Despite all the hitches that I have been experiencing in these days, of course my research project continues. The topic on which I have been focusing after my return to Berkeley is the improvement of WITCH. In particular, after completing the system integration part in the first half of the year, we have now started working on storage. I say “we” because during my period at FEEM in June/July I began to work as mentor of two students, Marco and…
As I mentioned in my previous post, the past weeks have been dedicated to the study of the SWITCH model, in addition to a deep review of the state of the art of the power system modeling in Integrated Assessment Models. This allowed me to identify both the possible solutions to improve the WITCH model offered by the IAM literature and the potential routes to implement an integration between WITCH and SWITCH. Hence, I was able to define more in…
The abstract of the project is reported in the About section. This post reports a detailed outline of the Work Packages and the Tasks. WP 1 – Power sector modeling improvements (UC Berkeley) Task 1.1 – Training on the SWITCH model Task 1.2 – System integration of Variable Renewable Energies (VRE) Task 1.3 – Electricity storage Task 1.4 – Electrical grid Task 1.5 – Electricity trade WP 2 – Technology prospects: EU policy scenario (FEEM) Task 2.1 –…