JRC-Idees 2015

Overcoming the central planner approach – Bilevel optimization of the European energy transition

“… 47 investment & operating costs, fuel prices, and construction years of existing electricity generation capacities; lifetimes and capacity factors of conventional technologies POTEnCIA (JRC) European Commission, 48 , Mantzos et al. 49 maximum capacities ENSPRESO (JRC) Ruiz et al 50 capacity factors of volatile renewable electricity generation technologies EMHIRES (JRC) Gonzalez Aparicio et al. 27 Efficiencies of conventional electricity generation technologies Eurostat Eurostat 51 net-transfer capacities for cross-border transmission ENTSO-E ENTSO-E 52 electricity demands ENTSO-E ENTSO-E 53 …”

“…In the optimization problem, we constrain the operational impacts in line with the European target to achieve a carbon-neutral electricity system by 2050. 55 The emission limit for 2015 is determined based on the IDEES 2015 database 47 and is set to the total emissions of all countries included in this study in the same year. The total emission limits fall linearly to 0 by 2050 in both centralized and decentralized models.…”