This paper provides a description of ELMOD, a model of the European electricity market including both generation and … Public Sector Management (EE2) at Dresden University of Technology in order to analyze various questions on market design …, congestion management, and investment decisions, with a focus on Germany and Continental Europe. ELMOD is a bottom-up model …

at developments following the introduction of market-based reserve management. We assess the dependence of the minute …This paper analyzes the functioning of the markets for electricity reserves in Germany. We provide an overview of the … technical requirements and the market design and structure of the primary, secondary and tertiary reserve markets, and then look …

German electricity sector, for the five years 2006 through 2010. Based on a unit commitment model we estimate that CO2 … emissions from the electricity sector are reduced by 33 to 57 Mtons, or 10% to 16% of what estimated emissions would have been … consistently positive for the German electricity system, at least for these years, and on the order of 0.5% to 1.5% of emissions. …