Model Factsheet

General Information

Name	Pan European TIMES model
Acronym	TIMES PanEU
Methodical Focus	None
Institution(s)	Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Energy Use
Author(s) (institution, working field, active time period)
Current contact person	Markus Blesl
Contact (e-mail)	Markus.Blesl@ier.uni-stuttgart.de
Website	https://www.ier.uni-stuttgart.de/en/research/models/times/
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Primary Purpose
Primary Outputs
Support / Community / Forum
Framework	TIMES
Link to User Documentation	-
Link to Developer/Code Documentation	-
Documentation quality	not available
Source of funding	-
Number of developers	less than 20
Number of users	less than 10

Openness

Open Source
Planned to open up in the future
Costs	-

Software

Modelling software	VEDA TIMES; GAMS; CPLEX
Internal data processing software
External optimizer
Additional software
GUI

Coverage

Modeled energy sectors (final energy)	electricity, heat, Supply
Modeled demand sectors	Households, Industry, Commercial sector, Transport
Modeled technologies: components for power generation or conversion	Renewables PV, Wind, Hydro, Biomass,Biogas,Biofuels, Solar thermal, Geothermal heat Conventional gas, lignite, hard coal, oil, liquid fuels, nuclear
Modeled technologies: components for transfer, infrastructure or grid	Electricity transmission Gas transmission Heat transmission
Properties electrical grid	-
Modeled technologies: components for storage	battery, compressed air, pump hydro, heat, gas
User behaviour and demand side management
Changes in efficiency	Considered
Market models	fundamental model
Geographical coverage	EU27; UK; NO; CH
Geographic (spatial) resolution	national states
Time resolution	Typical days
Comment on geographic (spatial) resolution
Observation period	>1 year
Additional dimensions (sector)	-

Mathematical Properties

Model class (optimisation)	LP
Model class (simulation)	-
Other
Short description of mathematical model class	Optimization
Mathematical objective	costs
Approach to uncertainty	Deterministic
Suited for many scenarios / monte-carlo
typical computation time	less than a day
Typical computation hardware	-
Technical data anchored in the model	-

Model Integration

Interfaces
Model file format	.gms
Input data file format	.xls
Output data file format	.xls
Integration with other models
Integration of other models

References

Citation reference	-
Citation DOI	-
Reference Studies/Models	-
Example research questions	-
Model usage	-
Model validation	-
Example research questions	-
further properties
Model specific properties	-

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