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1990. Integrated flexible heating and cooling under climate uncertainty in a European energy systems model

Invited abstract in session TC-19: OR in Heating Systems, stream OR in Energy.

Tuesday, 12:30-14:00
Room: 44 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. David Huckebrink
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2. Leonie Sara Plaga
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Abstract

To inform the urgently needed energy transition, models are used to find the optimal design and operation strategy of future energy systems. Since the focus of studies in this field has largely been on the power sector, synergies between coupled sectors have not been sufficiently researched. The integration of heating is important because of three reasons: First, heating is mostly fossil fuelled and offers a large decarbonisation potential. Second, decarbonisation achieved through electrification is a mix of both a burden through increased demand and a benefit through greater flexibility to the power sector. Third, heating and cooling demands depend on the weather, which is subject to uncertainty in the future.
Therefore, we propose an integrated model of the European power system and heating and cooling demands that can be met flexibly while taking different climate projections into account. The methodology can be split into three steps. The first step is data clustering and merging of the European electricity transmission and generation capacities, heating and cooling demands and respective technologies and weather timeseries. Second, heat demands are used to derive aggregated buildings’ multi-node representations. Finally, the model will be optimised using Backbone and decarbonisation is achieved through GHG emissions limits.
The results of this work allow for the electricity and heating sector to be analysed in an integrated fashion and will be publicly available.

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Status: accepted

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