Abstract
As the world is transitioning towards highly renewable energy systems, advanced tools are needed to analyze the complex energy networks. Energy system design is, however, challenged by real-world objective functions consisting of a blurry mix of technical and socioeconomic agendas, with limitations that cannot always be clearly stated. As a result, economically suboptimal solutions will likely be preferable. Here, a method capable of determining the continuum containing all economically near-optimal solutions is presented, moving the field of energy system modeling from discrete solutions to a new era where continuous solution ranges are available. The proposed method is applied to study a range of technical and socio-economic metrics on a model of the European electricity system. The near-optimal region is found to be relatively flat allowing for solutions that are slightly more expensive than the optimum but better in terms of equality, land use,and implementation time.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Artikelnummer | 121294 |
Tidsskrift | Energy |
Vol/bind | 234 |
Antal sider | 12 |
ISSN | 0360-5442 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - nov. 2021 |