Training & Workshops

Greek Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES) (Athens, Greece) – Regular Winter Workshop

Title: 2011 – Regular Winter Workshop
Host: Greek Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES)
Venue: Greek Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES), Athens. Greece
Date:  November 8-9, 2011
Contacts:  GianCarlo Tosato, Haris Doukas. George Giannakidis

Programme – Summary
November 7, 2011 (09:30-17:00) – Coordination of ETSAP-TIAM related activities
November 8, 2011 (09:30-13:00) – Discussion of the Program of Work
November 8, 2011 (14:00-17:00) – ETSAP Executive Committee

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

November 9, 2011 (09:00-17:00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
November 10-12, 2011 (09:00-17:00) – Basic training course on VEDA-TIMES

November 7, 2011 (09:30-17:00)

Coordination of ETSAP-TIAM related activities


Chair: GianCarlo Tosato / Brian O Gallachoir
Rapporteur/se: Gary Goldstein, Kathleen Vaillancourt

Introduction
Result of the coordination activity (20’), by GianCarlo Tosato

Work session 1:
Coordination pathsFacilitator:Wouter Nijs (VITO)

Discussion topics:

  • Vision building
  • Consensus building
  • Strategy
Positioning

Work session 2:
Action plan: coordinated activities
Facilitator: Gabrial Anandarajah (UCL)

Work proposals on:

  • Priority in sectoral improvements
  • Collecting and merging existing documentation
  • Setting up a user’s support system

 

Work session 3:
Model improvements: hands-on session
Facilitator: Kenneth Karlsson (Risoe), Francesco Gracceva (JRC-Petten)

Joint work on:


  • Bugs and fixes
  • Sharing template sheet(s)

Conclusion:
Next steps / meetings

November 8, 2011 (09:30-13:00)

Discussion of the Program of Work

Chair: GianCarlo Tosato
Facilitator: Brian O Gallachoir
Rapporteur: George Giannakidis

After a short introduction (10′) by GianCarlo Tosato, proposals will be shortly presented and discussed

OBJ #1 Coordinated Analyses & Studies

  • E-TechDS: Status and proposals, by Giorgio Simbolotti
  • ETSAP-TIAM: Report of the discussion held on Monday (GG, KV)
  • IER proposal, by Markus Blesl
  • Recalibration to 2009, by GianCarlo Tosato and Antti Lehtila
  • Integrating policy instruments into the TIMES model, by Birgit Gotz
  • Mode choice in a TIMES model, by Brian O Gallachoir

OBJ #2 Research and Development

  • Generators (45′)
  • Procedure for implementing a global TIMES-MERGE general equilibrium variant By Socrates Kypreos and Antti Lehtila
  • Risk to price volatility, by Wouter Nijs and Denise Van Regemorter
  • Modelling intermittent sources in TIMES, by Kostas Tigas

OBJ #3 Capacity Building

  • Capacity building
  • Status and proposals (10′), by GianCarlo Tosato and Maurizio Gargiulo

OBJ #4 Tools maintenance and improvement

  • User’s shells (20′)
  • Maintenance and improvements, etc., forum, by GianCarlo Tosato, et al.

Summary and Conclusion (25′)

November 9, 2011 (09:00-17:00)

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1

9:30-11:10

Updates on TIMES-models
Chair: Denise Van Regemorter

Ms. Denise Van Regemorter
The EU climate policy perspectives and their implications for Belgium

Mr Dmitry Gordeev, Gaidar Institute
Russian energy future: WWF vision

Ms. Kathleen Vaillancourt, GERAD, Research Center in Decision Analysis
Recent developments in the energy model TIMES-Canada and focus on unconventional gas production until 2050

Mr. Erik Ahlgren, Chalmers
Cost-effective biogas utilisation: a modelling assessment of gas infrastructural options in a regional energy system.

Mr. Maurizio Gargiulo, et al. (E4SMA)
The COMET methodology to analyse the most cost effective CO2 transport and storage infrastructure in TIMES

11:10-11:30

Morning Break

11:30-13:00

Advances in TIMES
Chair: GianCarlo Tosato

Mr. Antti Lehtila, VTT
Updates on ANSWER-TIMES and ANSWER-MARKAL

Gary Goldstein, DWI
Updates on GAMS

Mr. Wouter Nijs, VITO
Investment decisions under fixed and flexible operational conditions, a first comparison

Ms. Hannah Daly, UCC
Moving towards modal shift in TIMES

Mr. Tobias Eder, IPP, Mr. Markus Biberacher (Research Studio)
Spatial TIMES

Discussion: next desirable improvements

13:00-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:10

Global Energy Models
Chair:Maryse Labriet

Mr. Gabrial Anandarajah, Mr. Paul Dodds, Mr. Will McDowall and Prof. Paul Ekins, Energy Institute, UCL – University College London, UK
Applications of Multi-cluster Endogenous Technology Learning in TIAM-UCL

Mr. Alexander Goryachev, ERI RAS
World modelling with TIAM: first experience

Mr. Francesco Gracceva, Ms. Anca Costescu Badea, Energy Institute, Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Petten
First experience with ETSAP-TIAM: exploring uncertainties around unconventional gas

15:10-15:30

Afternoon Break

15:30-17:30

New research and tools
Chair: George Giannakidis

Mr. Erik Ahlgren, Chalmers
Analysing burden sharing in the POEM modelling framework

Mr. Haris Doukas, NTUA
Exploring EU-GCC Energy and Environmental Analytical Capability

Ms. Loreta Stankeviciute, IPTS, Joint Research Center of the European Commission, Seville
Assessing the development of combined heat and power generation in the EU

Mr. Paul Dodds, Mr. Will McDowall, Energy Institute, UCL – University College London, UK
Comparisons of methods for representing Hydrogen in MARKAL and TIMES models

Ms. Birgit Gotz, IER, Uni-Stuttgart
Modelling policy instruments in TIMES: Interactions between the EU Emissions Trading System and the feed-in tariff system for renewable electricity in Germany

All participants
Additional information on ongoing MARKAL and TIMES related projects:
models building; capacity building

17:30

Conclusion