Bringing Heat Pump Flexibility to Life

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Recording of Tuesday, May 06, 2025 | The smarter E Europe Conferences 2025 | Conference Program | Language: English | Duration: 8:04 .

Viessmann's Janosch Balke Explores the Future of Heat Pump Flexibility and Overcoming Industry Challenges

Janosch Balke, a product manager at Viessmann Climate Solutions, discusses the significance of heat pumps in enhancing energy flexibility. Heat pumps are crucial as they provide decentralized flexibility comparable to traditional power plants and will play an increasingly significant role over the next two decades alongside electric vehicles and home batteries. The first example presented is implicit flexibility, where systems react to dynamic electricity prices through optimization models that maximize savings for customers using their own tariffs or those from providers like Octopus Energy. Despite challenges such as limited adoption of smart meters and dynamic tariffs in Germany (only 1-3% usage), solutions like the "dynamic assistant" aim to optimize based on available data. The second example involves explicit flexibility with Viessmann's Flex Modus pilot project supporting grid operators by providing predicted power baselines and managing consumption flexibly within grids—a process hindered by regulatory barriers due to lack of standardization across Europe despite existing directives allowing load aggregation under specific conditions.

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Speaker

Janosch Balke
Product Manager Energy Service
Viessmann Climate Solutions
Germany

Talk of session: Smart Electrification of Demand

While variable renewable electricity generation is increasing, its cost-effective integration in the energy system remains a challenge. The electrification of consumption, from households to industries, has stagnated at around 23% across Europe. The electrification of demand could place unnecessary strain on the system if it is not made more flexible. To support an increasingly intermittent energy system, peaks in electricity consumption must be avoided and electrified consumers rewarded for shifting demand to another time of the day. The session will present solid business models to support the flexible consumption of renewable electricity in homes, buildings and industries.

Further Talks of this session:

Welcome and Introduction

Speaker

Michael Villa
Executive Director
smartEn
Belgium

To Talk

Enabling Smarter, More Flexible Energy Consumption

Speaker

Dr. Michael Schreiber
Head of Flex
Octopus Energy
United Kingdom

Recording of presentation not authorized for publication.

Build Smart Not Hard - Practical Steps From Energy Assets to Markets

Speaker

Tarvo Õng
CEO
Fusebox Energy
Estonia

To Talk

Energy Sharing - Enabling Everyone to Benefit from a Clean Energy Transition

Speaker

José Queirós de Almeida
CEO
Greenvolt Communities
Spain

To Talk

Dynamic Tariffs and Demand Flexibility: a Viewpoint from the Nordics

Speaker

Julien Cossé
Chief Strategy Officer
Nord Pool / Euronext Group
Norway

To Talk

Panel Discussion

To Talk

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