Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Emission Abatement Strategies for a Local Multi-Energy System - A Case Study of Chalmers University of Technology Campus
Journal article, 2020

This paper investigates the cost-effectiveness of operation strategies which can be used to abate CO2 emissions in a local multi-energy system. A case study is carried out using data from a real energy system that integrates district heating, district cooling, and electricity networks at Chalmers University of Technology. Operation strategies are developed using a mixed integer linear programming multi-objective optimization model with a short foresight rolling horizon and a year of data. The cost-effectiveness of different strategies is evaluated across different carbon prices. The results provide insights into developing abatement strategies for local multi-energy systems that could be used by utilities, building owners, and authorities. The optimized abatement strategies include: increased usage of biomass boilers, substitution of district heating and absorption chillers with heat pumps, and higher utilization of storage units. The results show that, by utilizing all the strategies, a 20.8% emission reduction can be achieved with a 2.2% cost increase for the campus area. The emission abatement cost of all strategies is 36.6–100.2 (€/tCO2 ), which is aligned with estimated carbon prices if the Paris agreement target is to be achieved. It is higher, however, than average European Emission Trading System prices and Sweden’s carbon tax in 2019.

multi-energy systems

local energy management systems

multi-objective optimization

emission abatement strategies

rolling time-horizon

distributed energy systems

Author

Nima Mirzaei Alavijeh

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

David Steen

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

Zack Norwood

University of Gothenburg

Anh Tuan Le

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

Christos Agathokleous

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Electric Power Engineering

Energies

1996-1073 (ISSN) 19961073 (eISSN)

Vol. 13 7 en13071626

Fossil Free Energy Districts (FED)

Region Västra Götaland (RUN 2017-00522 och MN 2017-00126), 2017-07-01 -- 2019-10-31.

European Commission (EC) (UIA01-209), 2016-11-01 -- 2019-10-31.

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Energy

Subject Categories

Energy Systems

DOI

10.3390/en13071626

Related datasets

The model, district heating and electricity prices, marginal electricity and district heating emissions, emission factors' calculations, etc [dataset]

URI: www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/7/1626/s1

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