Objective
The target of this IRP-project will be to explore the characteristics of the Austrian situation, particularly the following aspects:
- the mix of vertically integrated and disintegrated utilities;
- the thermo-hydraulic electricity generating system;
- combination utilities on the distribution level.
The main objectives of the project include the following:
1. Develop tools that provide for the evaluation of supply and demand options in an integrated manner thereby using current generation expansion and produc-tion planning analytical tools;
2. Gather lacking load data and market research data to estimate end-use con-sumption, load profiles and the impacts of DSM programmes;
3. Identify concrete options of an integrated resource plan and prepare programmes for realising these options;
4. Investigate the advantages and disadvantages of IRP for various levels of energy supply and to explore possible opportunities for cooperation to share benefits and costs of DSM programmes;
Status of the project
The official start of the project was at the 27th of November 1995 with a kick-off workshop which brought together the more than 40 staff members from utilities and consultants who are involved in the project. Besides of bringing all the different people together the aim of the workshop was to create a common understanding on the project's objectives and tasks and to specify the project's work programme as well as to constitute the working groups. Altogether six working groups have been formed: Situation analysis, forecast, supply-side optimisation, demand-side options, IRP and pilot projects.
In the meantime
- every working group specified its work programme which went together with a tuning of the necessary co-operation between the different working groups and a refinement of the time schedule;
- the IRP process has been specified, including the constraints for optimisation and simu-lation for an integrated resource plan, the time frame, the limits of the system, the degree of detail for data collection, etc.;
- three different scenarios for optimisation have been defined varying by different possible developments of energy prices;
- the forecast on the development of energy consumption and load (for electricity, gas and district heating) until the year 2010 has been put together, for every utility involved as well as for Austria as a whole;
- the status of current activities on the supply side as well as on the demand-side, of the models used for resource planning, of the current framework conditions, etc. has been ascertained;
- a common scheme for the collection of cost data of the different resource options has been agreed upon; and
- the framework for the collection of supply-side and demand-side resources has been de-veloped.
Next steps
As one of the next steps an in-depth analysis of load data is planned which should provide additional information on the composition of load curves with respect to the different uses of energy, in the household sector as well as in the industrial, commercial and service sector. Results are expected until the end of that year.
The second major task for the next months is the setup and modification of a computer tool to support the IRP optimisation and simulation process.
Furthermore, special emphasis will be put on data collection on supply side options as well as on demand side options.
Mid-term status report
The mid-term status report will be submitted to the European Commission, DG XVII, at the end of October 1996.
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1090 Vienna
Austria