The European Electricity Market Model EMMA
EMMA is a techno-economic model of the integrated European power system. It simulates both dispatch of and investment in power plants, minimizing total costs with respect to investment, production and trade decisions subject to a large set of technical constraints. EMMA has been applied within a broad range of consulting and research projects, studying the economics of electricity markets. »
EMMA for Research
EMMA has been used for about a dozen peer-reviewed publications. At the Hertie Centre for Sustainability we use the model for national and international research projects. »
EMMA for Teaching
At the Hertie School in Berlin,
Prof. Lion Hirth teaches the graduate course Electricity System Modeling. The course builds on and uses EMMA. »
EMMA Team
Model documentation
We invest a lot of time in keeping the EMMA Model documentation up to date and comprehensive (PDF).
EMMA is open-source
The model code, input data and documentation are freely available under the MIT Software License and the Create Commons BY-SA 4.0 License, respectively. Model code and input data is available on GitHub and as a zip file.