CHP
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EVN will market the flexibility of the Theiß Hybrid Storage System in the balancing and intraday markets using CyberGrid's cutting-edge software CyberNoc. The hybrid storage facility includes a thermal storage connected to a combined heat and power plant, capable of providing heat to approximately 30,000 households and electricity to around 15,000 households.
Our vision is to develop a flexible power plant for the rural area, which is able to provide the market participants with flexibility, renewable gas, together with power-to-heat, PV, gas injection into the grid, ancillary services. The goal for the future - and that is why we work together with CyberGrid - is to unlock flexibility and provide flexible production to be ready for the future.
With our biogas plants in Austria, we do have the possibility of producing flexible electricity. With our cooperation with CyberGrid, it is possible for us to participate in the ancillary services market. Thereby generating additional revenues and make our biogas plants future proof. For us it is exciting that the interface is designed very flexibly, which means that we can add additional biogas plants in the future.
CyberGrid participated in a research to analyse the possibilities of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit and a steam system to provide flexibility to the power system, with the aim to meet the requirements of balancing services markets for aFRR and mFRR in Austria. The steam system applied in the investigated paper mill can be considered as a typical industrial steam system with different primary fuels, back-pressure steam turbines, and heat steam demand on different pressure levels (high-, mid-m and low-pressure). In this paper, flexibility is considered as the ability to change the electricity output of the turbine generator.
Turn electricity and heat into market value
Industrial operations with significant electrical and thermal energy loads can benefit from Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems to provide grid services and meet energy demands.
CHP systems generate electricity and useful thermal energy from a single fuel source, which derives in increased overall efficiency. By simultaneously doing so, CHP plants help industrial facilities, district heating networks, commercial buildings, and energy producers reduce energy costs, improve security of supply, and lower emissions.
Biomass & biogas
Biomass and biogass plants can provide renewable dispatchable energy when it is needed most. Unlike intermittent renewable technologies, these can be stored and converted into electrcity and heat on demand, making them valuable assets for balancing increasingly variable power systems.
- Renewable and dispatchable generation
- Simultaneous production of electricity and heat
- Participation in energy and balancing markets
- Enhanced grid stability and flexibility provision
- Additional revenues through flexibility marketing
Gas & steam turbines
Gas and steam turbine CHP systems are widely used across industrial facilities, district heating networks, and commercial energy centers due to their ability to efficiently supply both power and heat.
- High-efficiency power and heat generation
- Optimized management of electrical and thermal loads
- Real-time dispatch based on energy market conditions
- Participation in day-ahead, intraday, and balancing markets
- Increased profitability through flexibility monetization
- Support for secure and reliable energy supply
Frequently asked questions
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We connect all types and scales of flexibilities
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