Training & Workshops

ABARE (Canberra, Australia) – Regular Spring Workshop

Title: 2002 – Regular Spring Workshop
Host: ABARE (Canberra, Australia)
Venue: ABARE Corner Macquarie and Broughton Streets
Date:  May27-30, 2002
Contacts:  Ken Noble

Programme – Summary
May 27, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
May 28, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00) – Integrating Top Down and Bottom Up Modelling Perspectives
May 29, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 2
May 30, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 3
May 31, 2002 (14.15 – 17.15) – ETSAP Executive Committee

Participation restricted to ETSAP Delegates, officers, and invited experts.
Agenda and attachments are sent separately.

May 31, 2002 (09.00 – 12.30)– ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 4

May 27, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00)

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1

9.00 – 10.30
Session

Unander
Overview of the ETP project

Unander
Overview and brief status of project components

Unander
Next steps – Project plan with milestones

Kanudia, R. Loulou
Results of demonstration runs, status for global model development

10.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break

11.00 – 15.00
Session

Gielen, K. Smekens
Detailed discussions of point 2.1 Technology data

Kanudia, G.C.Tosato
Detailed discussions of 2.2 regional models and review

Kanudia, D. Gielen
Detailed discussions of TIMES and other software issues

15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break

15.30 – 17.00
Discussion of a draft project plan for:

  • IEA-ETP project, with focus on ETSAP input
  • ETSAP Annex VIII with focus on input to the ETP project

May 28, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00)

Integrating Top Down and Bottom Up Modelling Perspectives

Papers presented in this meeting are:

Richard Loulou and Amit Kanudia
Simulating alternate permit allocation schemes with MARKAL

Gary A. Goldstein
MARKAL related activities in the US

Dolf Gielen
Carbon Leakage Effects of Climate Policies

Uwe Remme, Markus Blesl, Anjana Das, Ulrich Fahl
Overview of the application of TIMES at IER

Philip D. Adams
MEDIUM-TERM FORECASTS OF ENERGY USAGE: AN APPLICATION OF THE MMRF-GREEN TOPS-DOWN MODEL

Philip Adams
MEDIUM-TERM FORECASTS OF ENERGY USAGE: AN APPLICATION OF THE MMRF-GREEN TOPS-DOWN MODEL

Richard Loulou and Amit Kanudia
Energy/Environmental Analysis via B-U and T-D models: Linking MARKAl to amacroeconometric model

S. Kypreos and O. Bahn
Combining the top-down and down and bottom bottom-up approaches: the MERGE MERGE-ETL model ETL model

Dr. Peter Brain
NIEIRs Approach to Tops-Down and Bottoms-Up Modelling

Denise Van Regemorter
The EU Kyoto target and the choice of policy instruments

Dr. Robert K. Dixon
National Climate Change Technology Initiative

Pia Hartman & Barry Kapilow-Cohen & Gary Goldstein
Overview and Special Features of Overview and Special Features of SAGE

Barry Naughten
Some MARKAL capabilities in Australian energy policy analysis: mandated target for renewable electricity

ABARE
Modeling Climate Change Policies Using GTEM

Fridtjof Unander
IEA-ETSAP Semi-annual Meeting ABARE, Canberra, Australia

Phillip Tseng & John C. Lee
A Case Study on EERE R&D Portfolio

Osamu Sato and Masanori Yamaguchi
Progress of Energy Technology Systems Analysis in JAERI

Koen Smekens & Jos Sijm
Economic Effects of Grandfathering CO2 Allowances

Koen Smekens
Ongoing activities

Phillip Tseng
MARKAL MACRO for Strategic Plan

May 29, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00)

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 2

09.00-10.30
Session
Phillip Tseng, US-DOE and Vivek Tulpul, ABARE
Welcome address

Smekens
Update on ETSAP activities since the previous meeting, Contribution to other projects and activities

Hill, K. Smekens
Finalisation of Annex VII

Ongoing activities, Round table by all participants

10.30-11.00
Coffee Break

11.00-12.30
Session

Gielen, IEA
The carbon leakage effects of climate policies

Loulou, A. Kanudia
Simulating alternate permit allocation schemes with MARKAL

Smekens, CO2quota

12.30-14.00
lunch

14.00-17.00
R. Loulou, A. Kanudia, Tutorial on VEDA – TIMES

May 30, 2002 (09.00 – 17.00)

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 3

9.00 – 10.30
Session

G.C. Tosato
Introduction, Presentation of the Agenda

Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino
Presentation of the Operating Agent

ANNEX VIII 2002 Program of Work: presentation and discussion

10.30-11.00
Coffee Break

11.00-13.00
Session

C. Lee, P. Tseng
A case study on EERE R&D Portfolio MARKAL-MACRO for strategic planning

Unander
IEA activities update

Noble
Update on ANSWER

Kanudia
Status of VEDA – FE Shell for TIMES

G.C. Tosato
Financing uneconomic productions with RESIDual capacity in MARKAL

14.30-17.00

Preliminary discussion on some Executive Committee agenda items:

  1. Adoption of the minutes of the previous Executive Committee meeting
    5. Annex VII (Contributing to the Kyoto Protocol)
    6. Annex VIII (Exploring Energy Technologies Perspectives)

6.3 POW and budget (continuation of the morning discussion)
6.4 Programme and Responsibilities of the participants
6.5 Participation to international projects
6.6 Towards the distribution of TIMES: what needs to be done and to be changed

  1. Annex IX (MARKAL-TIMES User’s club)

7.1 Discussion of the text of the Annex
7.3 Financial support
7.4 Diffusion (Documentation, Tutorials, Courses, Costs of the packages, conditions for use, )
7.5 Contribution to ETP and other global exercises

  1. Other business

8.1 Non active members
8.3 Next workshop (Torino, 21-25.10.2002, Paris??, with join WS with??)