Flexible DH: Increased possibilities for district heating companies to contribute with ancillary services to the power grid

The long term goal of the project is that more district heating (DH) companies are active on the ancillary service markets and contribute to a stable and secure power system. The project has two main parts.

First, the role and value of having DH contribute on the flexibility markets is examined through a systems perspective using energy system modeling.

The second part aims to increase the possibility and will of DH companies to be active on the markets by developing and verifying a tool prototype that calculates the necessary information that DH companies lack today to engage in the ancillary markets.

Lessons learned from the verification process are summarized in a handbook for DH companies, including knowledge transfer from other DH companies with experience from the markets.

Hence, the project answers both what the value for society is of having an active DH sector on the flexibility markets (national level) as well as what the value is for the individual company (local level).