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Overview
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Oemof-B3 is an energy system model of Berlin and Brandenburg. It represents many sectors:
Electricity, central and decentral heat, hydrogen, CO2 and methane. It is a multi-node-model, which
means that several distinct regions are represented that are connected via transmission lines.

.. 	image:: _img/model_structure.svg
   :scale: 100 %
   :alt: schematic of model structure
   :align: center

The model is a perfect-foresight, cost minimizing linear optimization model based on
`oemof.solph <https://github.com/oemof/oemof-solph>`_,
`oemof.tabular <https://github.com/oemof/oemof-tabular>`_
and `oemoflex <https://github.com/rl-institut/oemoflex>`_.