Modelling quantifies and provides revelations into UK and global energy policies, and reigns over the global debate on the expenses of global warming mitigation. The first target of the Energy Systems theme is to bring together the best modelling experience in Great Britain and integrate it into a top class modelling research effort.

What are energy models?

Energy models are systematic tools to generates revelations into the potential evolution of the energy system, and its interaction with the economy and the environment. The United Kingdom energy-economic system is intensely complicated and therefore needs classy tools: approaches engineered to investigates different sides of the integrated system. As a result modelling rules the discussion on UK and global energy policies, for instance on the expenses of global warming mitigation.

What are these models used for?

The Energy Systems theme maintain and develops all-inclusive UK capacity in E4 (energy-economic-engineering-environment) modelling, significantly the technology targeted energy systems model family (MARKAL, MED, MARKAL-Macro), and the macro-econometric MDM-E3 and E3MG models. These models have been used to address a variety of UK energy policy issues including long term carbon reductions, the task of invention in the future energy system, the development of hydrogen sub-structures, and the uptake of energy conservation technologies and measures. International activities include the Intergovernmental Panel on global warming (IPCC) and the Japan-UK Low Carbon Societies research initiative.

Decarburization paths research of speeded up decarburization of the world E3 (energy-environment-economy) system from two thousand thru to 2050, with an all-inclusive enquiry of the expenses and advantages of the different decarburization options. This involves the development of a worldwide TIMES model (inheritor modelling platform to MARKAL) with a dedicated UK area. Key research questions include the effect on the United Kingdom of world resource flows, world emissions trading, and world technology invention.