Technological change in energy - IMACLIM

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Model Documentation - IMACLIM

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    Model information
    Model link
    Institution Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED), France, http://www.centre-cired.fr., Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et de Sciences Humaines (SMASH), France, http://www.smash.fr.
    Solution concept General equilibrium (closed economy)
    Solution method SimulationImaclim-R is implemented in Scilab, and uses the fonction fsolve from a shared C++ library to solve the static equilibrium system of non-linear equations.
    Anticipation Recursive dynamics: each year the equilibrium is solved (system of non-linear equations), in between two years parameters to the equilibrium evolve according to specified functions.

    Technological change is represented in a variety of ways in Imaclim-R:

    • For technologies that are explicitly represented, i.e. power generation technologies there are cost-reducing learning-by-doing factors. See Section on electricity and private vehicles (see Section on transport.
    • For sectors where explicit portfolios of technologies are not represented, the model nonetheless covers (price induced) endogenous energy efficiency improvements and substitutions with other sectors. See Section on productive sectors.