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This chapter falls within the context of modelling the deployment of renewable energy production capacities in the scope of the energy transition. This problem is addressed from an energy point of view, i.e., the deployment of technologies is seen as an energy investment under the constraint that an initial budget of nonrenewable energy is provided. Using the Energy Return on Energy Investment (ERoEI) characteristics of technologies, we propose MODERN, a discrete-time formalization of the deployment of renewable energy production capacities. Besides showing the influence of the ERoEI parameter, the model also underlines the potential benefits of designing control strategies for optimizing the deployment of production capacities and the necessity to increase energy efficiency.
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This chapter presents results obtained thanks to the IAP program DYSCO (Dynamical Systems, Control and Optimization). We also thank the entire Smart Grid research group of the University of Liège for fruitful discussions.
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Fonteneau, R., Ernst, D. (2017). On the Dynamics of the Deployment of Renewable Energy Production Capacities. In: Furze, J., Swing, K., Gupta, A., McClatchey, R., Reynolds, D. (eds) Mathematical Advances Towards Sustainable Environmental Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43901-3_3
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