April 4 - 7, 2005
Location: Taipei, Taiwan

April 4, Morning

Special Topics

8:30 - 9:00

Registration

9:00 - 9:10

Opening: Dr. GianCarlo Tosato, Conference Committee Chair

9:10 - 9:30

Welcome Speech
Dr. Rong-i Wu, Vice Premier, Executive Yuan
Dr. Jiunn-rong Yeh, Executive Director
National Sustainable Development Council, Executive Yuan
Dr. Juu-en Chang, Minister, TEPA

9:30 - 9:50

Welcome and Introduction of ETSAP
Speaker: Dr. Hertsel Labib, Chairman of ETSAP

9:50 - 10:15

Keynote Speech
Speaker: Dr. Robert Dixon, Council on Environmental Quality
Executive Office of the United States President

10:15 - 10:40

Coffee Break

10:40 - 11:05

Private Financing for Certified Emission Reductions
Owen Carroll, SUNY Stony Brook and Magnet Group, US
John Lee, Brookhaven National laboratory, US

11:05 - 11:30

Regional Energy and Environmental Issues In Central America
Marco Gonzalez, Central American Commission on Energy and Development, CA

11:30 - 11:55

Technology dynamics, Energy Scenarios and Social perspectives
GianCarlo Tosato, IEA/ETSAP, Project head,Italy

11:55 - 12:20

The Effect of Carbon Tax on CO2 Emission and the Economy of Taiwan -  An Application of DGEMT Model
Chi-Yuan Liang, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

12:20 - 12:45

CARIBELATE: An Organizational Template for Incubation and Diffusion of GHG Emissions Reduction Technologies
Edward Linky, US Environmental Protection Agency
John Lee, Brookhaven National laboratory, US

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch (Host: TEPA)

April 4, Afternoon

Global and Regional Modeling

14:15 - 14:40

Energy Policy Analysis Using MARKAL in the ASEAN Region
Hugh Bannister, EPSAP, Australia

14:40 - 15:05

Regionalization of US DOE MARKAL
Paul Friley, Firas Barazi, and John Lee,
Brookhaven National laboratory, US

15:05 - 15:30

Modelling of Regional Energy Collaboration in the Nordic Countries
Erik Ahlgren, Anna Krook Riekkola, and Thomas Unger, Sweden

15:30 - 15:55

NE-MARKAL: An Energy/Economic/Environment Framework for Exploring
Regional Policy Options in the Northeast United States
Gary Kleiman and Ren-Tseng Young
Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, US

15:55 - 16:20

Coffee Break

16:20 - 16:45

Recent developments of World MARKAL/TIMES Scenarios Done at GERAD
Maryse Labriet, Group for Research in Decision Analysis, Canada

16:45 - 17:10

Integrated Energy Planning and GHG Emission Reduction in Central America: Development of a Regional MARKAL Model
Ta-hsiung Lin, Soon-Ching Ho, Hui-Chen Chien,TEPA Taiwan, JamesLu and Marsha Tsai, ITRI, John Lee and Vatsal Bhatt, and Ann Reisman
National Laboratory, US

18:00 - 20:00

Welcome Dinner (Host: TEPA)

April 5, Morning

National and Local Modeling

9:00 - 9:25

The strategies of TEPA for Climate Change and the role Markal Model plays
Fung-Luh Yeh, Soon-Ching Ho, Hui-Chen Chien, TEPA Taiwan

9:25 - 9:50

An Assessment of the China Power-Generation Sector
Socrates Kypreos and Robert Krakowski, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

9:50 - 10:15

Analysis of Taiwan's Future Energy Structure under the Clean Energy
Development Goal, Bureau of Energy, Taiwan

10:15 - 10:40

A Model Analysis of Energy Network in Zero Emission Industrial Park
Shimazaki Yoichi, University of Yamanashi, Japan

10:40 - 11:05

Current MARKAL Applications in Taiwan
Jhy-Ming Lu, Miao-Shan Tsai,
Kuei-Lan Chou and Yu-Feng Chou, ERL, ITRI,Taiwan

11:05 - 11:25

Coffee Break

11:25 - 11:50

A Portfolio Approach in Local Energy Planning: The Case of New York City
John Lee, Vatsal Bhatt, Edward Linky, and Owen Carroll, US.

11:50 - 12:15

An Economy-wide Analysis of Policy Responses of Taiwan to Stabilize CO2 Emissions
Shih-Hsun Hsu, Han-Pang Su, Hsing-Chun Lin, and Du-Hwa Li, TaiwanUniversity, Taiwan

12:15 - 12:40

MARKAL Modeling in Vietnam

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch (Host: TEPA)

April 5, Afternoon

National and Local Modeling (Continued)

14:00 - 14:25

MARKAL Modeling in Cambodia

14:25 - 14:50

MARKAL Modeling in Myanmar
Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning

14:50 - 15:15

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Luis Ake , Belize

15:15 - 15:40

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Fernando Alvarado , Costa Rico

15:40 - 16:05

Coffee Break

16:05 - 16:30

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Salvador Rivas , El Salvador

16:30 - 16:55

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Gerardo Salgado, Honduras

16:55 - 17:20

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Carlos Mansilla, Guatemala

19:00

Welcome Dinner (Host: BOE)

April 6, Morning

Modeling Tools

9:00 - 9:25

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Marina Stadthagen , Nicaragua

9:25 - 9:50

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Eduardo Reyes, Panama

9:50 - 10:15

Issues in Energy and Environmental Planning
Tumentsogt Tsevegmid, Mongolia

10:15 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:35

Mathematical Tools for Economic Programming Energy Models
GianCarlo Tosato, IEA/ETSAP and. Alain Haurie , Switzerland

11:35 - 12:30

Panel Discussion: Issues on Modelling Needs and International Cooperation, Concluding Remarks

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch (Host: TEPA) April 6, Morning

13:30 - 15:30

Optional Site Visit to Hsinchu Science Park (HSP) (Host: ITRI)

19:30 - 20:30

Farewell Dinner (Host: ETSAP)

April 7

Invitation Only Meetings