Development of Scenarios for Modelling of Districts' Energy Supply and Analysis of Interdependencies between Energy and ICT

The increasing digital transformation in energy supply systems allows
greater control and possibilities for performance optimization and efficiency.
This is accompanied by increasing complexity of the system, and thus requires
the evaluation of interactions between energy and information and
communication technologies (ICT) involved. One of the goals of the project
“Zukunftslabor Energie” (Future Laboratory “Digitalization Energy”) is to
analyze these interactions in highly integrated digitalized systems for district
energy supply. For this, simulation studies must be conducted to configure
flexibilities. A first step is to define appropriate analysis scenarios. Requirements
for these scenarios, the related models, and one of the considered scenarios are
described in this paper. This allows to discuss the system, its boundaries, its
components, and their interactions. Future research requires an analysis and
discussion of requirement specifications, data collection and treatment, model
construction, model implementation, and model validation.