Training & Workshops
ABB Corporate Research Center (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland) – Regular Winter Workshop
Title: 2000 – Regular Winter Workshop
Host: ABB Corporate Research Center
Venue: ABB Corporate Research Center, Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland
Date: October16-19, 2000
Contacts: ETSAP Secretariat
Programme – Summary
October 16, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
October 17, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 2
October 18, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 3
October 19, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00) – Technical sessions TIMES
Introduction to the Proceedings
The ETSAP meeting in the fall of 2000 took place in Switzerland, following an invitation by the Swiss ETSAP partner (PSI, Paul Scherrer Institute) and ABB, one of the worlds leading manufacturers of energy equipment. The regular semi-annual ETSAP workshop was scheduled back-to-back with a workshop of the China Energy Technology Program (CETP), initiated by ABB Corporate Research in conjunction with the Alliance for Global Sustainability, universities and Chinese organisations. This allowed for a one-day joint CETP/ETSAP seminar ‘Regional and Global Climate Change Concerns and Policy Options’ on 16 October. The various approaches and models applied within CETP were presented and discussed, followed by presentations by various representatives of the ETSAP community. The well-organised event, chaired by Mr. Baldur Eliasson of ABB, was highly appreciated by all participants, and it was agreed to organise a second similar event in future to exchange progress in both programmes. The next two days were devoted to the regular ETSAP Workshop, discussing progress and further plans for work under Annex VII, but also initiating thinking about possible future activities after 2001. Very positive reports were given on the development of the new generation energy model TIMES and user interfaces to operate the software. Also in the field of development of new algorithms to solve large (non-linear) programs very promising progress was reported from the University of Geneva.
Furthermore model applications and studies in the US, Germany, Norway, Italy and the Netherlands were reported. Preliminary results from an innovative PSI study combining the concept of technological learning with various degrees of global coordination to combat climate change were considered of interest for the wider audience engaged in the UNFCCC process. Hence it was decided to develop a presentation on this specific subject for the participants at the 6th session of the Conference of the Parties (CoP-6) meeting from 13 to 24 November in The Hague. In the afternoon of October 18 the Executive Committee met and discussed the work plan and procedures for development of future activities, as well as new policies towards ‘sleeping’ parties to the ETSAP Implementing Agreement. This time the meeting of the technical modeling group on Thursday 19 October concluded the series of meetings. A plan for further testing and development of shells was agreed, aiming to provide interim results for consideration at the next full ETSAP meeting in the spring of 2001.
Tom Kram presents SRES Writing Team Activitiesace GianCarlo TOSATO
ETSAP Project Head
EFDA/ CSU, IPP, Max-Plank-Institut
Boltzmannstr.2, D-85748 Garching Bei Muenchen
Germany
Phone: +(4989)3299-4194
fax. +(4989)3299-4197
e-mail: gct@etsap.org
October 16, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00)
ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
The China Energy Technology Program (CETP)
Eliasson
Some insights from the China Regional Energy Trade model, CRETM
Kypreos
Strategic Electric Sector Planning Using Tradeoff Analysis
S.R. Connors
LCA Modeling of Energy Chains Associated with Electricity Generation in Shandong
Dones
SRES Writing Team Activities
Kram
A Multi-Gas Approach to Climate Policy – with and without GWPs
Manne
Technology Options for Controlling Emissions
Freund
October 17, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00)
ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 2
Update on IEA activities
Unander
Annual Energy Outlook 2000
Kapilow-Cohen
Phase-out of Nuclear Energy, Results of the Modeling Experiment II of the Forum for Energy Models and Energy-Economic Analysis (FEES)
Remme
Comparative Study of GHG Projections for UNFCCC
Smekens
Recent ANSWER Enhancements and ANSWER-TIMES
Noble
The Expert’s TIMES SHELL – Description of a prototype
Kanudia
An interior point solver for smooth convex optimization applied to E3 models: MMacro and Merge
Epelly
October 18, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00)
ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 3
Multi-Regional Learning in MARKAL. Some experiments.
Barreto
Effect of climate change on energy in the New York metropolitan region
Hill
The Residential Model – A bottom up Model in the Norwegian Residential Sector
Alm
ETSAP related activities and plans in Italy
G.-C. Tosato
Modelling “in TIMES”
G.-C. Tosato, on behalf of D. Scaramuccia
Validation of TIMES: Lesson learnt by converting the MARKAL-ITALY model
G.-C. Tosato, on behalf of M. Contaldi
New ideas and plans for modelling work at ECN
Kram
October 19, 2000 (09.00 – 17.00)
Technical sessions TIMES
MESAP 4.0 Development TIMESAP
Baumhoegger