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Table 3 Overview on simulation results regarding total costs, cost savings, and barriers for all three cases

From: Make or buy: IT-based decision support for grid imbalance settlement in smarter electricity networks

Aggregation level

1

2

3

4

6

8

12

16

24

32

48

96

Base case

Cost [k€]

466

465

470

470

466

458

462

444

437

421

404

415

Model case

Cost [k€]

466

370

331

308

299

286

278

277

274

281

315

365

Savings [k€]

0

95

139

162

167

172

184

167

163

140

88

50

Savings [%]

0

20

30

35

36

38

40

38

37

33

22

12

Neg. barrier

0

0

40

0

10

10

40

50

100

100

100

100

Pos. barrier

0

− 100

− 100

− 200

− 300

− 600

− 1100

− 1200

− 1200

− 1200

− 1200

− 1200

Real−time case

Cost [k€]

272

266

265

261

268

261

266

269

269

278

316

365

Savings [k€]

193

199

205

209

198

198

196

175

168

143

88

50

Savings [%]

42

43

44

44

42

43

42

39

38

34

22

12

Neg. barrier

0

0

0

0

10

20

40

50

100

100

100

100

Pos. barrier

− 100

− 100

− 100

− 200

− 300

− 700

− 1200

− 1200

− 1200

− 1200

− 1200

− 1200

Perfect Inf. case

Cost [k€]

466

− 445

− 650

− 734

− 446

− 558

− 412

− 435

− 394

− 414

− 362

− 284