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We are looking for a student to bring our Results viewer to the next level. You are the perfect match if you have some decent Python skills and are interested in the future of Swiss electricity supply and demand! Apply now!
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New team member!
The Nexus-e team is very proud and pleased to welcome María Parajeles as a new team member! Maris is a doctoral researcher at Power Systems Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Gabriela Hug and focuses in her research on the transportation sector electrification and its interaction with electrical distribution grids.
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How dependent is the Swiss energy transition on developments in its neighboring countries?
At this year’s Energy Research Talks Disentis 2022, Dr. Marius Schwarz addressed this question. Check out the scenarios in our interactive results viewer!
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Prof. Gabriela Hug presents new Nexus-e scenarios at Energy Week
Last week, Prof. Gabriela Hug presented the new scenarios that we developed using the Nexus-e platform at the Energy Week 2021. On the topic “Climate Neutral Switzerland 2050: What Energy System Do We Need?” Gaby – project lead of Nexus-e – highlighted three key learnings
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Two new researchers joined the Nexus-e project
The Nexus-e team is very pleased to welcome Ludger Leenders and Mengshuo Jia as new members. Ludger will be responsible for the integration of SecMOD into the Nexus-e framework. Mengshuo will bring in his expertise in power flow modeling.
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Andre Bardow joins Nexus-e as PI
Prof. Andre Bardow, full professor for Energy and Process Systems Engineering, joins the Nexus-e team as a Principle Investigator (PI). Andre and his team bring in their rich expertise in energy system modeling and optimization.
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SWEET PATHFNDR just kicked off, with Nexus-e as the central tool
This June, the SWEET PATHFNDR (PATHways to an Efficient Future Energy System through Flexibility aND SectoR Coupling) project kicked off. PATHFNDR is a research project that aims to develop and analyse transition pathways for renewable energy integration in Switzerland. It is sponsored by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy’s SWEET programme. As the central tool for the consortium, Nexus-e will provide the scenarios, considering technical, economic, and social constraints for the national scale and regional scale.
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New paper published in Applied Energy

Demonstrating the benefits and limitations of interfacing five Nexus-e models

In this paper, we show the value of connecting models for assessing the transition of electricity systems until 2050.

  • We present the modeling platform Nexus-e in detail.
  • Nexus-e integrates top-down and bottom-up models of the energy-economic system.
  • Nexus-e assesses the coordinated investments in centralized and distributed resources.
  • Nexus-e allows to analyze the impact of changes in the an electric power system on grid security.
  • We show the benefits and limitations of the loops and interfaces within Nexus-e.

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Nexus-e is an interconnected energy system modeling platform which aims to facilitate the energy transition in Switzerland by serving as a modeling infrastructure for researchers, students, and industry partners.

Using the Nexus-e platform, we develop pathways for the Swiss energy system and analyze the impact of technological, economic, regulatory, and societal developments.

The Nexus-e platform aims to

  • represent the whole energy system at regional and national scales,
  • combine strengths of top-down and bottom-up modeling approaches to account for complexity and multidisciplinarity in the energy system,
  • be a platform with a modular structure, well-defined interfaces, and transparent assumptions,
  • provide an infrastructure that is continuously used, extended, and improved by researchers from ETH Zurich, other institutions, and industry partners,
  • inform private and public stakeholders on topics concerning the energy transition to support public engagement.

With a current focus on electricity, the Nexus-e platform will include more components of the energy system, including energy supply and use, for example, related to buildings, transportation, or environmental impacts.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Energy Strategy Reviews

Challenges and opportunities on linking models based on their capabilities and limitations.

Power Systems Computation Conference

Transmission network reduction method using nonlinear optimization.

International European Safety and Reliability Conference

Calibration of cascading failure simulation models for power system risk assessment.

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