FLEXIES Input Data Central Europe

If you use this data, please cite the following publication:

Maeder, M., Weiss, O., & Boulouchos, K. (2021). Assessing the need for flexibility technologies in decarbonized power systems: A new model applied to Central Europe. Applied Energy, 282, 116050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116050

Description:

FLEXibility from Interconnections and Electricity Storages (FLEXIES) is a power system optimization model that investigates flexibility technologies for fully decarbonized power systems.

• Authors: Mattia Maeder & Olga Weiss (June 2020)
• Developed in the Master Thesis "The role of energy flexibility measures in the energy transition" by Mattia Maeder and supervised by Olga Weiss, ETH Zurich (April 2020)
• Introduced and used in the manuscript "Assessing the need for flexibility technologies in decarbonized power systems: A new model applied to Central Europe" by Mattia Maeder, Olga Weiss, and Konstantinos Boulouchos (June 2020)

This upload contains the input datasets on energy generation and flexibility technologies for the case study of Central Europe (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, and Italy). Furthermore, it contains the files that read the data into MATLAB. The FLEXIES code can be accessed here: 10.5281/zenodo.3881499