Peter Tzscheutschler

Technische Universität München | TUM · Chair of Energy Economy and Application Technology

Local energy markets (LEMs) provide opportunity to handle the challenges arising from the lower grid level while using the traditional top-down approach to manage distributed generated renewable energy resources. Blockchain based local energy markets (LEMs) have been introduced in recent years as a way to enable local consumers/prosumers to trade t...

Local energy markets (LEMs) are utilized in a bottom-up power systems approach for reducing the complexity of the traditional, centralized power system and to enable better integration of decentralized renewable energy resources (RES). Peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading creates opportunities for prosumers to trade their RES with other prosumers in t...

Increasing distributed energy resource penetration requires additional methods to tackle grid congestion and enhance reliability. In addition, advancements in demand-side management can help strengthen distribution network stability. A viable approach is to develop local flexibility markets (LFMs) to aggregate prosumer flexibility potentials and of...

Local energy markets (LEMs) are proposed in recent years as a way to enable local prosumers and community to trade their electricity and have control over their electrical related resources by ensuring that electricity is traded closer to where it is produced. However, literature is still scarce with the most optimal and effective trading strategie...

In recent years, local energy markets (LEMs) have been introduced to empower end-customers within energy communities at the distribution level of the power system, in order to be able to trade their energy locally in a competitive and fair environment. However, there is still some challenge with regard to the most efficient approach in organising t...

More than 30% of the world’s energy consumption depends on building sector which causes 27% of total greenhouse gas emissions. More than 50% of this load is associated to space heating and cooling in buildings. The ground source heat pumps are used in building sector especially in harsh and warm climates, as a valid alternative to electric air-to-a...

The possibilities to involve small-scale prosumers for ancillary services in the distribution grid through aggregators and local flexibility markets question whether it is profitable for prosumers to oversize proactively. In this analysis, a Python model is developed to identify the cost-optimal operation plan of the PV-battery system and to evalua...

Abstract The continuous decentralisation of the energy system due to the expansion of renewable energies requires new coordination mechanisms such as Local Energy Markets (LEMs) that are capable of integrating millions of prosumers as active participants. Since the end of the 2010s, the blockchain technology has been discussed as a potential infras...

The advancing energy transition is leading to a constantly increasing number of prosumers and active participants in the energy system. Local energy markets are considered a promising approach to coordinate those active participants efficiently, increase acceptance among the population, and decrease grid expansion costs. However, energy models and...

The possibilities to involve small-scale prosumers for ancillary services in the distribution grid through aggregators and local flexibility markets question whether it is profitable for prosumers to oversize proactively. In this analysis, a Python model is developed to identify the cost-optimal operation plan of the PV-battery system and to evalua...

Prosumer-dominated thermal networks interconnect distributed prosumers. These networks form the infrastructure that allows to execute the trading of thermal energy as desired in the context of local energy markets. However, the significantly different behavior of such networks compared to conventional district heating and cooling networks has not y...

Prosumer-based district heating networks attract an increasing interest in energy research. There are numerous publications addressing the prosumer integration into district heating networks with a focus on grid side operation. However, the operation of the prosumer side has not been extensively investigated in the literature where bidirectional he...

With the increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy generation, there is a growing demand to use the inherent flexibility within buildings to absorb renewable related disruptions. Heat pumps play a particularly important role, as they account for a high share of electricity consumption in residential units. The most common way of quant...

Local electricity markets (LEMs) are investigated as a solution to provide consumers and prosumers the opportunity to have control over their electricity-related choices and make savings on their energy bills. This work analyzes market design factors, such as the number of update intervals per trading slot, the production-to-consumption (PtC) ratio...

The integration of PV-generated electricity from households and commercial buildings into the electricity mix offers opportunity to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions released in the Earth's atmosphere. The rising quantity of these distributed energy resources (DER) and their fluctuating energy production makes it challenging for the grid operator...

The framework presented provides an open-source, blockchain-based, peer-to-peer energy market platform which can be used for testing different setups or for creating a microgrid peer-to-peer trading platform. The framework offers the following possibilities: • variations of the trading horizon, metering intervals; • simulations within a fraction of...

Local electricity markets (LEMs) are investigated as a solution to provide the residential and small commercial consumers, and prosumers the opportunity to have control over their electricity-related choices and make more profit from the electricity trading. This work analysis the market design factors such as update intervals in a time step, produ...

