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Grid flexibility is a complicated, dynamic system, and it is nearly impossible to account for all local factors at a global scale. However, increased grid flexibility is critical if we are to derive more than 25 percent of electricity from variable renewable energy sources. The emissions reductions and financial impacts from this solution are counted in the variable renewable solutions that could not reach their full potential without it and so are not represented here.
Every electric power system has some degree of flexibility to provide a buffer between supply and demand. Adding variable renewable energy to a system increases the need for flexibility. Fortunately, many means of providing it are inexpensive or have collateral benefits that offset their cost.
Adoption of the Grid Flexibility solution is driven by incorporation of variable renewable energy into the electric grid, the age of existing infrastructure and its ability to manage two-way power flows, and the need to make the grid more resilient in the face of increasing natural disasters. The practices and technologies that make the grid more flexible are challenging to quantify in a meaningful way, since many intertwined factors contribute to a more flexible grid. Metrics for this quantification are being developed (e.g., Cochran et al., 2014), though this solution has not been modeled.
Grid flexibility tools that rely on changes in law, behavior, and standards only reduce carbon dioxide emissions insofar as they increase the penetration of variable renewable sources of electricity generation.
Barriers to adoption of grid flexibility include public objection to new infrastructure such as transmission lines; reluctance on the part of regulated utilities to share data about system needs with unregulated competitors; privacy issues with regard to two-way communications between households and utilities; and the slow pace of changing regulations, as regulators face the challenge of encouraging innovation that benefits the system while protecting the interests of all ratepayers.
Three trends stand out that will accelerate adoption of grid flexibility. The first relates to data availability, communication, and processing. As information technology has become more and more accessible, available, and cost effective, it has begun to transform the way electricity is metered, billed, and valued, and made way for a host of new services. Information and communication technologies give utilities and energy providers new opportunities to optimize energy systems management, which in turn enables new business models that promote investment in variable renewable energy sources and the infrastructure to integrate them. What began as an investment in automated meter reading in the 1990s has evolved into advanced metering infrastructure, which is expanding to include the exchange of many kinds of grid data over multiple communication networks).
The second trend relates to energy storage and is discussed in detail in the Utility Scale Energy Storage and Distributed Energy Storage solutions. Accelerated advancement beginning around 2010 and recent rapid declines in costs have made lithium ion batteries increasingly useful and cost-effective.
Better methods of quantifying costs and benefits of grid flexibility would enable policymakers, regulators, and market operators to optimize solutions for integrating variable renewable energy sources into the grid.
Many challenges limit the formulation of antibodies as high-concentration liquid dosage forms including elevated solution viscosity, decreased physical stability, and in some cases, liquid-liquid phase separation. In this work, an IgG1 monoclonal antibody (mAb-J), which undergoes concentration-dependent reversible self-association (RSA), is characterized in the presence of 4 amino acids (Arg, Lys, Asp, Glu) and NaCl using biophysical techniques and hydrogen exchange-mass spectrometry. The 5 additives disrupt RSA, prevent phase separation, and reduce solution viscosity to varying extents. These excipients also cause decreased turbidity, reduced average hydrodynamic diameter, and increased relative solubility of mAb-J in solution. The RSA disrupting efficacy of the positively charged amino acids is greater than either negatively charged amino acids or NaCl. As measured by hydrogen exchange-mass spectrometry, anionic excipients induced more alterations of mAb-J backbone dynamics at pH 6.0, and weak Fab-Fab interactions likely remained with the addition of either cationic or anionic excipients at high protein concentrations. Along with a companion paper examining a different mAb with a different molecular mechanism of RSA, these results are discussed in the context of various excipient strategies to disrupt protein-protein interactions to formulate mAbs at high protein concentrations with good stability profiles and favorable pharmaceutical properties for subcutaneous administration.
