Scheduling Strategy for Industrial Energy Flexibility and Self-consumption

The transition towards climate neutrality profoundly affects the industrial sector. In Germany, industry presently accounts for approximately 29 % of final energy consumption, primarily for process heat provision, with only a small fraction supplied by renewables. Industrial energy flexibility emerges as a key solution for integrating renewables, decarbonizing the industrial sector, and reducing production costs. This paper proposes an energy management strategy for scheduling industrial energy flexibility explicitly considering multiple energy carriers and prioritizing self-consumption. Results indicate that integrating self-consumption goals into the optimization process leads to significant improvements in CO2 emissions without imposing energy cost disadvantages.