Current research concerning industrial demand side management primarily focuses on monetary aspects. Herein, we extend this perspective by assessing whether economically driven measures increasing the flexibility also result in reduced contributions to the residual load. For this purpose, we conduct a simulative study using historic and projected time series for the German electricity sector. First, Fourier analysis are performed to show that the main oscillation in the electricity price time series has a period length of 12 hr, whereas the renewable generation is primarily characterized by an oscillation with a period length of 24 hr. Second, a generic process model with capabilities for load shiftings is used to evaluate how the fluctuation patterns can be exploited via scheduling optimizations. Most importantly, our results demonstrate that prevalent price fluctuations prevent adequate monetary incentives for providing storage capacities for bridging up to 24 hr, which are desired for reducing the residual load.

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灵活性方面的投资会增强可持续性吗？考虑德国电力部门的模拟研究

当前有关工业需求侧管理的研究主要集中在货币方面。在这里，我们通过评估经济驱动的措施是否增加灵活性来导致对剩余负载的贡献减少而扩展了这种观点。为此，我们使用历史和预计的时间序列对德国电力部门进行了模拟研究。首先，进行傅立叶分析以显示电价时间序列中的主要振荡具有12小时的周期长度，而可再生能源发电的主要特征是具有24小时的周期长度的振荡。其次，使用具有负载转移功能的通用过程模型来评估如何通过调度优化来利用波动模式。最重要的是，