The Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme (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.

ETSAP holds open workshops twice a year, to discuss methodologies, disseminate results, and provide opportunities for new users to get acquainted with advanced energy-technologies, systems and modeling developments.

As part of its outreach activities, ETSAP collaborates with many other research teams throughout the World, participates in various global forums (EMF 22, for example), and makes its Newsletter  and its Workshop Proceedings available online to the public at large.

• Next ETSAP workshop and Executive Committee meeting (Draft Program) will be held in Paris, at the IEA headquarters, on July 3-4, 2008, back to back with the IEW. For getting the badge necessary to attend the meetings, please register.
• ETSAP is now officially involved in the activities of the ‘Consortium of Integrated Assessment Modeling Communities’ founded by IIASA (Austria), EMF (Stanford) and NIES (Japan).
• The Energy Economics Group of PSI (Switzerland) is seeking to recruit an Energy economy modeler and analyst. More Information
• 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. Contact Gary Goldstein (ggoldstein@irgltd.com), ETSAP Primary Systems Coordinator for more information on acquiring the systems, or contact the developers for more information on ANSWER (Ken Noble) or VEDA (Amit Kanudia)
• An outline of the global 15-region TIMES Integrated Assessment Model (ETSAP-TIAM) is now available .

   

   

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