Joint Workshop with ETSAP

After event information

Presentations and abstracts

Platform: MS TEAMS kindly provided by ESMIA Consultants Inc.

Moderator: Etienne Bernier, Natural Resources Canada

• 7:00 EDT/13:00 CEST: Welcome Address
  • Kathleen Vaillancourt (presentation)
    ETSAP TCP Operating Agent and Founder and President of ESMIA Consultants, Canada
  • Johanna Mossberg (presentation)
    IETS TCP Chair and Head of Bioeconomy Arena at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
• 7:10 EDT/13:10 CEST: TIMES Crash Course
  Speaker: Kathleen Vaillancourt, ETSAP (presentation)
  • Basics of the TIMES modelling platform
  • Practicalities and trade-offs to get the right level of industrial sector detail
  • What can make industrial decarbonization trajectories discordant between models
• 7:25 EDT/13:25 CEST: Short presentations from ETSAP community illustrating decarbonization pathways for industrial sectors within an economy-wide energy system modelling framework
  • 7:25 EDT/13:25 CEST: Markus Blesl
    Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Energy Use, Germany
    Steel in the automotive industry – Contribution of material efficiency towards industrial decarbonization: An Analysis with ETSAP-TIAM (abstract)
  • 7:45 EDT/13:45 CEST: Karl Vilén
    IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden
    Impacts of the Energy System of an Island – Transition of the Cement Industry to Carbon Neutrality (abstract)
  • 8:05 EDT/14:05 CEST: Laura Tagliabue
    Research on the Energy System – RSE S.P.A., Italy
    Industrial Sector Development in the TIMES-RSE Model (abstract) (presentation)
  • 8:25 EDT/14:25 CEST: Erik Sandberg
    Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden
    Challenges in building a detailed industrial sector implementation in TIMES
• 8:45 EDT/14:45 CEST: 10-15 minute break
• 9:00 EDT/15:00 CEST: Short presentations from IETS community /stakeholders illustrating various efforts to model industrial decarbonization
  • 9:00 EDT/15:00 CEST: Kira West
    TNO, Netherlands
    Detailed industrial sector modelling in a national energy system optimization model of the Netherlands (abstract) (presentation)
  • 9:20 EDT/15:20 CEST: Khaled Al-Dabbas
    Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany
    Techno-Economic Analysis of the Impact of EU Net-Zero Industry on the Energy System (abstract)
  • 9:40 EDT/15:40 CEST: Sophie Knöttner and Anton Beck
    AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
    Decarbonization pathways for industrial production sites through mathematical optimization (abstract)
  • 10:00 EDT/16:00 CEST: Daniel Flórez-Orrego
    EPFL, Switzerland
    Process Integration for Industry Decarbonization: Enabling a Shared Database of Ex-Ante Models (abstract)
• 10:20 EDT/16:20 CEST: Discussion with both sets of panelists
  Moderator: Anna Krook-Riekkola, ETSAP
  • What are the key strengths of the modelling approaches presented?
  • How can those approaches feed each other to improve industrial decarbonization modelling?
  • What specific aspects deserve more attention to accurately assess the industry sector potential for carbon removal, electrical grid balancing and other system-wide interactions?
  • Would it be worthwhile to collaborate on modelling data collection?
• 10:50 EDT/16:50 CEST: Concluding remarks
  • Workshop summary and identification of key topics for follow-up workshops, with the audience invited to chime in in the chat as well
• 11:00 EDT/17:00 CEST: End of webinar

An online workshop will be held on April 10, 2025, on the topic of Industrial sector modelling in energy system models. The workshop is co-organized by two IEA Technology Collaboration Programs (TCP): the Industrial Energy-Related Technologies and Systems (IETS TCP) and the Energy Technology Analysis System Programme (ETSAP). The workshop aims to develop a common understanding of the challenges of industrial transition towards decarbonization and of the utility of different approaches to modelling this transition, with a focus on energy system-wide interactions such as how industrial decarbonization can potentially contribute to carbon removal (negative emissions) and electrical grid balancing.

NB! Call for abstracts is now closed.

More information about the workshop is available in the draft Agenda.

Registration for the Workshop is now open. Simply contact the ETSAP Operating Agent, kathleen@esmia.ca, and kindly request the TEAMS invite.

Programme Outline

7h30 EDT, 13h30 CEST: General introduction

• 5-10 minutes welcome address from an ExCo member at ETSAP and IETS
• 10-15 minutes Crash course on how energy system models work and why they may
  sometimes provide discordant results about industrial decarbonization pathways.

8h00 EDT, 14h00 CEST: Short presentations (3x 25 minutes or 4x 20 minutes TBD) from ETSAP community illustrating decarbonization pathways for industrial sectors within an economywide energy system modelling framework.

9h15 EDT, 15h15 CEST: 10-15 minute break

9h30 EDT, 15h30 CEST: Short presentations (4x 20 minutes) from IETS community
/stakeholders illustrating various efforts to model industrial decarbonization.

10h50 EDT, 16h50 CEST: Discussion with both sets of panelists around the following questions:

• What are the key strengths of the modelling approaches presented?
• How can those approaches feed each other to improve industrial decarbonization
  modelling?
• What specific aspects deserve more attention to accurately assess the industry sector
  potential for carbon removal, electrical grid balancing and other system-wide
  interactions?
• Would it be worthwhile to collaborate on modelling data collection?

11h20 EDT, 17h20 CEST: Concluding remarks

• Workshop summary and identification of key topics for follow-up workshops, with the audience invited to chime in in the chat as well

11h30 EDT, 17h30 CEST: End of webinar

For more information, please contact Etienne Bernier , ETSAP, or Johanna Mossberg, IETS TCP.