IEA-ETSAP

Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program

The Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program (ETSAP) is an Implementing Agreement of the International Energy Agency (IEA), first established in 1976. It functions as a consortium of member country teams and invited teams that actively cooperate to establish, maintain, and expand a consistent multi-country energy/economy/environment/engineering (4E) analytical capability. Its backbone consists of individual national teams in nearly 70 countries, and a common, comparable and combinable methodology, mainly based on the MARKAL/TIMES family of models, permitting the compilation of long term energy scenarios and in-depth national, multi-country, and global energy and environmental analyses.

By statute, ETSAP meets twice a year to exchange experiences, discuss ways to improve the tools and manage the common activities. Local experts are invited to these meetings so that they are exposed to the paradigm and can interact with the ETSAP participants from their country. These meetings are also held in non-Annex I countries and they often lead to collaborative model building projects with local and third party funds.

The next ETSAP meeting will be held in Paris from Monday to Tuesday June 17-18 2013, right before the International Energy Workshop 2013 (more information available on the IEW website).
The regular ETSAP workshop will be held on Monday 17th June, the ETSAP-TIAM model meeting on Tuesday morning 18th June, and the Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday afternoon 18th June. Register here. A draft agenda is available here and basic logistics information here.

Are you interested in technical and economic details of (almost 50) energy supply and demand technologies? Visit our E-TechDS page

training [Archives]

IEA-ETSAP offers training courses at the introductory, intermediate and advanced levels (programs and conditions) to introduce new users to its model generators and user interfaces. If you are interested, please post your intent icons (with expectations) on the forum where groups of potential participants can form in different parts of the world.

The next ETSAP training will be held in Paris on 12-13-14 June 2013, the week before the next regular ETSAP workshop.
Two parallel courses are planned for this training session: one on VEDA-TIMES and one on ANSWER-TIMES. Both sessions will be conducted by existing users who are experienced energy systems modeling practitioners.
Please register here

jobs [Archives]

Two vacancy notices on job opportunities at the Institute for Energy and Transport (IET) of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra/ Italy. Electromobility/ Transport Modelling Expert (reference number 2013-IPR-F-30-000-1766)

Modelling Expert for Modelling Hydrogen in the energy system/ power market (reference number 2013-IPR-F-30-000-1767)

(Candidates interested in the published position should introduce an application form through the JRC recruitment web site) here

news [Archives]

Since September 2011, ETASP E-TechDS is working in cooperation with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) to develop and update briefs on renewable energy technologies.

Since January 1, 2012, George Giannakidis of the Greek Centre for Renewable Energy sources is the new Operating Agent of IEA-ETSAP and GianCarlo Tosato remains IEA-ETSAP project head.

A discussion forum has been set up to facilitate multilateral discussions on various ETSAP issues. ETSAP members are encouraged to register and participate.

ETSAP members can now access the ETSAP-TIAM model.

You may obtain a fully functional evaluation version of the MARKAL/TIMES, and GAMS, running under the ANSWER and/or VEDA "shells" upon execution of the ETSAP Letter of Agreement governing access to, and use of, ETSAP Tools. here

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