Evaluation of co-firing as a cost-effective short-term sustainable CO 2 mitigation strategy in Germany

Steffen Knapp; Almut Güldemund; Steffi Weyand; Liselotte Schebek

doi:10.1186/s13705-019-0214-3

Table 1 Data source and database of the input parameters of the merit order model

From: Evaluation of co-firing as a cost-effective short-term sustainable CO₂ mitigation strategy in Germany

Input Parameter	Source	Comments
Electricity demand	Grid data of transmission system operators [10,11,12,13] and selected regional network operators	Scaled to the annual values of BMWi (2013) [9]
Wind power	Grid data of transmission system operators	Scaled to the annual values of BMWi (2013) [9]
Photovoltaic	Grid data of transmission system operators	Scaled to the annual values of BMWi (2013) [9]
Run-of-river power stations	EEX Transparency (2011) [14]	Scaled to the annual values of BMWi (2013) [9]
Biomass	No published load profile available	Approach for the estimation of an idealised biomass load profile according to ISET (2009) [15]
Geothermal power	No published load profile available	Due to minor present and anticipated future significance not taken into account in the MOM
Waste-to-energy plants	No published load profile available	Assumption: constant base load productionAnnual values according to BMWi (2013) [9]
Heat-controlled cogeneration plants	No published load profile available, no data available on the installed capacity of heat-controlled cogeneration plantsBundeskartellamt [16]: sub-day distribution of the feed-in of heat-controlled cogeneration plants	Assumption: installed net capacity = 8800 MW_el
Transboundary electricity transfer	Grid data of transmission system operators	Scaled to the annual values of BMWi (2013) [9]
Pump- and seasonal-storages	EEX Transparency (2011) [14]	Scaled to the annual values of BMWi (2013) [9]
Marginal cost dependent power plants	List of all active power plants [17]	complemented by net installed capacity and efficiency from direct publications by power plant operators or assumption of data from technically comparable power plants
Emission factors	Regulations on allocation of GHG emission allowances (German: Verordnung über die Zuteilung von Treibhausgas-Emissionsberechtigungen) [18]
Commodity prices	European Energy Exchange (EEX) Group; Energate [19, 20]
CO₂ certificate prices	European Energy Exchange (EEX) Group [19]
Plant availability	EEX Transparency [21]

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