Training & Workshops

Special Workshop on Modelling the Water Energy Nexus (Zurich, Switzerland)


Title: 2017 – Special Workshop on Modelling the Water Energy Nexus
Host: Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Venue: Main Building HG, Room D 7.1 and D 1.2, ETH Zürich
Date:  December 13, 2017
Contacts: Tom Kober
Partner: The Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research – Supply of Electricity (SCCER SoE)

Programme – Detailed

8.30 – 9:00
Registration

9:00 – 9:15
Tom Kober, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Welcome

9:15 – 11:00

Session 1 (Main Building HG, Room D 7.1)

Paolo Burlando , Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH
Zürich
Integrated Modelling of Hydropower Systems and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Gary Goldstein, DecisionWare, LLC – on behalf of the World Bank, United States
The Importance of the Water-Energy Nexus for Emerging Countries

Monica Alejandra Altamirano, Deltares, Netherlands
Developing a multi-scale approach for the quantification and analysis of the trade-offs in the nexus. A nexus stress test for investments in water, energy and food sectors


11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00

Session 2 (Main Building HG, Room D 7.1)

Morten Andreas Dahl Larsen, Technical University of Denmark,
Denmark
Data Challenges for Analysing the Water-Energy Nexus

Sofia Simões, CENSE DCEA-FCT/Universidade NOVA, Portugal
Enhancement of the ETSAP E-Techs Database with water consumption and withdrawal data

Rocco De Miglio, E4SMA Ltd., Italy and Wouter Nijs, EU JRC, Netherlands
The new water module of the JRC-EU-TIMES model

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 16:00

Session 3 (Main Building HG, Room D 1.2)

Vignesh Sridharan, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Climate, Land, Energy and Water Nexus (CLEWs) – Integrated resource assessment at different scales

Victor Nechifor, University College London, United Kingdom
Energy mix data for global economic analysis of water scarcity impacts

Sofia Simões, CENSE DCEA-FCT/Universidade NOVA, Portugal
Assessing water needs for power production in Iberian Peninsula at watershed level

Luis Dias, CENSE FCT-UNL, Portugal
The use of TIMES to model city water and energy systems – Insights from the application to Evora and Almada municipalities

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00
Session 4 (Main Building HG, Room D 1.2)

Helena Cabal, CIEMAT, Spain
Impact of the Spanish electricity system transition on water resources using energy modelling and life cycle assessment

Marat Karatayev, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
Impact of future energy policy on water resources in Kazakhstan

Vera Sehn, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Energy-Water-Land Nexus in Germany