Heat - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM

Model Documentation - MESSAGE-GLOBIOM
Corresponding documentation
AIM-Hub BLUES C3IAM COFFEE-TEA DNE21+ GCAM GRACE IFs IMAGE MESSAGE-GLOBIOM POLES PROMETHEUS TIAM-UCL WITCH WITNESS
Previous versions
Archive of MESSAGE-GLOBIOM version 1.0
Model information
Model link	https://docs.messageix.org http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/message-globiom/ https://github.com/iiasa/message ix https://github.com/iiasa/ixmp
Institution	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, http://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at.
Solution concept	General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method	Optimization
Anticipation

A number centralized district heating technologies based on fossil and renewable energy sources are represented in MESSAGE (see <xr id="tab:MESSAGE-GLOBIOM_heat"/>). Similar to coupled heat and power (CHP) technologies that are described in the Electricity section of MESSAGE-GLOBIOM, these heating plants feed low temperature heat into the district heating system that is then used in the end-use sectors. In addition, there are (decentralized) heat generation options in Industrial sector of MESSAGE-GLOBIOM and Residential and commercial sectors of MESSAGE-GLOBIOM.

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List of centralized heat generation technologies represented in MESSAGE by energy source

Energy Source	Technology
coal	coal district heating plant
oil	light fuel oil district heating plant
gas	gas district heating plant
biomass	solid biomass district heating plant
geothermal	geothermal district heating plant

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