AutRES100 - Highly resolved modeling of the power system with a high share of renewables - towards 100 % renewable power in Austria

01.04.2010 - 31.01.2013
Research funding project
The fundamental and yet not satisfactorily answered question is: How to adapt the European power system for integrating a high share of intermittent renewable electricity? In the framework of the project technically and economically feasible ways to achieve a 100% renewable power supply in Austria, and a high share in Europe, are investigated. The project AutRES100 addresses this question and the following aspects: • How to guarantee operationally and economically the system reliability and supply security? • What are the technically and economically feasible ways for balancing power provision? • Which adjustments are needed for the historically grown power plant portfolios? • What is the future role of pumped hydro storage and other advanced electricity storage concepts? • What is the importance of future electricity grid extensions? • What is the possible role of flexible and intelligent demand side options (e-mobility, heating, cooling, smart grid)? • Which options are provided by the interconnected European transmission grid? • Which influence does the expected climate change have on the future power system design for integrating a high share of renewable power sources? For answering all these interrelated questions a highly resolved power system investment planning and supply security optimization model is developed. The model is designed with hourly resolution and includes a detailed modeling of the variable renewables (hydro, wind and solar), of the pumped hydro and other storage options, of the conventional power plants, of the transmission grid and of possible future intelligent load response options (e-mobility, heating, cooling, smart grid). Investments and supply security are endogenously optimized within the model. In order to test the design of the future power system for a high share of intermittent renewables, high resolution weather data (e.g. solar irradiance, wind speed) is used. Optimal transition pathways to a 100% renewable power supply for Austria and a high share of renewables in all Europe are developed considering the past weather and including possible future climate change effects. AutRES100 develops robust policy recommendations defining the optimal path way to a 100% renewable power supply in Austria. chen kann.

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Grant funds

  • FFG - Österr. Forschungsförderungs- gesellschaft mbH (National) Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Research focus

  • Climate Neutral, Renewable and Conventional Energy Supply Systems: 100%

Keywords

GermanEnglish
EinsatzoptimierungUnit commitment optimization
Wasserkrafthydro power
Modellierungmodeling
ErneuerbareRenewables
Stromsystempower system
EnergiewirtschaftEnergy economics
PhotovoltaikPhotovoltaics
SolarSolar
WindWind power
IntegrationIntegration
InvestitionsplanungInvestment planning
SpeicherStorage
Elektromobilitätelectro mobility

External partner

  • Verbund Austrian Hydro Power AG
  • Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik
  • Österreichische Elektrizitätswirtschafts-Aktiengesellschaft (Verbund)
  • Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz

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