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Stathis Peteves

Head of Unit,

Energy Technology Policy Outlook

Joint Research Centre - Institute for Energy and Transport

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/about/iet

http://setis.ec.europa.eu/

Introduction to the Workshop "Addressing Flexibility in Energy System Models"

Petten, December 4-5, 2014

Who we are?

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The JRC inside the European Commission

Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Education, Culture, Youth &

Sport

President Jean-Claude Juncker 28 Commission Members

Director Giovanni F. De Santi JRC Institute for Energy and Transport

Director-General Vladimír Šucha Joint Research Centre

7 JRC Institutes

• Renewable energy

• Sustainable and safe nuclear energy

• Energy security, system and markets

• Energy technologies modelling and

assessment

• Alternative fuels

• Hydrogen and fuel cells

• Sustainable transport

• Energy efficiency

Key scientific activities

Energy Technology Policy Outlook Unit Mission

Support the development and assess the impact of energy technology innovation on the transition to a low carbon society, in support of the energy, transport, industrial and innovation policies of the EU.

Key activities

• Technology assessment (techno-socio-economics)

• Modelling of technologies, sectors and the energy system

• Reference technology databases

• Monitoring of technological innovation and of various sectors

Themes

Low-carbon technologies (CCS, wind, marine, geothermal, energy storage), energy intensive industry, e-mobility, critical materials, innovation capacities

Policies

Energy Technology, Research & Innovation, Industry, Transport, Eco-Innovation

The Workshop

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Why flexibility as the ‘theme’

Future energy systems will be forced to become increasingly flexible in order to cope with the challenges of integrating higher shares of renewable energy sources

Policy makers need to consider issues such as the effects of intermittent energy sources on the reliability and adequacy of the energy system, the impacts of rules governing the curtailment or storage of energy, or how much backup dispatchable capacity may be required to guarantee that energy demand is safely met

How to address properly these issues in energy system models?

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Goals of the Workshop: learn from each other

To gather (the) experts from modelling teams currently dealing with these problems from different perspectives, ranging from energy system-wide to detailed sectoral energy models

To openly share and compare modelling approaches and results

To identify gaps and potential solutions, preferably in a broadly consensual way

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Expected outcomes

A JRC Technical report to be published in 2015:

• based on your contributions -abstracts and slides,

• with a summary of the discussions, &

• a set of methodological recommendations for modelling flexibility

( to be reviewed and commented by all )

A possible follow-up?

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Organization of the workshop

Chatham house rules: free discussion!

• As informal as possible

• 30-minute long presentations

• Brief questions and answers during/after each presentation

• Broader discussions at the end of each session

• If time allows, additional presentations not foreseen in the agenda!

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Agenda Dec. 4

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December 4th

Introduction to

flexibility issues and

modelling-related

challenges

09:00 09:30

Introduction to the JRC-IET and the workshop (S. Peteves, IET)

09:30

10:00

Review of flexibility-related issues in energy system models (J. Dillon,

UCD and UCC)

10:00

10:30 Model coupling across scales (H. Heinrichs, Jülich)

10:30

11:00 Coffee break

11:00

11:30

Challenges of representing electricity system flexibility in energy system

models (V. Silva, EDF)

11:30

12:00

Key challenges in our work on modelling future flexible energy systems (F.

Martinsson, IVL)

12:00

13:00 Discussion

13:00

14:00 Lunch break

Addressing flexibility:

linking energy system

models and sectoral

energy models

14:00

14:30

Holistic approaches in addressing flexibility in energy system modelling (T.

Koljonen, VTT)

14:30

15:00 Coupling TIMES PanEU to E2M2s (T. Kober, ECN)

15:00

15:30 Coffee break

15:30

16:00 Coupling TIMES with power system models (K. Poncelet, KUL)

16:00

16:30

Flexibility in JRC-EU-TIMES and DISPASET (W. Nijs, A. Zucker, I.

Hidalgo, IET)

16:30

17:30 Discussion

19:30

21:30 Dinner at Nero restaurant

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December 5th

Modelling the

integration of high

shares of variable

renewable energy

sources

09:00 09:30

Renewable energy options and strategies in energy plans (A. Miketa,

IRENA)

09:30

10:00 Economic aspects of renewable energy sources (L. Hirth, PIK)

10:00

10:30

Simplified flexibility parameters for evaluating renewable integration (P.

Denholm, NREL)

10:30

11:00 Coffee break

11:00

11:30 Renewables and storage in ETP-TIMES (U. Remme, IEA)

11:30

12:00

Integrating renewable energies - estimating needs for flexibility,

competition of technologies and the impact of grid extensions (F.

Borggrefe, DLR)

12:00

13:00 Discussion

13:00

14:00 Lunch break

Modelling flexibility

needs in power system

models

14:00

14:30

Modelling flexibility needs in the European power system with

DIMENSION and MORE (A. Knaut, EWI)

14:30

15:00

Storage, grid, and the cycling behaviour of thermal units: PERSEUS-NET-

ESS/TS (S. Babrowski, KIT)

15:00

15:30 Coffee break

15:30

16:00

Whole-system approach to assessing the value of flexible technologies and

products in supporting cost effective integration of renewables (G. Strbac,

ICL)

16:00

16:30

Use of residual load curves to study the high penetration of renewables in

TIMES-Greece (G. Giannakidis, CRES)

Closure 16:30

17:30 Conclusions of the workshop

Agenda Dec. 5

Thank you!

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