Title: Recap: Energy System

Fill in the missing words

Q: Energy [...] provide the grounds to decision making regarding which plant to use and in which magnitude.
A: prices/forecasts

Multiple Choice

Q: Which of the following are NOT energy carriers?
- Battery (correct)
- Grid (correct)
- Electricity
- Oil

Q: In the Swiss energy system, which of the following sources could provide seasonal flexibility? (Hint: check the flexibity provider project conducted with the Nexus-e platform)
- Imports and exports (correct)
- Hydro dams (correct)
- Hydro pumps
- PV batteries
- Demand side management

Q: Which of the following describes the concept of energy hub best?
- An energy hub is an infrastructure that hosts and interlinks different energy carriers, similar to a substation in power systems.
- An energy hub is a multi-carrier energy system consisting of multiple energy conversion, storage and/or network technologies, and characterized by some degree of local control. (correct)
- An energy hub operates on a building scale.
- Energy hubs are particularly useful to accurately and promptly dispatch energy supply to match the demand, which is essential to operate power generators with large turbine inertia.