1. Preparation of input data

To implement elastic demand in backbone, we will use the "penalty" paramter of backbone. This parameter allows backbone to not meet demand and instead pay a preset penalty. The standard penalty value for not meeting demand is 10⁹ €/MWh. We can change this value by adding the option --penalty=value (in €/MWh) to the command line.

You shall now run your model three times: once with the average VoLL of 18.92 €/kWh, once with the maximum VoLL of 58.29 €/kWh and once with the minimum VoLL of 6.40 €/kWh (pay attention to the units). Remember to disable the hydrogen units and to remove the "--tutorial=1" flag from the command line. For each run, copy all results from the backbone output folder and save them.