The European Union has declared an ambitious target for all member states to most widely achieve climate
neutrality by 2050. Therefore, the Federal Republic of Germany must initiate a fundamental restructuring
of the energy supply, whereby the increasing Energy Systems Integration has a decisive influence on this
transformation path. To account for the sectoral interdependence, we complemented an existing electricity
market model in the modeling environment urbs by the heat sector in this thesis. Our purpose is to optimize
the transformation of the German energy system concerning both emissions and costs. The combination of
private and economic optimization perspectives constitutes a novelty in this field of research. Also, for the first
time, the utilization of powerful hardware provides the possibility to capture integer and intertemporal problem
facets of the heating market. We applied the resulting overall model to analyze, within the framework of
scenario studies, whether and under which side conditions the given climate goals can be accomplished. The
results suggest that the increased use of heat pumps, electric heaters, and modern CHP plants could realize
far-reaching decarbonization of heat generation in four different transformation paths. At the same time, the
strong coupling of the heat and electricity sectors enables the further expansion of photovoltaics and, in
particular, wind power plants without investments in additional electrical storage capacities. Furthermore,
the systematic integration of energy technology and economic factors in this study allows the evaluation
of political instruments such as carbon pricing regarding their effectiveness in the field of conflict between
private and economic interests.
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The European Union has declared an ambitious target for all member states to most widely achieve climate
neutrality by 2050. Therefore, the Federal Republic of Germany must initiate a fundamental restructuring
of the energy supply, whereby the increasing Energy Systems Integration has a decisive influence on this
transformation path. To account for the sectoral interdependence, we complemented an existing electricity
market model in the modeling environment urbs by the heat sector in this th...
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