REWARDS

The project REWARDS deals with the conception of different system scenarios with endangered energy security and the development of suitable model constraints and scenario tree structures for their implementation in the stochastic modelling and optimization framework EMPRISE. After developing an understanding of the concepts of energy security, energy sovereignty, and resilience in integrated energy systems, the identification and structuring of shocks and slow-burn processes that significantly threaten energy security follows. After a structural derivation of storylines, which cover a broad range of system developments that can be regularly expected in the future, these storylines are combined with the shocks and slow-burn processes to form so-called storyline-shock combinations. For their representation in EMPRISE, parameterization concepts are developed that enable the implementation of new model restrictions and scenario tree structures. By applying and further developing EMPRISE, an evaluation of possible trade-offs between energy security and additional costs for energy system transformation can be performed. By open-sourcing the EMPRISE framework including the new methodological approaches and interfaces as well as the use and generation of open-source datasets, the project follows open-science principles.
At the University of Kassel, the definitions of energy security, energy sovereignty, and resilience in integrated energy systems are developed. A list of possible shocks and slow-burn processes that pose a threat to energy security is compiled. Subsequently, new model constraints are implemented in the EMPRISE framework. Furthermore, the University of Kassel performs all simulations based on the storyline-shock combinations with the EMPRISE framework and analyses the repercussions on the German transmission grid with pandapower.