To decarbonize the economy, many governments have set targets for use of renewable energy sources. These are often formulated as relative shares electricity demand or supply. Implementing respective constraints in models is a surprisingly delicate issue. They may cause modeling artifact excessive storage use. We introduce this phenomenon “unintended cycling”, which can be detected case simultan...

Smart local energy networks provide an opportunity for more penetration of distributed energy resources. However, these resources cause an extra dependency in both time and carrier domains that should be considered through a comprehensive model. Hence, this paper introduces a new concept for internal and external dependencies in Smart Multi-Energy Systems (SMES). Internal dependencies are cause...

As renewable energy is increasingly fed into regional energy networks, they face significant additional spatial and temporal load fluctuations, making a reliable energy supply more difficult. This is particularly true in the context of varying weather conditions. Thus, diverse energy data on a building or household-level are essential for sustainable renewable energy planning and modeling. Howe...