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 IEA-ETSAP meetings will be held in Cape Town (South Africa), back to back with IEW2012, on June 2012 as follows: 13-15 training (see below); Monday 18, ETSAP-TIAM; 19-21 IEW; Friday 22, regular ETSAP workshop; Saturday 23, ExCo. Please submit your paper by February 1, 2012 following the instructions given at here. Please register at the same web site.
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, or register at (registration form).
Next base level training courses will be held:
Since January 1, 2012, Mr. George Giannakidis of the Greek Centre for Renewable Energy sources is the new Operating Agent of IEA-ETSAP and Mr. GianCarlo Tosato remains IEA-ETSAP project head.
Proceedings of the Athens Workshop (Nov 7-12, 2011) are available now.
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.
The first draft factsheets of the IEA-ETSAP Energy Technology Data Source are now posted at
www.iea-etsap.org/E-techDS.
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
