In this article, Sia Partners proposes a possible answer by gaining a glimpse into the potential of Demand Response at both European & Belgian levels. The importance of intermittent renewable production in Europe is growing rapidly.
The deployment of their DR potential could also play a role in the improvement of Belgium's security of supply. Demand Response has become an important topic for policy makers throughout Europe. Many countries currently define mechanisms that introduce and valorise energy curtailment.
Elia, the Belgium TSO, states that all markets are open to Demand Response in Belgium, including wholesale. They point out that consumers are able to access the wholesale and balancing markets through their retailer contracts with their retailer. They indicate that this should be sufficient.
Belgium has suffered from periods of severe capacity shortages due to technical issues with multiple nuclear power plants over the last 3 years. In response, efforts have been made to enable Demand Response and the entry of independent aggregators.
The LINEAR project in Belgium unveils substantial demand response potential in the residential sector [1]. In the domain of demand-side management, researchers have focused on price-based control
To counteract critical adequacy issues, the Belgian state has instated a capacity mechanism called strategic reserve (SR). The SR is a mechanism, enforced by the Belgian legislation, to prevent
The objective of this master thesis is to gain insights into the residential demand response landscape in Europe, and more specifically Belgium and the Netherlands, and to identify
: energy efficiency and demand response. The first promotes long-term demand change (for example, a new fridge that consumes less energy) while the second consists in more dynamic and short-term
This document discusses how market response in Belgium can be estimated to be taken into account in adequacy studies, in the context of determination of strategic reserves.
In this article, Sia Partners proposes a possible answer by gaining a glimpse into the potential of Demand Response at both European & Belgian levels. The importance of intermittent
In academic literature, demand response is usually defined as a change in consumption patterns of electricity consumers in response to time-varying tariff structures or incentive payments in order to
Abstract: This report reviews the current status of European Member States'' regulation supporting Demand Response and Aggregation in the wholesale, balancing and ancillary electricity markets, as
Following the unprecedented crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Belgium''s recovery and resilience plan has responded to the urgent need to foster a strong recovery, while making Belgium''s
In this paper, we discuss the possible future of demand response (DR). After a short definition, a historical perspective on the development of DR programs is discussed.
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