Unit commitment constraints in long-term planning models: Relevance, pitfalls and the role of assumptions on flexibility

- Not considering alternative sources of flexibility can lead to significant errors. - Unit commitment constraints have limited impact with alternative flexibility sources. - Unit commitment constraints mainly impact investments in storage technologies. - Sensitivity to assumed flexibility of power plants and reserve requirements is high. - Errors due to approximate formulations are small compared to the sensitivities.

Publication year:2020

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Authors from:Higher Education

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