MEO

The MEO project - Model Experiments on Operational Energy System Analysis - was one of six projects in the MODEX program. While many of the other MODEX projects dealt with questions of classic energy system analysis, MEO wanted to break new ground in energy system analysis. Due to the complexity and scope of the systems under investigation, simplifications had to be made in the modeling, for example with regard to the temporal and spatial resolution of energy generation and consumption or the grid infrastructures. This created a gap in traditional energy system analysis with regard to the operational effects of the simulation results on the real system. Approaches to closing this gap included, for example, models that can be used to simulate the operation of power grids in high temporal and spatial resolution in order to determine how certain generation structures affect the voltage levels. It was obvious that such models could only represent a smaller system scope as compensation for the higher resolution. Therefore, the operational energy system analysis models focused on certain aspects of the energy system, such as the modeling of control strategies for virtual power plants or the effects of combined heat and power plants on (spatially high-resolution) heat and power grids. The MEO consortium examined eight scenarios in which various changes within a distribution grid were simulated. The scenarios formed the basis for a comparison of eight different modeling approaches and included, for example, the expansion of solar power generation plants, the increase in e-mobility and the expansion of heat pumps.