Training & Workshops

International Energy Agency (Paris, France) – Regular Summer Workshop

Title: 2013 – Regular Summer Workshop
Host: International Energy Agency (IEA)
Venue: International Energy Agency (IEA), 9 rue de la Federation, Paris, France
Date:  June 17-18, 2013
Contacts:  Uwe Remme, George Giannakidis

Programme – Summary
June 17, 2013 (09:00-18:00) – ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1 & IRENA-REMAP session
June 18, 2013 (09:00-13:00) – ETSAP projects: Collaborations and Proposals
June 18, 2013 (14:00-17:00) – ETSAP Executive Committee

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

June 12-14, 2013 (09:00-17:00) – Basic training course on VEDA-TIMES and ANSWER/TIMES

June 17, 2013 (09:00-18:00)

ETSAP Regular Workshop Day 1 & IRENA-REMAP session

9:00-9:10

Welcome IEA

9:10-10:30

Session 1: Country Models
Chair:Anna Krook-Riekkoka

Paul Dodds, UCL Energy Institute, University College London
The UK TIMES model

Ms. Kuo Ching-Wei, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
The Application of TIMES Model in Assessing the Decline in Taiwan’s Energy Intensity

Ms. Akram Fakhri, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Modeling regional impacts of large-scale waste heat utilisation – the case of south-western Sweden

Roman Podolets and Oleksandr Diachuk, Institute for Economics and Forecasting, UNAS, Ukraine
Investment requirements and benefits arising from energy efficiency and renewable energy policies in Ukraine.

10:30-10:50

Morning Coffee Break

10:50-13:00

Session 2 (IRENA-ETSAP Joint Session): REMAP 2030

Chair:Dolf Gielen

Dolf Gielen, IRENA, Director, IICT-Bonn
Introduction to the REMAP 2030 project

Global RE cost supply curves
Helena Cuesta Cabal, CIEMAT


Edi Assoumou – Ecole des Mines de Paris


Tom Kober, ECN


Maryse Labriet ENERIS/KANORS (Global,US)

Regional/national RE cost supply curves
Michael Wiesmeth, IER (Germany)


Maryse Labriet ENERIS/KANORS (India)


Maria Gaeta ENEA (Italy)


Brian O Gallachoir UCC, (Ireland)

Hiroshi Hamasaki, Fujitsu Research Institute (FRI), Centre for International Public Policy Studies (CIPPS), Japan


Julia Seixas, FCT, UNL (Portugal)


Sofia Simoes JRC (The Netherlands)

Open discussion on opportunities for collaboration

13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:40

Session 3: Renewables, Electricity, Storage and Trading
Chair: Kenneth Karlsson

Dr. Joe DeCarolis, North Carolina State University, USA
Assessment of Electric Drive Vehicle Deployment in the U.S. Through Mid-Century

Mr. Paul Deane, UCC
The Electrification of Residential Heating in TIMES-A case study in Ireland

Ms. Sofia Simoes, Institute for Energy and Transport, JRC-EC
Assessing the role of storage in EU28 using the JRC EU TIMES model

Mr. Rajesh Mathew Pattupara, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Influence of long term electricity sector developments in Europe on the Swiss electricity system: Risks and Opportunities for electricity trading

Mr. Victor Nian, National University of Singapore
SG-TIMES Model on Singapore’s Electricity Sector


15:40-16:00

Afternoon Coffee Break

16:00-18:00

Session 4: Economics Energy and Environment
Chair:Brian O’Galachoir

Kenneth Karlsson, DTU Management Engineering, Denmark
A Danish TIMES-CGE system

Per Ivar Helgesen ENOVA, Kari Espegren, Arne Lind IFE, Norway
Analysing effects of energy policy by linking the TIMES-Norway with a multi-regional SCGE model

James Glynn, UCC, Ireland
Energy systems models and macro-economic models – Soft linking Irish TIMES and IMF’s GIMF DSGE model to examine energy security

Ms. Patricia Fortes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
HybTEP – Hybrid technological economic platform to assess climate and energy policies

Roman Kanala, Universite de Geneve, Institut des Sciences de l’environmnet, Switzerland
First modeling insights on Social TIMES Romania country model

Peggy Mischke, DTU Technical University of Denmark, Energy Systems Analysis Division, Jing Li, African Development Bank
Understanding mathematical modelling tools to evaluate China’s future energy-economy interactions – a review of the Chinese perspective

June 18, 2013 (09:00-13:00)

ETSAP projects: Collaborations and Proposals

9:30-10:40

Session 5: Modelling Issues
Chair: Maryse Labriet

Alessandro Chiodi, Trevor Donnellan, James Breen, Paul Deane, Maurizio Gargiulo and Brian P O Gallachoir UCC, Ireland
Modelling Agriculture with the TIMES Energy System model generator

Vatsal Bhatt, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Long-term Energy-Water Nexus Analysis

Ms. Anar Ibrayeva, NURIS, Kazakhstan
Climate change domestic mitigation policies in Kazakhstan: a technical economic evaluation

Hannah DALY , Kate SCOTT , John BARRETT & Neil STRACHAN, UCL, UK
Modelling indirect emissions within UK TIMES

Mr Sebastien Postic, MINES ParisTech
Long Term Assessment of energy efficiency solutions and application to active control in the residential sector

10:40-11:40

ETSAP – TIAM Collaboration
Chair:Markus Blesl

Olivier Dessens, Gabrial Anandarajah, UCL Energy Institute, University College London
Role of unconventional gas on limiting climate change warming to 2°C in 2100: a study with the TIAM-UCL energy system integrated assessment model.

Tom Kober, ECN
Pathway to Reach a 2°C Climate Stabilisation

Markus Blesl
Results of the ETSAP TIAM cooperation phase I and the next steps in phase II

11:40-12:40

Brunch Break

12:40-13:40

Session 6: Presentation of ETSAP Project Proposals
Chair:George Giannakidis
(5 mins for each presentation followed by a brief discussion)

S. Kypreos, A. Lehtila
Model enhancement and peer review publication describing the TIAM-MACRO MODEL (TMM)

M. Blesl, T. Kober
Third Phase of the Collaboration for a common ETSAP-TIAM by partners – focus: Improvement of the regional representation of Europe in ETSAP-TIAM

B. O Gallachoir
Linking TIMES and CGE Models – Moving towards best practice

J. DuerinckImprovement of model structure for iron & steel industry in TIAM

G. Simbolotti, G.C. Tosato
ETechDS Data Normalization and Handling for Modeling Use (2nd phase)

M. Gargiulo
ETSAP VEDA-TIMES Advanced DEMO Models

P. Dodds
Visualisation of TIAM and other TIMES/MARKAL Reference Energy Systems

K. Tigas
Improving the electricity sector planning in TIMES in view of large scale RES penetration