Journal articleAuthors : Wolf-Peter, Schill (2020)
Using electricity for heating can contribute to decarbonization and provide flexibility to integrate variable renewable
energy. We analyze the case of electric storage heaters in German 2030 scenarios with an open-source
electricity sector model. We find that flexible electric heaters generally increase the use of generation technologies
with low variable costs, which are not necessarily renewables. Yet making customary night-time storage
heaters temporal... 
