Low-carbon benefits analysis of energy-intensive industrial demand response resources for ancillary services

As a major CO2 emission source, the low-carbon development of the power sector requires the sector’s own efforts and the cooperation with other industries, especially in the context of rapid development of renewable generation technologies. The industrial demand response resources (IDRR) will be helpful to improve wind power penetration and bring low-carbon benefits if they are utilized to provide ancillary services (AS) for the power system. In this paper, demand response (DR) characteristics of industrial users are firstly analyzed according to their production process and electricity consumption distribution. In order to have an in-depth study of the response mechanism of industrial loads to provide AS, cement and aluminum smelter are selected as two typical IDRR, and the AS type they provided and response mechanism are analyzed. Based on the data of these two industries in certain provinces of China, low-carbon benefits considering IDRR to provide AS are analyzed.