Energy System Analysis Agency (ESA²)
Energy System Analysis (ESA²)
Objective
The Energy System Analysis Agency (ESA²) is an independent consortium of well-established and renowned universities and research institutions from Sweden, Poland, Belgium, France and Germany. It is part of KIC InnoEnergy created under the leadership of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology.
The ESA² consortium combines a high variety of competences in different fields of energy system modeling. Partners of various research fields, such as energy system analysis or life cycle assessment, are involved. Combining these competences allow an in-depth analysis for several research questions. Due to the different models with their corresponding focus ESA² provides cross sectoral research on different regional levels along the whole energy value chain. Various models can be coupled and/or selected to meet the specific requirements of different research questions. A common database was created to facilitate the model coupling.
ESA² is aimed to be an independent operating agency providing qualified scientific based decision support for ministries, the European Union or companies in the field of energy and environmental policy.
Contribution of the Chair of Energy Economics
The Chair of Energy Economics analyses the European Electricity Market. For this purpose we mainly use the bottom-up European Electricity market model ELTRAMOD. The focus of our previous researches was the trade-off between storage and network expansions. We analysed the necessity of additional storage and net transfer capacities (NTC) in Europe until 2050 based on various scenarios. Two options were considered: An energy system with feed-in obligation of renewable energy and no feed-in obligation. The results of this study have been published in the report „Shaping our energy system – combining European modeling expertise“.
Further researches will focus on demand side management (DSM) and its contribution to grid integration of the increasing share of renewable feed-in. Additionally we will analyse, whether DSM leads to a reduction of storage and grid requirements.
Project Initiator
KIC InnoEnergy, European Institute of Innovation & Technology (www.kicinnoenergy.com), Ministry of Science, Research and Art of Baden-Württemberg
Runtime
October 2010 - November 2013