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Energy Planning


The focus of the research activities in Energy Planning and Sustainable Development is on research and advisory services on energy planning, sustainable energy, sustainable development that cover technical, economic, environmental and social aspects and issues. Primary among these are concerns that step from the impending climate change and the efforts to initiate adequate adaptation and mitigation actions. Specific areas of current interest include:

  • Estimation and inventoring of air emissions from the various sectors and activities.
  • Climate change mitigation policies and measures
  • Energy supply and demand modeling, forecast and planning and development of relevant databases.
  • Assessment of energy externalities.
  • Cost-benefit analysis of policy options and measures in the fields of energy and environment.
  • Assessment of projected climate parameters on a regional basis.
  • Estimation of climate change impacts on the various sectors of economic activity (e.g. agriculture, energy, etc.).
  • Flexible Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol (Emissions Trading, Joint Implementation, Clean Development Mechanism).

 

Services

IERSD provides the following services to Greek ministries (principally the Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works and the Ministry for Development):

  • Participation in meetings, technical and political of relevant international organisations (e.g. UNFCCC, OECD, IEA etc.) and associated expert groups.
  • Preparation of the annual National Inventories of Greenhouse Gases and other air emissions required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  • Preparation of National Communications required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
  • Technical support and participation in the meetings of the Working Party on Climate Change of the European Council and the official meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC and its Subsidiary Bodies (SBSTA-SBI).

 

Activities

The Group supports the above-mentions activities through the development and use of the following computational tools:

  • ENPEP (analytical tool for integrated energy/electricity system planning)
  • MAGICC & SCENGEN (climatic model)
  • INTERNATIONAL FUTURES (global macroeconomic model)
  • GTAP (model for quantitative analysis of global economic issues)
  • COLLECTER (database application based on the CORINAIR methodology for the compilation of an emission inventory)
  • COPERT (computational tool for the calculation of emissions from the road transport sector)
  • DSSAT (model for estimating the impacts on agriculture resulting from climate change as well as alternative cultivation techniques)
  • RAINS (simulation tool for the investigation of the impacts of acidification and eutrophication and the evaluation of alternative abatement strategies)
  • Multicriteria decision-aid tools (ELECTRE I-IV, ELECTRE TRI, PROMETHEE, MACBETH).
  • GTMAX (analytical model for optimizing the operation of power systems in the new liberalized environment)
  • SPSS (tool for statistical analysis)

Details of scientific and technical papers, reports and other relevant information on items of current interest can be found in the Climate Change page of NOA (www.climate.noa.gr/)

 

 

 

 

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