Training & Workshops
Energy Research Centre (Cape Town, South Africa) – Regular Summer Workshop
Title: 2012 – Regular Summer Workshop
Host: Energy Research Centre, (ERC-UCT), Cape Town, South Africa
Venue: Krammer Building LT3, Middle Campus, Univ. Cape Town, (South Africa)
Date: June 22, 2012
Contacts: GianCarlo Tosato, George Giannakidis
Programme – Summary
June 22, 2012 (09:00-17:20) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
June 22, 2012 (09:00-17:20)
ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
9:00-11:00
Demand Sectors and Renewables
Chair: B. Merven
Ms. Stephanie Bouckaert, CMA, France
Flattening the load curve with Demand Response solutions: a long-term analysis
Gilles Guerassimoff, Gondia Seck, Ahcene Djemaa, Alain Hita, Nadia Maizi, CMA, France
Modeling the Industry sector for decision making for mid to long-term energy efficiency planning
J. DeCarolis, North Carolina State Univ., USA
Deployment of plug-in hybrid vehicles in the US – Results from a US-TIMES model.
Mr. Kostas Tigas, CRES, Greece
Technical Constraints on RES Penetration Imposed by Electrical System Operation and a relative Software Evaluation tool
E. Rosenberg, A. Lind, P. Seljom, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Norway
The impact of the EU Renewable Energy Directive on a hydro power based energy system
Birgit Gotz, IER, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Main challenges for modeling policy instruments in energy system models: First results
11:00-11:20
Morning break
11:20-13:00
National and multi-Regional models
Chair: K. Karlsson
Uwe Remme, IEA
Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 – Pathways to a Clean Energy System
Markus Blesl, IER, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Progress with the TIMES PanEU model
Mr. H. Hamasaki, Fujitsu Research Institute (FRI), Japan; A. Kanudia, KanORS-EMR, India
Japan after Fukushima: Analysis on the design of FIT using GIS and TIMES Integrated Model
Ms Miao-Shan Tsai, Ssu-Li Chang, Tzu-Yar Liu, Taiwan
Taiwan’s Roadmap towards a Low Carbon Development: An Evaluation with the MARKAL model
A. Kanudia, KanORS-EMR, India
Combining TIAM_World with the TIMES-FACET US model: lessons learnt
13:00-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-14:40
Modelling of CCS potential using TIMES
Chair: G. Tosato
Ms. Julia Seixas, Portugal
Opportunity for CCS under low carbon pathways for Portugal
Ms. Helena Cabal, CIEMAT, Spain
TIMES-Spain model and scenarios
Mr. Maurizio Gargiulo, E4SMA, Italy; Ms. Maryse Labriet, ENERIS, Spain
Some elements of the TIMES-Morocco model and scenarios
A. Kanudia, GC Tosato, M. Labriet, M. Gargiulo, ASATREM srl
Joint optimisation of regional energy and CCS infrastructure systems of Morocco, Portugal and Spain: the TIMES-COMET model
14:40-15:30
Improvement of existing tools and continuation of ongoing work (5′-10′ each)
Chair: G. Giannakidis
Amit Kanudia
VEDA-FE: Attachment of models at run time
Amit Kanudia
VEDA-FE: improvement of the base-year templates
Giorgio Simbolotti, GianCarlo Tosato
Completion of the E-TechDS
Giorgio Simbolotti (Italy), M.Gargiulo, E4SMA (Italy)E
TechDS Data Normalization and Handling for Modeling Use
Socrates Kypreos, Adriana Marcucci, PSI (Switzerland), Antti Lehtila, VTT (Finland)
Peer review publication for the Hard-Link of MERGE&TIMES-MACRO (MTM)
M. Blesl, IER, (Germany), et al.
Second Phase of the Collaboration for a common ETSAP-TIAM by partners
15:30-15:50
Afternoon break
15:50-16:40
New proposals (5′-10′ each)
Chair: G. Giannakidis
G. Goldstein, DWI (US), A. Kanudia, A. Lehtila
Solving in the “Cloud”
G. Goldstein DWI (US), M. Gargiulo, K. Vaillancourt, A. Kanudia, K. Noble
Enhancing ETSAP Training Materials and the New User Experience
Paul Dodds, UCL (UK)
Visualization of TIAM and other TIMES/MARKAL Reference Energy Systems
Brian O Gallachoir, UCC (Ireland); M. Gargiulo, E4SMA (Italy); S. Kypreos
Irish TIMES-MACRO
Erik Ahlgren, Chalmers (Sweden)
Modeling CHP and DH in TIMES
Erik Ahlgren, Chalmers (Sweden)
Procedure for collaborative efforts between national TIMES and national CGE models
16:40-17:00
Conclusions