The Innovation Center Shenzhen has developed a solution to enable comprehensive lifecycle planning, design, and techno-economic assessment for complex distributed energy systems. It includes rich pre- and post-processing functions and generic component models and integrates popular meteorological databases and advanced mathematical optimization solvers. Meanwhile, leveraging Siemens Energy's technical expertise in power and industry sectors, as well as its engineers' extensive project experience, the Innovation Center Shenzhen can provide customers with integrated energy system planning and consulting services.
The energy system design solution builds a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model based on the resource, component techno-economic parameters, cost models, historical load profiles, etc. of the project site. With the total annualized cost, or levelized cost, or carbon emissions as the objective, it solves for the optimal solution including components portfolio, capacity configuration, scheduling plan, and economic evaluation results, at any time resolution (e.g., 15 mins or 1 hour) within a user-defined time range (e.g., 8760 hours annually).
This solution provides the following typical component models, covering integrated energy scenarios of electricity, cooling, heating, hydrogen, etc..
- Energy source models, e.g., wind, PV, electricity grid, heating grid.
- Energy storage models, e.g., battery, thermal storage, hydrogen storage.
- Energy conversion models, e.g., electrolyzer, fuel cell, ammonia & methanol synthesis, heat pump, gas turbine.
- Energy sink models, e.g., electric, cooling, heating, hydrogen loads.
