Grid-supportive buildings and districts. Buildings relieve power grids.

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As Germany's energy provision will in future be largely based on solar and wind energy, which are not available on call, new concepts must be developed to ensure security of supply and grid stability. At the same time, a future climate-neutral building stock will play a key role in the German government's concepts for climate protection. This is because the building sector as a major energy consumer in the German energy system can make a significant contribution to ensuring greater flexibility and gridsupportive consumption behaviour by enabling buildings and districts to act as dispatchable loads, electricity storage systems or decentralised generators. Selectively changing their temporal electricity consumption and injection profile enables buildings to support load smoothing and load shifting. Buildings have a large thermal storage capacity in the form of hot and cold water storage systems and the building mass itself. Therefore, by coupling them with electricity-based technologies for supplying heating and cooling capacities such as heat pumps and chillers, surplus electricity can be converted into thermal energy or, when there is additional demand, decentralised combined heat and power plants can be operated. Grid-supportiveness is thus an additional requirement for buildings and districts of the future – in addition to energy and cost efficiency, ecology and user comfort. This Themeninfo brochure defines in detail how grid-supportiveness can be quantified as well as how grid requirements can be modelled in reference variables and taken into account in innovative, grid-responsive control concepts. This information is drawn from the joint "Grid Responsive Buildings" research project that was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as part of the "EnOB – Research for Energy-Optimized Building" and "EnEff:Stadt – Research for the Energy Efficient City" research initiatives. The Themeninfo brochure provides insights into current debates and research.
German Edition: Netzdienliche Gebäude und Quartiere. Gebäude entlasten Stromnetze.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISSN: 1610-8302
• Umfang: 24 p.
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: BINE Informationsdienst - Themeninfo; 1/2018

Klassifikation und Themen

• Thema: A compact guide to energy research ; Energy systems ; Building & city

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kalz, Doreen ; Klein, Konstantin ; Palzer, Andreas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastruktur GmbH, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Förderung: Förderung durch das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi)Förderkennzeichen: 03ET1111A-B
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 08:00 MEZ