4 papers
Counter-intuitive behaviour of energy system models under CO2 caps and prices
Juliane Weber, Heidi Ursula Heinrichs, Bastian Gillessen +4
The mitigation of climate change requires a fundamental transition of the energy system. Affordability, reliability and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions constitute central…
Performing energy modelling exercises in a transparent way the issue of data quality in power plant databases
Fabian Gotzens, Heidi Heinrichs, Jonas Hörsch +1
In energy modelling, open data and open source code can help enhance traceability and reproducibility of model exercises which contribute to facilitate controversial debates and im…
Flow-based analysis of storage usage in a low-carbon European electricity scenario
Bo Tranberg, Mirko Schäfer, Tom Brown +2
The application of the flow tracing method to power flows in and out of storage units allows to analyse the usage of this technology option in large-scale interconnected electricit…
PyPSA-Eur: An Open Optimisation Model of the European Transmission System
Jonas Hörsch, Fabian Hofmann, David Schlachtberger +1
PyPSA-Eur, the first open model dataset of the European power system at the transmission network level to cover the full ENTSO-E area, is presented. It contains 6001 lines (alterna…