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ELECTRIC BOILERS IN DISTRICT HEATING SYSTEMS A comparative study of the Scandinavian market conditions SAEE-Conference, Luleå August 2016 Emilie Rosenlund Soysal, Ole Jess Olsen, Klaus Skytte, Daniel Møller Sneum, EER, DTU Management Engineering, DK Eli Sandberg, NMBU Ecology and Natural Resource Management, NO

Agenda • Introduction • Flexibility and electric boilers in Scandinavia • District heating technologies • Marginal cost of operation • Electric boilers • Competitive technologies • Comparing marginal cost within each country • Hours of operation • Summing-up

Introduction Electric boilers and flexibility • Integration of VRE – local and/or regional solution? • Electric boilers as flexibility resource 80 Hourly spot prices 70 60 Turn off! 50 40 30 20 Turn on! 10 0

Introduction Electric boilers in Scandinavia Too high • Deployment fairly small • <1% in Denmark and Sweden Long term • 13% in Norway marginal costs Number of Taxes and Short term operating hours tariffs marginal costs This study compares the short term marginal costs of operation, including taxes and tariffs, in the in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and identifies the number of feasible operating hours given the current electricity market prices.

District heating technologies 1/2 PJ 200 176 180 Other (heat-only, electric 160 heating) 140 Direct renewable (biomass 120 105,5 heat-only boilers) 100 Recycled heat (CHP heat, 80 waste heat, heat pumps) 60 Total district heating sales 40 16,9 (2013) 20 0 Denmark Norway Sweden Source: Euroheat 2015 • Current technology and fuel mix in DH-system differs between the three countries.

District heating technologies 2/2 Technologies used for cost calculation are standard plants taken from the Danish Energy Agency’s technology catalogue Electric Biomass Biomass Natural gas Natural gas boiler CHP HO CHP HO Wood chip Wood chip Gas turbine, fired fired Gas fired E lectric combined medium district district Type cycle (back- boiler, 10 kV steam heating heating boiler pressure) turbine boiler Capacity (MW 1 - 25 20 - 100 1 - 12 10 - 100 0.5 - 10 heat) 99% 93% 108% 82% 97% Total efficiency 29% 41% • Heat efficiency 64% 41% • Electric efficiency Nominal 0.06-0.09 1.2 0.5-1.1 1.1-1.6 0.07-0.13 investment (EUR/MW heat)

Marginal cost of operation Electric boilers EUR/MWh heat Denmark Norway Sweden Electricity tax 28.42 0.54 31.73 Electricity certificates 0 1.45 2.35 Grid costs 22.65 10.33 4.33 Maintenance 0.5 0.5 0.5 In total, excluding 51.58 12.82 38.91 electricity purchase • Differences in electricity tax • Differences the variable part of the grid cost • Cost of electricity p urchase should be added to ‘total’.

Marginal cost of operation CHP EUR/MWh heat, excluding electricity Denmark Norway Sweden sales Biomass 31.42 33.75 27.32 (1.63) (1.08) (0.03) (E mission taxes) (-8.93) (-7.35) (-7.37) (Electricity support and cost) Natural gas 96.90 83.15 (22.81) (3.34) (Fuel tax) (7.55) (4.02) (CO2 tax and quotas) (1.49) (0.29) (Other emission taxes) • To obtain final marginal cost, deduct sales of electricity. • Not much difference in overall cost for biomass CHP – no tax for biomass based fuels. • Differences in natural gas CHP heat costs mainly due to fuel taxes.

Marginal cost of operation Heat-only EUR/MWh heat Denmark Norway Sweden 22.86 23.31 19.49 Biomass (0.97) (0.64) (0.02) (Emission taxes) 61.73 68.51 Natural gas (28.22) (11.80) (Fuel tax) (6.07) (21.00) (CO2 tax and quotas) (0.17) (0.02) (Other emission taxes) • Not much difference in overall cost of biomass based HO – no tax for biomass based fuels • Not much difference in overall cost of natural gas based HO, however, in DK fuel tax, while in SE CO2-tax.

Comparing marginal cost Denmark 120,00 100,00 Heat price (EUR/MWh) 22,66 Electric boilers 80,00 Biomass CHP 60,00 Biomass HO 10,15 Natural gas CHP 40,00 Natural gas HO 20,00 10.15 22.66 0,00 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 -20,00 Electricity price (EUR/MWh) • Biomass is always cheaper than electric boilers. • Natural gas HO cheaper than CHP

Comparing marginal cost Sweden 120,00 100,00 Electric boilers Heat price (EUR/MWh) 80,00 Biomass CHP 29,60 Biomass HO 60,00 26,51 Natural gas CHP 40,00 Natural gas HO -7.98 -7,98 20,00 26.51 0,00 29.60 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 -20,00 Electricity price (EUR/MWh) • Electric boilers have lower marginal costs than biomass HO and CHP for low power prices • Electric boilers have lower marginal costs than natural gas CHP and HO for most power prices

Comparing marginal cost Norway 120,00 100,00 Heat price (EUR/MWh) 80,00 Electric boilers 60,00 Biomass CHP Biomass HO 40,00 14,40 14.40 9.98 20,00 9,98 0,00 -20 -10 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 -20,00 Electricity price (EUR/MWh) • Electric boilers have lower marginal costs than biomass HO and CHP only for low power prices

Electric boilers’ operating hours Spot market Biomass Biomass Natural gas Natural gas Elspot, 2014-2015 CHP HO CHP HO Denmark 0.1% 0.0% 26.2% 6.9% Norway 13.8% 7.0% - - Sweden 0.0% 0.0% 46.6% 62.7% Percentage of hours in which the electric boiler has lower marginal cost of operation than the respective technology. Calculated on the basis of 2014 and 2015, and as an average over each country’s bidding areas.

Summing-up • Current taxation level on electricity consumption of electric boilers varies greatly across the Scandinavian countries and influences the possible utilization of electric boilers in the DH systems. • Differences in taxation are reflected in lower marginal cost of operation in Norway and Sweden than in Denmark – however, taxes and tariffs for competitive technologies are also different. • Biomass installations have lower marginal costs than electric boilers in Denmark and Sweden – but not always in Norway. • Electric boilers for peak load or for flexibility? • How many hours are needed for flexibility? • Additional considerations for long term marginal cost: instalment cost, fixed costs and fixed subsidies

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