The Long-Term Power System Evolution - First Optimisation Results

The volatile character of the renewable generation plus the fluctuating demand, implicate challenges regarding a stable operation of the power system. To balance generation and demand on temporal and spatial basis, flexibility is required, which can be supplied by different sources, like interconnection of heat and electricity sector, increased grid exchange capacities between generation and demand regions or backup and storage power capacities of different sizes and time scales. Different optimisation approaches for future energy scenarios have already been investigated before by numerous researchers.