6-th ETSAP-VII Meeting, 8-12 October 2001, Summary and Proceedings

6th ETSAP-VII Meeting, 8-12 October 2001, Summary and Proceedings

Location: Paris, France

The Proceedings of the Workshop have been recently completed and have been sent to the ETSAP representatives and to the Workshop participants. Under certain conditions (e.g. handling and administration costs), the proceedings are also available to other interested persons. For further information, please contact the ETSAP Secretariat, Manuela Loos (loos@ecn.nl).

Introduction | Papers (incl. links to PDF files)

Previous Workshops:
15-17 May 2001, Venice, Italy
16-19 October 2000, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland
17-19 May 2000, Paris, France
1-5 November 1999, Petten, the Netherlands
29 April - 4 May 1999, Washington, DC
26 October - 28 October 1998, Antalya, Turkey

Introduction to the Proceedings

The Fall 2001 workshop of ETSAP, at the same time the last one under this current Annex VII, was held in Paris, hosted by the IEA. Due to the cancellation of the meeting at the planned venue, Beijing, China, the meeting had to be rescheduled at very short notice and the IEA location in Paris was a very convenient alternative. ETSAP also celebrated its 25 anniversary at this occasion.

The emphasis of this meeting lay on the Energy Technology Perspectives, ETP, a major modeling undertaking lead and sponsored by the IEA. The ambitious goal of this project involves many of ETSAP’s partners and draws heavily upon gained experience and recent developments in our community. There are implications on the modeling side with the development and application of a multi region global TIMES learning model and on the modeler’s side for database set up, review and improvement. The steps and tasks in the process are now well defined and the project can enter its realisation and be finalised as foreseen by September 2002.

During the - shortened - regular ETSAP meeting, we received insights in various models and their results, like the WEO model of the IEA, the German Times application and the Belgian MACGem experience. IRG, GERAD and ABARE in turn presented updates on the software front. Taking into account the opportunity of being at the IEA, there was an interesting session on insights and updates on activities, relevant for ETSAP, in IEA non-member countries. Also the discussions during and after these presentations clarified much and were aimed at exploring how to involve developing countries as potential future ETSAP members.

Plans for future work, both the finalisation of the current Annex VII, with a summary report to be published by the end of this year, and the plans for the next Annex VIII were discussed at several occasions and endorsed.

This meeting was also the last one for Tom Kram, for 12 years he has fulfilled the task of project head with lots of commitment and dedication and to everyone’s satisfaction. His new job at RIVM will allow him to remain in contact with the ETSAP community.

The Executive Committee meeting closed the official end of the workshop, and inter alia further discussed the items brought up during the workshop and also dealt with the succession of the Operating Agent for the next Annex. Being not in number however, the Executive Committee could not take any decision and the matters discussed are referred to a written procedure at a later stage.