Joint Workshops with ETSAP

Following the joint Workshop on Industrial sector modelling in energy system models on 10 April 2025, three follow-up events will be held later this year:

POSTPONED: Industrial decarbonization through carbon-free sources of process heat

POSTPONED: Industrial decarbonization through bioenergy and CO2 capture and storage

1 December: Industrial decarbonization through non-energy changes (process chemistry, material efficiency and innovative pathways)

Presentations available

The registration is now close, please contact  etienne.bernier@polymtl.ca if you have any questions.

Each workshop will be evenly divided between short presentations and roundtable discussions.

The follow-up workshops intend to foster dialogue between modelers and technologists with respect to specific industrial decarbonization technologies and themes. This will provide modelers with an opportunity to review their modelling assumptions for the industrial sector, and technologists with an opportunity to better grasp the context affecting the evolving attractiveness of specific industrial decarbonization technologies.

Information about all three events is available in this pdf invitation.

Agenda – all three events

Time: 7h00-11h00 EST, 13h00-17h00 CET
Platform: MS TEAMS kindly provided by ESMIA Consultants Inc.

7h00 EST, 13h00 CET: General introduction

• 5-10 minutes welcome address from an ExCo member at ETSAP and IETS TCP.
• 10-15 minutes survey results and brief overview of industrial sector modelling in TIMES models.

7h30 EST, 13h30 CET: Very short presentations (maximum 10 minutes), alternating with question and discussion periods, including the prepared questions on each workshop topic (process heat, BECCS or non-energy).

8h45 EST, 14h45 CET: 10-15 minute break

9h00 EST, 15h00 CET: Continued presentations and discussions.

10h50 EST, 16h50 CET (at the latest): Concluding remarks

• Workshop summary and identification of key takeaways

Call for abstracts

Participants interested to make a short presentation and/or to participate in a roundtable discussion are invited to submit a short abstract describing what they would like to present.
Single-sentence abstracts are acceptable, for example: “My team has relevant expertise on oxycombustion systems and would like to present some data on how oxycombustion can make some industrial processes more efficient, facilitate carbon capture, and enable lower-cost decarbonization.”

Participants are expected to put some emphasis on fostering modeler-technologist dialogue rather than only presenting research results. (Presentations from modelers are expected to try to answer technologist questions and presentations from technologists are expected to try to answer modeler questions, such as provided in the pdf linked above.)

Abstract submission deadline is Monday 10 November, 2025. Please submit to etienne.bernier@polymtl.ca with kathleen@esmia.ca in copy.