Evaluating Electric Vehicle and Heat Pump Flexibility Potential: Linking Technology, Economics, Regulation, Behaviour and Policy

Regina Hemm; Viktoria Illyés; Bin Hu; Ivan Mariuzzo; Daniel Schwabeneder; Tara Esterl

doi:10.47568/1OR149

Evaluating Electric Vehicle and Heat Pump Flexibility Potential: Linking Technology, Economics, Regulation, Behaviour and Policy

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This report, prepared by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) for the Users TCP and 4E TCP/EDNA Platform, part of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme, explores how flexibility can be understood, quantified, and enabled in practice. It introduces a high-level model that links technical capabilities, economic drivers, behavioural aspects, and policy frameworks to estimate the overall flexibility potential of distributed assets. Austria served as the pilot country for applying this model, focusing on heat pumps and electric vehicles as representative examples of technologies with significant technical potential.

Original language	English
Number of pages	50
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.47568/1OR149
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2025

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Name	This publication was commissioned by the User-Centred Energy Systems (Users TCP) and the Efficient, Demand Flexible Networked Appliances (EDNA) Platform of the Energy Efficiency End-use Equipment (4E TCP) – part of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme. It was authored by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT).
Publisher	IEA Technology Collaboration Programme

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Flexibility and Business Models

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Flexibility Potentials
Electric vehicles
Heat Pump

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Hemm, R., Illyés, V., Hu, B., Mariuzzo, I., Schwabeneder, D., & Esterl, T. (2025). Evaluating Electric Vehicle and Heat Pump Flexibility Potential: Linking Technology, Economics, Regulation, Behaviour and Policy. (This publication was commissioned by the User-Centred Energy Systems (Users TCP) and the Efficient, Demand Flexible Networked Appliances (EDNA) Platform of the Energy Efficiency End-use Equipment (4E TCP) – part of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme. It was authored by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT).). https://doi.org/10.47568/1OR149

Hemm, Regina ; Illyés, Viktoria ; Hu, Bin et al. / Evaluating Electric Vehicle and Heat Pump Flexibility Potential: Linking Technology, Economics, Regulation, Behaviour and Policy. 2025. 50 p. (This publication was commissioned by the User-Centred Energy Systems (Users TCP) and the Efficient, Demand Flexible Networked Appliances (EDNA) Platform of the Energy Efficiency End-use Equipment (4E TCP) – part of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme. It was authored by the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT).).

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