Location: Politecnico di Torino (Italy), 28-31 October 2002
New Buildings of Politecnico di Torino, Via Paolo Borsellino 37
(car entrance at Via P.C. Boggio 71/A or Via P.C. Boggio 59/C)
(main entrance of Politecnico di Torino: Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24)

The Programme of the Workshop is as follows. (pdf file 82 KB)

Monday, 28.10	Technical meeting
9.00 - 9.10	Politecnico di Torino Welcome
9.10 - 9.20	Phillip Tseng Welcome to the Workshop and Presentation of the agenda
9.20 - 9.30	GianCarlo Tosato Objectives of the technical meeting (pdf file 18 KB)
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)(pdf file 109 KB)
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) (pdf file 251 KB) 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) Discussion (pdf file 51 KB)
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 (pdf file 4 KB)
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 (pdf file 41 KB)

(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) (for program and proceedings, see www.iea-alep.pz.cnr.it)

Tuesday 29.10,	Contributions to Multi-Regional Global Energy Modelling
Session 1:	Status of the Projects
Chair:	Socrates Kypreos
9.00-9.15	Introduction
9.15-9.45	John Conti, USEIA, Director, Office of International, Economic, and Greenhouse Gases Division Objectives and Status of the SAGE Project (pdf file 102 KB)
9.45-10.15	Fidtjof Unander, IEA Secretariat, EET Objective and Status of the ETP Project
10.15-10.45	Socrates Kypreos, PSI Global modelling activities at PSI with GMM and MERGE-ETL ( pdf file 155 KB)
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee Break
11.15-11.30	Barry Kapilow-Cohen, USEIA Developments and Preliminary Results of the SAGE Project (pdf file 56 KB)
11.30-12.20	Dolf Gielen IEA Secretariat, EET Developments and Preliminary Results of the ETP Project (pdf file 169 KB)
12.20-12.50	Leonardo Barreto, IIASA/ECS Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies Project: current global modeling activities.(pdf file 732 KB)
12.45 - 14.15	Lunch Break
Session 2:	MARKAL/TIMES multi-regional models: availability, use and implications
Chair:	Phillip Tseng
15.10-15.30	Koen Smekens Database review of ETP Western Europe (pdf file 38 KB)
15.30-15.50	John C. Lee "MARKAL Outreach Programs in Central America, Bolivia, and Puerto Rico". (pdf file 154 KB)
15.50-16.10	Gary Goldstein APEC Renewables Study (Australia, China, Japan and US) NE-MARKAL (EPA/NESCAUM)
16.10 - 16.30	Coffee Break
16.30-16.45	G.C. Tosato 1st ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) - Australia MARKAL Regional Users' Group (pdf file 34 KB)
16.45-17.15	Richard Loulou The use of Global MARKAL for computing various equilibria (pdf file 41 KB)
16.00 - 17.00	Round Table discussion (planned, did not take place) - Multi - Regional global models: communalities and differences - Advancement in input and output data management - Technology database / RES modelling details for IPCC studies - Scenario Generation and Calibration to statistics - Links between socio-economy and bottom-up models
Wednesday, 30.10	ETSAP regular workshop (morning)
9.00 - 12.45	National contributions
Chair:	Fridtjof Unander
9.00-9.40	Peter Taylor Long term, low carbon options for the UK (pdf file 316 KB)
9.40-10.10	Olev Liik Mart Landsberg Activities with MARKAL in Estonia (pdf file 728 KB)
10.10-10.40	Osamu Sato Analytical Studies on Nuclear Energy in Japan (pdf file 231 KB)
10.40 - 11.00	Coffee Break
11.00-11.30	Jan Duerinck (VITO, Be) "Contributions with Markal to the Flemish research program to reduce emissions of SO2, NOx, NH3 and VOC. Practical applications for the electricity sector and steel sector " (pdf file 109 KB)
11.30-12.00	Uwe Remme, Markus Blesl Recent modelling studies at IER (pdf file 328 KB)
12.00-12.10	Antti Lehtila Finland:Current status/future plans for TIMES model development
12.10-12.30	Francesco Gracceva, Mario Contaldi Contribution of MARKAL and M-M to the 3rd Italian Communication to UNFCCC (pdf file 293 KB)
12.30-12.50	E. Lavagno, M. Gargiulo, D. Scaramuccia Analysis of the transport sector in Torino using TIMES (pdf file 629 KB)
12.45 - 14.15	Lunch Break
Wednesday, 30.10	ETSAP Executive Committee (14.15 - 17.15) Meeting restricted to Contracting Parties representatives
Thursday, 31.10	ETSAP regular workshop Continuation of pending sessions