods for two simulated test energy systems and discuss their different implications.
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spellingShingle Modeling Time-dependent CO$_2$ Intensities in Multi-modal Energy Systems with Storage
Ripp, Christopher
Steinke, Florian
Signal Processing
CO$_2$ emission reduction and increasing volatile renewable energy generation mandate stronger energy sector coupling and the use of energy storage. In such multi-modal energy systems, it is challenging to determine the effect of an individual player's consumption pattern onto overall CO$_2$ emissions. This, however, is often important to evaluate the suitability of local CO$_2$ reduction measures. Due to renewables' volatility, the traditional approach of using annual average CO$_2$ intensities per energy form is no longer accurate, but the time of consumption should be considered. Moreover, CO$_2$ intensities are highly coupled over time and different energy forms due to sector coupling and energy storage. We introduce and compare two novel methods for computing time-dependent CO$_2$ intensities, that address different objectives: the first method determines CO$_2$ intensities of the energy system as is. The second method analyzes how overall CO$_2$ emissions would change in response to infinitesimal demand changes. Given a digital twin of the energy system in form of a linear program, we show how to compute these sensitivities very efficiently. We present the results of both methods for two simulated test energy systems and discuss their different implications.
title Modeling Time-dependent CO$_2$ Intensities in Multi-modal Energy Systems with Storage
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04003