Open Source Modelling and Simulation of the Nordic Hydro Power System

Iasonas Kouveliotis-Lysikatos, Angelica Waernlund, Manuel Marin, Mikael Amelin and Lennart Söder
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Iasonas Kouveliotis-Lysikatos: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Angelica Waernlund: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Manuel Marin: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Mikael Amelin: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Lennart Söder: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: In this paper, we present the results from the development and the simulation of a hydro power model for Sweden and Norway, using SpineOpt software and openly available data. We employ (i) hydrological and market data from the Nordic region and (ii) the abstract representation of the multi-vector modelling and simulation engine SpineOpt, to compile an open-source model of a large portion of the hydro power plants of the Nordic region, for conducting realistic hydro power generation studies. We place the hydro power system operation within the structuring of the Nordic electricity market and study the effect that different objectives have on the operational results. By employing the SpineOpt functionalities for automating the transformation of the temporal resolution of the model, we explore the trade-of between its computational burden and accuracy.

Keywords: energy system model; hydro power; nordic system; open-source model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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