MICOES-Europe and MICOES-Barometer are fundamental electricity market models. MICOES-Europe models the European electricity market in detail and provides scenarios of future day-ahead electricity prices, taking into account various well-founded assumptions. MICOES-Barometer focuses on the German control reserve market and calculates fundamental power and work prices for primary, secondary and minute reserve (FCR, aFRR and mFRR).

Software: GAMS

Model type: Techno-economic, deterministic

Field of application: Scenarios of future electricity prices (day-ahead), balancing power prices, optimal dispatch of electricity suppliers and demanders

Model description

Background

Prices on the wholesale electricity market will change in the future due to the further expansion of renewable energies and the increasing penetration of sector coupling technologies. For investment decisions in new electricity generation or consumption plants, knowledge of the future development of electricity prices in terms of revenues or costs is central. Due to the changing power plant fleet, however, historical prices cannot simply be extrapolated into the future, as their structure is subject to fundamental changes.

Modelling objective

The fundamental models MICOES-Europe and MICOES-Barometer start at this point and explicitly take into account the techno-economic properties of the power plant fleet as well as of flexible and inflexible sector coupling technologies. This allows their cost-optimal use on the electricity market (day-ahead and for balancing power) to be determined for future scenarios. As a result, the models provide scenarios of future day-ahead electricity prices as well as fundamental power and labour prices for FCR, aFRR and mFRR.

Approach

Both models use a detailed database of the European and German power plant fleet with its techno-economic parameters. In addition, hourly resolved time series of the conventional electricity demand as well as of heat pumps and electric vehicles are taken into account. The weather-dependent feed-in of renewable energies is fundamentally determined on the basis of regional weather data. Both models calculate the cost-optimal plant deployment as a mixed-integer optimisation problem and deliver both the plant deployment and prices for electricity on the wholesale market or power and work prices on the balancing power market as a result. Strategic behaviour is not taken into account in the models.

Benefits

The scenarios of future prices for electricity on the wholesale market or on the balancing power market can be used to support strategic decisions. In particular, by varying the scenarios examined for their effects, sensitivities to certain parameters can be estimated in advance.

Impressions from the modelling

Model users and developers

 Philipp Lerch

Philipp Lerch

Research Fellow

Energiemanagement und Nachhaltigkeit
Institutsgebäude
Grimmaische Straße 12, Room I 430
04109 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 33521

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Dr. Diana Böttger

Ehemalige wiss. Mitarbeiterin

Universität Leipzig, Institut für Infrastruktur und Ressourcenmanagement, Professur für Energiemanagement und Nachhaltigkeit

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