Improving district heat sustainability and competitiveness with heat pumps in the future Nordic energy system

Kristo Helin; Sanna Syri; Behnam Zakeri

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2018.08.210

Improving district heat sustainability and competitiveness with heat pumps in the future Nordic energy system

Kristo Helin^*
, Sanna Syri
, Behnam Zakeri

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Energy and Mechanical Engineering

Aalborg University

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Abstract

District heating (DH) in Nordic countries largely relies on efficient large-scale combined heat and power (CHP) production. The currently low electricity market price has diminished the economic competitiveness of CHP production. Production of DH increasingly happens in thermal heat-only boilers, increasing long-term environmental impacts. An alternative is the use of large-scale heat pumps (LHPs). Utilization of LHPs in hours of low electricity price could be economically advantageous to producers, reduce carbon emissions from burning fuels, and aid in balancing the production and consumption of electricity in a future energy system where electricity production from variable renewable energy is increasing rapidly.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	455-464
Number of pages	10
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	149
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2018.08.210
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 9 Sept 2018 → 12 Sept 2018 Conference number: 16

Funding

This work has been completed with funding by the eR newFIN project of the Academy of Finland. contribution by Behnam Zakeri has been partly supported by the ER -INVEST project “eR newable Energy Investment Strategies – A two-dimensional interconnectivity approach” funded by Innovation Fund Denmark.

UN SDGs

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

Keywords

CHP
district heat
energy system modeling
heat pump
variable renewable energy

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Improving district heat sustainability and competitiveness with heat pumps in the future Nordic energy system

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