DNA nanotechnology enables the programmed synthesis of intricate nanometer-scale structures for diverse applications in materials and biological science. Precise control over the 3D solution shape and mechanical flexibility of target designs is important to achieve desired functionality. Because experimental validation of designed nanostructures is time-consuming and cost-intensive, predictive physical models of nanostructure shape and flexibility have the capacity to enhance dramatically the design process. Here, we significantly extend and experimentally validate a computational modeling framework for DNA origami previously presented as CanDo [Castro,C.E., Kilchherr,F., Kim,D.-N., Shiao,E.L., Wauer,T., Wortmann,P., Bathe,M., Dietz,H. (2011) A primer to scaffolded DNA origami. Nat. Meth., 8, 221-229.]. 3D solution shape and flexibility are predicted from basepair connectivity maps now accounting for nicks in the DNA double helix, entropic elasticity of single-stranded DNA, and distant crossovers required to model wireframe structures, in addition to previous modeling (Castro,C.E., et al.) that accounted only for the canonical twist, bend and stretch stiffness of double-helical DNA domains. Systematic experimental validation of nanostructure flexibility mediated by internal crossover density probed using a 32-helix DNA bundle demonstrates for the first time that our model not only predicts the 3D solution shape of complex DNA nanostructures but also their mechanical flexibility. Thus, our model represents an important advance in the quantitative understanding of DNA-based nanostructure shape and flexibility, and we anticipate that this model will increase significantly the number and variety of synthetic nanostructures designed using nucleic acids.
Stretching can improve your flexibility. Moving more freely will make it easier for you to reach down to tie your shoes or look over your shoulder when you back your car out of the driveway. Flexibility exercises include:
The opportunities to leverage energy flexibility are growing as the grid evolves. Grid operators are providing more financial incentives to encourage energy users to provide the flexibility needed to help them tackle these new challenges.
Energy flexibility is a solution that helps grid operators balance supply and demand on the demand side, rather than adding more generation on the supply side. When stress on the grid is high, instead of increasing electricity supply from the grid to meet consumer demand, grid operators instead lean on energy users to reduce their demand for electricity, ensuring supply-demand balance. To incentivize energy users to provide this needed energy flexibility, grid operators offer lucrative payments (in the form of demand response payments) or bill savings for organizations that can reduce or shift their energy use away from hours of highest stress on the local electricity grid.
Grid operators are most in need of flexibility when supply and demand struggle to meet. At times like these, there are a variety of ways that grid operators encourage customers to shift the time they use energy. In a typical day, for instance, many grid operators use time-of-use rates to charge customers more for using energy at times of high grid-wide demand. On high-demand days, or when there are frequency imbalances, demand response is leveraged to ensure supply and demand remain balanced. The utilities pay customers who are willing to reduce or modify their usage for a short period of time to maintain balance while reducing costs.
Energy flexibility is lucrative for individual organizations, essential for grid operators, and beneficial for the planet. But many organizations may still hesitate because they think that capitalizing on flexibility will be too disruptive to their operations. Some may not know if they have flexibility they can leverage. And some may not even know where to start.
Flexibility Solutions for High-Renewable Energy Systems, a new pair of reports published today by BloombergNEF in partnership with Statkraft and Eaton, explores the possibilities for solving the power system flexibility challenge in the U.K. and Germany. The studies analyse the potential contributions of energy storage, demand response, flexible electric vehicle charging and interconnections to Nordic hydro in enabling the renewable energy transition.
New forms of flexibility are key to an affordable, renewables-led power system. Without energy storage, smart-charging electric vehicles, demand response and interconnectors, the energy transition risks proceeding on a suboptimal path, with a power system reliant on fossil backup and oversized renewables capacity that will come at a higher cost.
However, while in the U.K. new sources of flexibility mainly help to displace fossil backup capacity, that is not always the case in Germany, where flexibility can support cheap, inflexible coal generation in some scenarios. This highlights the importance of addressing coal generation in Germany through policy action, to ensure a low-carbon transition.
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