Barriers to residential demand response in Belgium and the Netherlands

Demand response can be a valuable tool to increase the flexibility of the grid. With an increase in renewable generation and distributed energy resources, it can be used to match demand more closely with supply, so renewable energy can be used when available. Demand response has already been successfully implemented in industry and more and more commercial buildings, but residential assets seem to be lagging behind. Projects in residential demand response remain small-scale and do not tend to leave the research environment. The research done in this thesis identifies the main reason why, in th... Mehr ...