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Over the last ten years, energy systems modelling has played a key underpinning role into UK policy making process. The Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) internationally peer-reviewed Energy Systems Modelling Environment (ESME) is an impressive addition to the UK’s modelling capacity that has already contributed to several CCC and DECC policy publications. UCL-Energy’s collaboration with the ETI centres around an iterative and rigorous testing process  leading into a research project on demand modelling.

Such model testing and development is one of UCL-Energy’s core interests and expertise. UCL-Energy is at the forefront in modelling energy systems, and we are able to fully assess the impact that changes to energy demand can have on a wide range of parameters (health, comfort, cost, energy, carbon, upstream infrastructure) at a range of different spatial and temporal scales from individual components through to an international scale. Major modelling tools at Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ include energy-economic systems models including the UK MARKAL family (including elastic demand, stochastic, macro and other variants) and the TIAM-UCL global model.

Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ academic research project, which is due to be completed in September 2014, will include testing the functionality and robustness of the ESME model. The findings are a key input into the ongoing ETI-ESME User Group. Insights are expected to feed into on-going strategic discussions within ETI’s Strategy Advisory Group (SAG) and the wider ETI member community. Some of Õ¬ÄÐÊÓƵ research focused insights will be disseminated to the wider UK and international energy systems modelling community through the publication of articles in academic journals.