Indicators for assessing the necessity of power system flexibility : a systematic review and literature meta-analysis

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Bhuiyan, Rajon ; Weissflog, Jan ; Schöpf, Michael ; Fridgen, Gilbert:
Indicators for assessing the necessity of power system flexibility : a systematic review and literature meta-analysis.
In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM). - Ljubljana, Slovenia , 2022
ISBN 978-1-6654-0896-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/EEM54602.2022.9921149

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There are different flexibility options to align power
systems to volatile feed-in of renewable electricity sources. The
flexibility options differ in the dimensions of time, spatiality, and
resource type. To make policy decisions on future energy systems,
it is necessary to get a top-down indication of how much power
system flexibility is needed. With the ongoing energy transition,
there is yet no comprehensive overview of indicators that describe
which dimension of flexibility will be necessary to what extent for
different energy systems. Therefore, this paper provides a first
overview of indicators that can be used to assess the necessity of
power system flexibility. Thus, we do a systematic literature
review to identify indicators that allow us to estimate the necessity
of power system flexibility. We conduct a meta-analysis of these
indicators and categorize them as indicators that either stand for
an increasing or decreasing necessity of power system flexibility.
Our paper can help inform policy, assess needed changes to
system operations, increase stakeholder acceptance and investor
confidence in implementing new technology and measures.