Training & Workshops

Xijiao Hotel (Beijing, China) – Regular Summer Workshop

Title: 2014 – Regular Summer Workshop
Host: ERI,Beijing, China
Venue: Xijiao Hotel, 18 Wang Zhuang Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Date:  June 2-3, 2014
Contacts:  George Giannakidis

Programme – Summary
June 2, 2014 (09:00-17:00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
June 3, 2014 (09:00-13:00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 2
June 3, 2014 (14:00-17:00) – ETSAP Executive Committee

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

May 28-30, 2014 (09:00-18:00) – Basic training course on VEDA-TIMES

June 2, 2014 (09:00-17:00)

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1

9:00-10:30

Session 1: Renewable Energy
Chair: Dr. Kenneth Karlsson

Dr. Dong Gu Choi, Korea Institute of Energy Research, S. Korea
Quantitatively exploring the future of renewable portfolio standard in the Korean electricity sector via TIMES model

Dr Brian O Galachoir, Dr Paul Deane, Unirversity College Cork
Scrutinizing European Renewable Energy Policy using an Electricity Market Model

Mr. Kris Poncelet, KU Leuven/EnergyVille/VITO, Belgium
The importance of including short-term dynamics in planning models for electricity systems with high shares of intermittent renewables

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:00

Session 2: Hybrid models, energy, water, food nexus
Chair: Dr. Dr Brian Ó Gallachóir

Oleg Lugovoy Environmental Defence Fund, USA, Vladimir Potashinikov The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia.
Forward-looking energy elasticity parameters and optimised structure of nested CES production function

Dr. Hiroshi Hamasaki, Fujitsu Research Institute, Japan
Hybrid Model Approach Using TIMES-based JMRT Model

Mr. Japhet Edward Miano Kariuki, WEC Scenarios Team Member: Scenarios Study Group
The Opportunity Nexus Improving Energy Access: The Food, Energy and water connection

12:00-13:00

Lunch Break

13:00-14:00

Session 2 (cont): Hybrid models, energy, water, food nexus

Fadiel Ahjum and Theodor J. Stewart Univ. Cape Town, South Africa
A systems approach to urban water services in the context of integrated energy and water planning: a City of Cape Town case study

Maurizio Gargiulo (E4SMA, UCC) James Glynn (UCC), John Curtis (ESRI), John FitzGerald (ESRI), Brian Ó’Gallachóir (UCC)
Modelling macro-economic impacts of carbon constrained scenarios with Irish-TIMES MSA

14:00-15:30

Session 3: Regional and country models
Chair:Dr Uwe Remme

Mr. Aidyn Bakdolotov, Nazarbayev Univericity, Kazakhstan
Central Asia and Caucasus countries and China energy systems: Economic opportunities and policy challenges

Dr. Daniele Grosso, Dr. Raffaella Gerboni, Politecnico di Torino – DENERG, Italy
Modelling reliability and security of supply: a revised methodological approach and its possible application to the Chinese system

Dr. Sonia Yeh, University of California Davis, USA
Modelling Optimal Transition Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy in California

15:30-16:00

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

Session 4: Regional and country models
Chair: Dr Steve Pye

Mr. Christian Thiel, JRC Petten
EU energy system investments: capital requirement pathways towards 2050

Ms. Kari Aamodt Espegren, Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), Norway
Modelling of future energy demand

Dmitry Gordeev, Gaidar Institute,Moscow, Russia, Oleg Lugovoy, Center for Economic Modeling of Energy and Environment, RANE, EDF, USA, Vladimir Potashnikov, Gaidar Institute, Moscow, Russia
Climate benefits of road transport gasification in Russian Federation

June 3, 2014 (09:00-13:00)

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 2

9:00-11:00
Session 5: ETSAP Projects and tools
Chair: George Giannakidis

Ms Asami Miketa, IRENA
The REMAP project collaboration

Mr. Gary Goldstein, DecisionWare Inc, USA
World Bank Climate Smart Planning Platform Thirsty Energy Initiatives

Mr. Gary Goldstein, Mr. Ken Noble, Noblesoft, Australia
ANSWER/TIMES and ANSWER/MARKAL updates

Mr. Amit Kanudia, KANORS EMR, India
VEDA/TIMES updates

Dr Markus Blesl, IER, Germany
ETSAP TIAM project update

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

ETSAP projects: Collaborations and Proposals

11:30-12:00

Session 7: Presentation of ETSAP Project Proposals
Chair: George Giannakidis
(5 mins for each presentation followed by a brief discussion)

Giancarlo Tosato
Documentation for the TIMES Model Generator

Maryse Labriet, Eneris Environment Energy Consultants sl.
Preparation of a book gathering applications/developments by ETSAP community

Amit Kanudia KanORS-EMR
Excel-based sets definition management for VEDA BE and VEDA FE

Amit Kanudia KanORS-EMR
Automatic creation of step-wise linearized Supply Curves

12:00-13:00

Lunch Break

13:00-14:00

Session 7 (cont): Presentation of ETSAP Project Proposals

Nadia Maizi, Center for Applied Mathematics, MINES ParisTech, France
Capitalization and exchange plateforme

Hannah Daly, UCL
Modeling behaviour in TIMES and E4 models – State of the Art Workshop and Review

Evangelos Panos (PSI) and Socrates Kypreos (PSI); Per Ivar Helgesen (NTNU); Antti Lehtila (VTT)
Formulation of TIMES-MACRO in Mixed Complementarity (MCP)

Evangelos Panos, Kannan Ramachandran, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland Antti Lehtila, VTT, Finland
Introducing Electricity Dispatchability Features in TIMES Modelling Framework

Brian Ó Gallachóir, University College Cork
TIAM-MSA Phase 2a – Integrating Mitigation & Adaptation in Energy Systems Models

Brian Ó Gallachóir, University College Cork
TIAM-MSA Phase 2b – Beyond the Simple Production Function in MSA