Abstract: Das vorliegende Buch beschreibt die Entwicklung und Anwendung eines agentenbasierten Simulationsmodells für den deutschen Strommarkt. Liberalisierung, verstärkte Anstrengungen zur Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen und der massive Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien haben zu einem Umbruch...

The German feed-in support of electricity generation from renewable energy sources has led to high growth rates of the supported technologies. Critics state that the costs for consumers are too high. An important aspect to be considered in the discussion is the price effect created by renewable...

Liberalisation, climate policy and promotion of renewable energy are challenges to players of the electricity sector in many countries. Policy makers have to consider issues like market power, bounded rationality of players and the appearance of fluctuating energy sources in order to provide...

This paper provides a review on modeling electricity markets with System Dynamics (SD) focusing on deregulated electricity market models. First the SD method is classified within the wide field of electricity market modeling. Then all distinctive properties of the SD method in this context are...