13-10-2014, 11:47 AM
Tough question.
You can of course prevent both export and import occurring in the same time slice, by exogenously assuming for each timeslice, that only export/import can occur in that timeslice. But if you want the model to decide by itself the sign of the net imports in each timeslice, I cannot see how you can prevent the model from exporting and importing in the same time, if that happens to be profitable. If you find a way, I'd be interested to learn how.
