Demand-Side-Management with heat pumps for single family houses

The dynamic expansion of renewable energy production, especially solar and wind power, will accelerate the transformation process in the energy sector. In this context, the fluctuating supply of electricity based on solar and wind power units should be smoothed out to guarantee the grid stability. For this purpose, Demand Side Management (DSM) and intelligent storage technologies are key technologies that make it possible to keep the balance of supply and demand. The objective of this study is to evaluate the fraction of residential heat demand which can be expected to be covered by using electric heat pumps coupled with an under-floor heating system as variable loads in the context of DSM