Tag: WP1 – SWITCH

Deliverable 1.2 and periodic report completed

Deliverable 1.2 and periodic report completed

Finally in the past days I completed the last steps of the reporting activity which is required at the end of the first year of the project, i.e. Deliverable 1.2 and the periodic report. D1.2 is titled “Interactions and joint applications between the WITCH and the SWITCH models”. As I wrote in more than one post in the Research section (for instance here), the original objective of Work Package 1 was the modeling improvement of WITCH, concerning the system integration…

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FEEM internal seminar – II

FEEM internal seminar – II

Yesterday I took part in the first WITCH modeling meeting of my “new life” back to FEEM. As planned in my proposal, I gave a talk describing the activities that I carried out during my year at the University of California, Berkeley. My presentation was complemented by a talk by Simone, one of the two Master guys that I supervised in their dissertation in the past months and that has just started a three-month internship at FEEM. As predictable, my…

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Final seminar at UC Berkeley

Final seminar at UC Berkeley

As anticipated in the last Research post, yesterday I gave my final seminar at RAEL, in which I provided my colleagues with an overview of the work that I carried out during my American year. Gosh! Eight and a half months have passed since I held my introductory seminar: it seems yesterday, but it was March 15! By the way, I would have liked to have a bit more time to finalize some activities, but this was the last RAEL…

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WITCH-SWITCH scenarios

WITCH-SWITCH scenarios

As discussed in the last Research post, in the past weeks Marco, Simone, and I focused on the WITCH runs aimed at carrying out a comparison with the SWITCH scenarios for China. I remind that the objective of these runs is twofold: empirically validate the new modeling of grid and storage in WITCH, checking its results against those obtained with a more detailed energy model; build the scenario portfolio for the dynamics of decarbonization activity (last spring I had already…

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FEEM internal seminar – I

FEEM internal seminar – I

Yesterday I finally gave a seminar at FEEM summarizing the work that I carried out in the first quarter of my MERCURY project in Berkeley. In addition to the pleasure of meeting again my colleagues, I found the discussion very useful because they provided me with valuable comments and suggestions. As anticipated in my previous posts, the main topics that I dealt with were: WP1: System integration in WITCH WP1: Interactions and joint applications between WITCH and SWITCH (dynamics of…

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Dynamics of decarbonization: Scenario runs completed – Next steps

Dynamics of decarbonization: Scenario runs completed – Next steps

In the past days I completed the scenario runs for the dynamics of decarbonization research topic that I had mentioned in my post on April 30. As described there, I ran WITCH replicating the exercise framework outlined in the draft of the SWITCH paper, focusing on China (a country analyzed in the SWITCH runs as well) and on the global results, the latter for the sake of completeness. Today I met with Juan Pablo Carvallo, the lead author of the…

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System integration in WITCH: implementation completed – Next activities

System integration in WITCH: implementation completed – Next activities

In the past days I completed the implementation of the improved system integration modeling in WITCH, according to the guidelines that I had described in the April 22 post. Fortunately, the number of infeasibilities and computational problems has been acceptably limited, which allowed me not to waste too much time in annoying debugging operations. The only small, critical point concerns depreciation, that I had to leave pending. This aspect is in fact quite awkward because it substantially affects the modeling…

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Dynamics of decarbonization

Dynamics of decarbonization

In the introductory seminar I explained that my workplan for this year envisions two main research pathways that I would like to develop in parallel. Therefore, while mainly focusing on the system integration modeling in WITCH, in the past weeks I also began working on the SWITCH side. In particular, I am contributing to an activity that is being developed by the SWITCH team and that has not been finalized yet (the first draft of the relevant paper has already…

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Introductory seminar

Introductory seminar

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…

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Project outline

Project outline

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 –…

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