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Load-shedding in French industrial production units - Public report - 2024
The ALLICE Alliance has published a new public report on industrial load shedding. Despite significant benefits, such as improving grid reliability and reducing CO2 emissions, industrial load shedding has been slow to develop. For what reasons? How can it be put into practice? What are the benefits of load shedding for industrial users? This new four-part public report provides an overview of industrial load shedding in France.
Load shedding is defined as a means of flexibility that improves the reliability of electricity networks and helps to reduce CO2 emissions.
The electricity network requires a permanent "real-time" balance between electricity production and consumption in order to ensure a high quality of electricity supply and to avoid the risk of blackouts. Load shedding is the process of reducing consumer demand for electricity for a defined period of time in response to an external signal (e.g. a request from the network operator or a price signal). Load shedding is therefore one of the solutions to manage network imbalances.
The content of this public report is based on the complete study "Load shedding industrial processes" reserved for members, and published in 2024.
definition of industrial load shedding
Load shedding is defined as a means of flexibility that improves the reliability of electricity networks and helps to reduce CO2 emissions.
The electricity network requires a permanent "real-time" balance between electricity production and consumption in order to ensure a high quality of electricity supply and to avoid the risk of blackouts. Load shedding is the process of reducing consumer demand for electricity for a defined period of time in response to an external signal (e.g. a request from the network operator or a price signal). Load shedding is therefore one of the solutions to manage network imbalances.
The content of this public report is based on the complete study "Load shedding industrial processes" reserved for members, and published in 2024.
A 4-part report to understand the challenges of industrial load shedding
- Industrial load shedding, a more exploitable means of flexibility in France: The aim of this first part is to give an overview of industrial load shedding in France: objectives, exploitable resources, remuneration levels, etc.
- The load shedding value chain and its operational implementation: The second part presents the actors involved in the load shedding value chain and the process of implementing load shedding at an industrial site.
- Technical and economic barriers that need to be overcome to maximise the potential: This section lists and details 7 barriers to implementing load shedding for industry.
- Methods, tools and recommendations for industrial players in load shedding: In this final section, several situations are presented, along with the associated decision making methods.