Training & Workshops

Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy) – Regular Winter Workshop

Title: 2002 – Regular Winter Workshop
Host: Politecnico di Torino
Venue: Politecnico di Torino, Via Paolo Borsellino 37
Date: October 28-30, 2002
Contacts: GianCarlo Tosato

Programme – Summary
October 28, 2002 – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1
October 29, 2002 – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 2
October 30, 2002 – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 3
October 30, 2002 (14.15 – 17.15) – ETSAP Executive Committee

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

October 31, 2002 – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 4

October 28, 2002

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1

9.00 – 9.10
Welcome

9.10 – 9.20
Phillip Tseng
Welcome to the Workshop and Presentation of the agenda

GianCarlo Tosato
Objectives of the technical meeting

9.30 – 11.00
Technical achievements of, and needs from MARKAL – TIMES users
Chair: Fridtjof Unander

Energy Technology Perspectives Project(IEA/ETP)
Systems for the Analysis of Global Energy Markets (SAGE)
Other multi-regional projects
National and Local Projects
Other Users (e.g., EPA goal programming, IES lumpy investments)

11.00 – 11.30
Coffee Break

11.30 – 12-45
Session on GAMS MARKAL Code Changes and TIMES
Chair: Gary Goldstein

Proposals for changes, update on improvements
SW updates and distribution rules; directory of users
TIMES: tutorial, validation, OBJ

12.45 – 14.15
Lunch Break

14.15 – 15.45
Special Session on Endogenous Technology Learning
Chair Leonardo Barreto

Starting point: present ETL sub-model using MIP
L. Barreto

Updates on: Learning and non learning parts of a technology
K. Smekens

Trade of learning commodities in multi-regional models
R. Loulou

Heuristics 1
R. Loulou

Heuristics 2
G.C. Tosato

15.45 – 16.00
Coffee Break

16.00 – 17.00
Session on Users’ Interfaces
Chair Amit Kanudia

VEDA-BE Improvements
VEDA-FE and related issues
Other shells

17.00 – 18.00
Session on Documentation
Chair Richard Loulou

Documentation of Global Multi-Regional projects
Towards a new documentation of MARKAL
Status of documentation for TIMES
Web site development

In the afternoon, in a parallel session, presentation of the Italian version of a Guidebook for Advanced Local Energy Planning, ALEP, Annex 33 of the IEA IA on ECBCS