Die Technische Universität München ist der Frage nachgegangen: Wie kann der Einsatz der Energieinfrastruktur einer Liegenschaft optimiert werden und daraus durch das Energiemanagementsystem Flexibilität zur Vermeidung von Netzengpässen angeboten werden? Das Poster zeigt anhand eines Schemas die Vorgehensweise zur Quantifizierung und Bepreisung von...

The adoption of electric vehicles is incentivized by governments around the world to decarbonize the mobility sector. Simultaneously, the continuously increasing amount of renewable energy sources and electric devices such as heat pumps and electric vehicles leads to congested grids. To meet this challenge, several forms of flexibility markets are...

With the increasing share of renewable energy, alternative methods are ought to provide power system ancillary services to ensure the stable operation of the electricity grids. Recent research have inclined their interests towards the aggregation of the small-scale system flexibility potentials to accommodate the grid variations. Literature has sho...

This paper describes a newly built laboratory at the Research Center for Combined Smart Energy Systems (CoSES) at TU Munich. The laboratory is designed to provide a facility for analysis and testing of integrated energy systems (electricity, heating, cooling, e-mobility) in a holistic manner, which is recognized as a necessary approach in successfu...

Increasing integration of renewables can cause congestion and power grid instability. Recent congestion management studies have shown the possibilities to offer flexibility with distributed energy resources (DERs) and the need for flexibility market platforms. This paper presents a flexibility model for a combination of photovoltaics and battery st...

Energy trading markets are one of the most viable solutions to incentivize prosumers in Microgrids. They offer the utility a versatile access for flexible loads coordination without violating the consumer privacy. In the literature , several models and designs were presented to address different aspects of energy trading markets, yet there is a gap...

Local energy markets represent a mean for distributed energy resources trading for prosumers and energy management for utilities. In these markets, prosumers either trade or shift their loads to maximize their trading gains via communicating with an energy market platform. The utility considers the trading process as an approach to maximize the aut...

When an author under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published the paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” in 2008, the first cryptocurrency using the new blockchain technology was introduced. Over the last decade, more than 1,000 different cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin were developed and Bitcoin's currency...

Heating systems such as heat pumps and combined heat and power cycle systems (CHP) represent a key component in the future smart grid. Their capability to couple the electricity and heat sector promises a massive contribution to the energy transition. Hence, these systems are continuously studied numerically and experimentally to quantify their pot...

Heating systems such as heat pump and combined heat and power cycle systems (CHP) are representing a key component in the future smart grid. Their capability to couple the electricity and heat sector promises a massive potential to the energy transition. Hence, these systems are continuously studied numerical and experimental to quantify their pote...

The impact of renewable energies on the power grid is continuously increasing. Besides the emission-free power generation, the renewable energies often are the cause for congested grids, component failure and costly interventions by the distribution system operators (DSO) and transmission system operators (TSO) in order to maintain grid stability....

The photovoltaic (PV) generation forecast is a key element to an efficient building energy management system (EMS) operation. The forecast's uncertainties and generation variabilities expose the loads to misplanning, and hence decrease building autonomy, self-sufficiency, and potential costs savings. In this paper, a novel approach for a day-ahead...

There is a continuous growth of heat pump installations in residential buildings in Germany. The heat pumps are not only used for space heating and domestic hot water consumption but also to offer flexibility to the grid. The high coefficient of performance and the low cost of heat storages made the heat pumps one of the optimal candidates for the...

Demand-side Management (DSM) algorithms are exposed to several uncertainties due to their dependency on renewable energy generation forecasts. On the large scale, generation and load forecasts can be relatively accurate, yet on the residential scale, forecasting errors increase due to higher uncertainties. One potential solution is to incorporate a...

There is a continuous growth of heat pump installations in residential buildings in Germany. The heat pumps were not only used for space heating and domestic hot water consumption but also to offer flexibility to the grid. the high coefficient of performance and the low cost of heat storages made the heat pumps an optimal candidate for the power to...

Modelling and optimization of energy management systems (EMS) require different data types for operation and validation. In this article, a multi-purpose dataset is provided for EMS applications. It includes PV measurement data for the PV generation and prediction algorithms associated with EMS systems. Weather data has also been measured at the sa...

The ongoing change of energy policies has been paving the path to a more sustainable energy production via the smart grids. The developed legal framework has encouraged the households to install PV systems, batteries and micro combined heat and power plants (micro-CHP) to increase their own economic benefit. A home energy management system (HEMS) h...

Decentralized energy supply is a frequently discussed topic in German industry, caused by continuously rising energy prices. This study assesses configurations of hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) with regard to their ability to decrease a company’s energy supply costs. We apply mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) to optimize an electricit...

