Energy - WITNESS

Note: The documentation of WITNESS is 'in preparation' and is not yet 'published'!

Model Documentation - WITNESS
Model scope and methods - WITNESS Model concept, solver and details - WITNESS Temporal dimension - WITNESS Spatial dimension - WITNESS Policy - WITNESS Socio-economic drivers - WITNESS Population - WITNESS Economic activity - WITNESS Macro-economy - WITNESS Trade - WITNESS Technological change - WITNESS Energy - WITNESS Energy resource endowments - WITNESS Fossil energy resources - WITNESS Uranium and other fissile resources - WITNESS Bioenergy - WITNESS Non-biomass renewables - WITNESS Energy conversion - WITNESS Electricity - WITNESS Heat - WITNESS Gaseous fuels - WITNESS Liquid fuels - WITNESS Solid fuels - WITNESS Grid, pipelines and other infrastructure - WITNESS Energy end-use - WITNESS Transport - WITNESS Residential and commercial sectors - WITNESS Industrial sector - WITNESS Other end-use - WITNESS Energy demand - WITNESS Technological change in energy - WITNESS Land-use - WITNESS Agriculture - WITNESS Forestry - WITNESS Land-use change - WITNESS Bioenergy land-use - WITNESS Other land-use - WITNESS Agricultural demand - WITNESS Technological change in land-use - WITNESS Emissions - WITNESS GHGs - WITNESS Pollutants and non-GHG forcing agents - WITNESS Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) options - WITNESS Climate - WITNESS Modelling of climate indicators - WITNESS Climate damages, temperature changes - WITNESS Non-climate sustainability dimension - WITNESS Air pollution and health - WITNESS Water - WITNESS Other materials - WITNESS Other sustainability dimensions - WITNESS Appendices - WITNESS Mathematical model description - WITNESS Data - WITNESS References - WITNESS
Corresponding documentation
AIM-Hub BLUES C3IAM COFFEE-TEA DNE21+ GCAM GEM-E3 GRACE IFs IMACLIM IMAGE MESSAGE-GLOBIOM POLES PROMETHEUS REMIND-MAgPIE TIAM-UCL WITCH
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Model information
Model link	https://www.witness4climate.org/world-environmental-impact-and-economics-scenarios/
Institution	Open-Source for Climate (OS-C), N/A, https://os-climate.org/transition-analysis/., Linux Foundation (LF), N/A, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/.
Solution concept	Systems dynamics based approach
Solution method	OptimizationSimulation-based optimization
Anticipation

The energy mix discipline acts at the top of energy models, with the goal to aggregate the information arriving from each energy, calculate the net production and the CO2 emissions per kwh of energy.

These information are then send back to technologies to compute technology production and prices.

In the basic WITNESS framework, investments in energy are optimally split among available production technologies to maximize energy production while minimizing CO2 emission under constraints