Tag: WP1 – System integration

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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System integration in WITCH: preliminary work completed

System integration in WITCH: preliminary work completed

As described in the introductory presentation that I posted last month, my first main activity has been to improve the system integration modeling in WITCH, in order to align our model with the state of the art of Integrated Assessment Models as resulted from the ADVANCE project. After the preliminary literature review that I had conducted in the very first weeks of my project, I lately studied more in depth the different solutions developed by the other models and I…

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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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