The Renewable Energy and Load Management (REALM) project is a feasibility study to assess the capacity of customers to develop load flexibility in combination with renewable energy: how can electricity customers optimise and integrate variable renewable energy, battery and thermal storage, demand-controls and energy efficiency to create low-cost demand-side flexibility.
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High daytime loads and increasing automation in the manufacturing industry provide opportunites for load flexibility. A focus on services to the manufacturing process such as heating or cooling, or compressed air can yield storage elements already in situ in many manufacturing settings.