EnergyNumbers-Balancing
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creation date: 2026-08-14T16:37:43+02:00
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EnergyNumbers-Balancing
type: Subject
type: Category:Model
page: https://wiki.openmod-initiative.org/wiki/EnergyNumbers-Balancing
wiki namespace: 0
author institution: UCL Energy Institute
computation time comments: runtime ~1ms to simulate 4.5 years half-hourly
computation time minutes: 1.0E-5
contact persons: Andrew ZP Smith
data availability: some
decisions: dispatch
deterministic: Deterministic
example research questions: In Britain, how much wind & PV generation would be constrained, and what proportion of demand would get met in real time, assuming half-hourly demand as it was 2011-2015, and X% aggregate wind penetration, Y% aggregate PV penetration, and power-to-gas storage with an input efficiency of A%, an output efficiency of B%, storage capacity of C TWh, an input capacity of D GW, and an output capacity of E GW.
full model name: EnergyNumbers-Balancing
georegions: Britain, Germany, Spain
georesolution: National
is suited for many scenarios: true
math modeltype: Simulation
model class: Simulating storage and exogenously-variable renewables
model source public: false
modelling software: Fortran, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS
number of variables: 28
open future: false
open source licensed: false
processing software: Matlab, Python
sectors: Electricity
source download: energynumbers-balancing
technologies: Renewables
text description: The model uses historic demand data, and historic (half-)hourly capacity factors for PV and wind, to simulate the extent to which demand could be met by some combination of wind, PV and storage. Please do email me if you'd like to request early access to the source, and mention your github username.
timeresolution: Hour
website: balancing
wiki page creation date: 2015-09-07T08:23:19Z
creation date#aux: 2457272.8495255
special property ERRP: Property:Math modeltype shortdesc
wiki page last editor: User:Ludwig Schneider
wiki page modification date: 2022-02-10T19:47:43Z
modification date#aux: 2459621.3248032
wiki page is new: false
wiki page sort key: EnergyNumbers-Balancing