Eltramod

Electricity Transhipment Model

Model Purpose Main characteristics
  • Fundamental system analysis
  • Integration of renewable energy sources (RES) in the European electricity market
  • Flow calculation based on Net Transfer Capacity (NTC)
  • Trade-off between grid and storage expansions
  • Optimal dispatch of power plant capacity
  • Bottom-up electricity market model
  • Temporal resolution of 8760 hours
  • Calculation of the cost-minimal generation dispatch and investments in additional transmission lines and storage facilities
  • Country specific time series of wind and PV feed-in
  • Net Transfer Capacity from ENTOS-E (European Network of Transmission System Operators for electricity)

Exemplary results

Influence of RES feed-in obligation on investments in new grid and storage capacities      

  • Feed-in priority for RES significantly influences investments in NTC and storage capacities
  • Regardless of the presence of feed-in obligation, investments in additional NTC are needed
  • In the midterm grid expansion, rather than storage expansion, is necessary to integrate the increasing RES generation
  • The requirement for additional storage capacity becomes important beyond 2040 when the penetration of RES will reach approx. 80%

RES feed-in obligation

(every unit of available RES needs to be feed-in)

RES curtailment

(the surplus of RES can be curtailed)
   
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Exemplary References

Energy System Analysis Agency (ESA²): Shaping our energy system - combining European modelling expertise, Brüssel, 2013.

Gunkel, D.; Kunz, F.; Müller, T., von Selasinsky, A.; Möst, D.: Storage Investment or Transmission Expansion: How to Facilitate Renewable Energy Integration in Europe?. Tagungsband VDE-Kongress Smart Grid - Intelligente Energieversorgung der Zukunft, 2012.

Müller, T.: Influence of increasing renewable feed-in on the operation of conventional and storage power plants. 1st KIC InnoEnergy Scientist Conference, Leuven, 2012.

Müller, T.; Gunkel, D.; Möst, D.: Renewable curtailment and its impact on grid and storage capacities in 2030, Enerday Conference, Dresden 2013.

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