We analyze optimal infrastructure investments for the integration of variable renewables in the German electricity system. Using a combined dispatch, transmission, and investment model, we compare four scenarios with different investment options, including gas-fired power plants, pumped hydro storage and transmission lines. In a reference scenario of the year 2024, geographically optimized investments ...
We investigate the impact that different technical and operational model representations for hydroelectric reservoir and pumped storage power plants have on the market dispatch and annual generation patterns in a techno-economic electricity sector model. The ‘detailed’ model explicitly accounts for individual plant and reservoir capacity limitations, hydraulic interconnections within cascaded systems, ...
For the future development of the European electricity system, renewable generation is assigned a dominant role with the underlying aim to reduce the carbon intensity. This has direct implications for conventional, dispatchable generation capacities and their future development. The objective of this paper is to investigate the investments in conventional generation technologies for a given renewable ...
The deployment of battery-powered electric bus systems within the public transportation sector plays an important role toincrease the energy efficiency and to abate emissions. Raising attention is given to bus systems comprising fast -charging technology.This concept requires a comprehensive infrastructure to equip bus routes with charging points. The number of charging points in turnhas significant ...