European Electricity Market and Network Simulation for Energy System Analysis

Due to the increasing feed-in of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and the coupling of electricity markets the European energy system faces major changes. To investigate the impact of these developments on the European transmission system in particular, a network model in combination with nodal load and generation time series is required. With the Model of International Energy Systems (MILES), a combined market and network simulation is designed and implemented. Previous versions of MILES have already been applied in several energy system studies. The execution of the market model and the quality of the simulation results have been published in a previous paper. The focus of this work is the presentation and validation of the subsequently executed network simulation basing on a detailed model of the European transmission system. Therefore, the simulation results for the ENTSO-E region of the year 2013 are exemplarily compared with published cross border physical flows between Germany and its neighboring countries.