KURZFASSUNG In den nächsten Jahren werden immer mehr Gebäude mit intelligenten, steuerbaren Geräten und Energiemanagementsystemen ausgestattet sein. Diese Systeme ermöglichen, das Gebäude in das Demand Side Management (DSM) einzubinden und durch Monitoring und Abstimmung von Erzeugung und Verbrauch netzdienliche Lastreduktion oder nutzerdienliche E...

Micro cogeneration units are a very efficient way to supply buildings with heat and electricity. In addition to conventional powered CHP units, there are also SOFC powered units. In opposition to conventional CHP their thermal efficiency is strongly dependent on the return temperature from the DHW and heating system. The efficiency is invers to the...

Micro combined heat and power (CHP) systems have been always offering multiple potential advantages compared to conventional thermal or electric power generation systems. At the Institute of Energy Economy and Application Technology (IfE), micro CHP test beds based on multiple technologies have been setup to be evaluated under different operating c...

Increasing shares of renewable energy resources within the electricity system, in addition to increasing numbers of domestic micro co-generation, requires different operation and management strategies for decentralised supply systems a flexible demand side management (DSM). Through the DSM, several benefits can be witnessed, it can assist in shavin...

Demand Side Management (DSM) represents one of the most important factors in increasing the overall electrical system efficiency. It assists significantly in integration of renewable energy sources and domestic micro cogeneration as well. Consequently, it leads to several advantages that works towards improving grid stability, peak-clipping, and en...

Microcogeneration can guarantee sensible primary energy savings and greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the residential sector. In this paper, the results of experimental tests carried out on a microcogenerator (5.5 kW electric power and 14.8 kW thermal power) based on a natural gas fuelled internal combustion engine, integrated with a condensin...

A simplified model of a primary HVAC system comprising an on-off boiler, thermal storage and solar thermal collectors is simulated in hourly resolution. The simulation passes the results to an optimization algorithm that sizes the system. The objective is to minimize total costs and reach a desired solar ratio. Results show good model performance a...

The European Union recently established an ambitious target by 2020 that consists of increasing the utilization of renewable energy up to 20%, reducing its overall pollutant emissions by at least 20%, and achieving a primary energy saving of 20% compared to reported 1990 levels. This aim can only be realized with strong effort in different sectors,...

The European Union recently established an ambitious target by 2020 that consists of increasing the utilization of renewable energy up to 20%, reducing its overall pollutant emissions to at least 20%, and achieving a primary energy saving of 20% compared to reported 1990 levels. This aim could be reached only with strong effort in different sectors...

Nowadays, evaluation of thermal comfort in early design stages of building projects gains more and more significance. Unfortunately, the computation of thermal comfort indices regarding local effects such as thermal asymmetric radiation differences as mentioned in EN ISO 7730 are not well documented. This article describes a general simulation proc...

In view of resource scarcity and environmental issues, transition of the current energy system towards a renewable-based supply seems to be a necessity. The interesting questions within this framework are how such a renewable-based energy system should be structured, and how costly it might be. We investigated the optimal structure of a prospective...

Emission reduction targets as well as the scarcity of fossil resources make a transition of the energy system towards a carbon free electricity supply necessary. Promising energy resources are solar and wind energy. The challenging characteristics of the high temporal and geographic variability of these resources make a systematic analysis of the i...

Proposed emission reduction targets as well as the scarcity of fossil fuel resources make a transition of the energy system towards a carbon free electricity supply necessary. Promising energy resources are solar and wind energy. The high temporal and geographical variability of these resources is challenging for their integration. This study focus...

A detailed survey of energy use in Germany in 2007 covers introduction; development of the need for primary energy; structure of the end energy requirements; structure of current or power requirements; end energy requirements; and user based classifications of primary energy requirements. In recent years the energy requirements of Germany have been...

With as background the present discussions in the world on climate protection and energy efficiency, energy use in Germany and its associated carbon dioxide emissions are described and discussed. Energy carriers and usage structure are emphasized and an annual balance sheet is presented from primary energy to end and useful energy. The discussion c...

By means of energetic life cycle assessment, innovative fuel cell (FC) powertrain systems and the respective fuels are examined and compared with conventional systems. The basis for this research is process chain analyses for the supply of conventional and alternative fuels at the point of consumption in Germany, e.g. compressed natural gas, methan...

A discussion covers energy use and its related CO 2 emissions in Germany. At the same time, the energy carrier and usage structures are considered and the annual balance sheet is presented starting with primary and from there going to end energy and then to net effective energy. The central themes of the energy industry in Germany in recent years h...