Reaching Paris Agreement Goal through CDR/DAC Development: a Compact OR Model

A compact operations research (OR) model is proposed to analyse the prospects of meeting the Paris Agreement targets when direct air capture technologies can be used or not. The main features of the model are (i) the representation of the economy and energy use with a nested constant elasticity of substitution production function; (ii) the … Read more

Assessment of Climate Agreements over the Long Term with Strategic Carbon Dioxyde Removal Activity

In this paper we extend a game theoretic meta-model used to assess the future of Paris agreement to the time horizon 2100 and we include in the strategic decisions of the negotiating coalitions the use of Carbon Dioxyde Removal (CDR) technologies. The meta-game model is calibrated through statistical emulation of GEMINI-E3, a world computable general … Read more

Meta-Modeling to Assess the Possible Future of Paris Agreement

In the meta-modeling approach one builds a numerically tractable dynamic optimization or game model in which the parameters are identified through statistical emulation of a detailed large scale numerical simulation model. In this paper we show how this approach can be used to assess the economic impacts of possible climate policies compatible with the Paris … Read more

Energy Technology Environment Model with Smart Grid and Robust Nodal Electricity Prices

This paper deals with the modeling of power flow in a transmission grid within the multi-sectoral multi-energy long-term regional energy model ETEM-SG. This extension of the model allows a better representation of demand response for flexible loads triggered by nodal marginal cost pricing. To keep the global model in the realm of linear program- ming … Read more

Proximal-ACCPM: a versatile oracle based optimization method

Oracle Based Optimization (OBO) conveniently designates an approach to handle a class of convex optimization problems in which the information pertaining to the function to be minimized and/or to the feasible set takes the form of a linear outer approximation revealed by an oracle. We show, through three representative examples, how difficult problems can be … Read more