FLEXIES Input Data Central Europe

<p><strong>If you use this data, please cite the following publication:</strong></p> <p>Maeder, M., Weiss, O., &amp; Boulouchos, K. (2021). Assessing the need for flexibility technologies in decarbonized power systems: A new model applied to Central Europe.&nbsp;<em>Applied Energy</em>,&nbsp;<em>282</em>, 116050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.116050</p> <p><strong>Description:</strong></p> <p>FLEXibility from Interconnections and Electricity Storages (FLEXIES) is a power system optimization model that investigates flexibility technologies for fully decarbonized power systems.</p> <ul> <li>Authors: Mattia Maeder &amp; Olga Weiss (June 2020)</li> <li>Developed in the Master Thesis &quot;The role of energy flexibility measures in the energy transition&quot; by Mattia Maeder and supervised by Olga Weiss, ETH Zurich (April 2020)</li> <li>Introduced and used in the manuscript &quot;Assessing the need for flexibility technologies in decarbonized power systems: A new model applied to Central Europe&quot; by Mattia Maeder, Olga Weiss, and Konstantinos Boulouchos (June 2020)</li> </ul> <p>This upload contains the <strong>input datasets on energy generation and flexibility technologies for the case study of Central Europe</strong> (Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, and Italy). Furthermore, it contains the files that <strong>read the data into MATLAB</strong>. The FLEXIES code can be accessed here:&nbsp;10.5281/zenodo.3881499</p>