Modelling developments linked to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
date: 25/06/2019
- The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) has produced the Scaling Rooftop Solar report, a new model study focused on assessing the role of roof-top solar power in India's decarbonisation process.
The research, which targets India's urban residential households, models the competition of rooftop solar in India with centralised electricity supply, analysing the role of various government policies in incentivising rooftop solar energy in the country.
Distributed solar energy is a critical part of India's larger solar ambition. However, while the national and state governments have been pushing for rooftop solar in Indian residential sector, the progress has been far from satisfactory. The analysis seeks to understand the reasons for the slow uptake of solar rooftop in India and aims to model its evolution in Indian households. It also aims to identify policy insights for a faster penetration of this energy source in the electricity generation mix, as envisaged by the Indian government. (India)
- Researchers from the European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE) have improved the World Induced Technical Change Hybrid (WITCH) model. These developments consist of improving the air quality and expanding the model to include Direct Air Capture (DAC) technologies using data from the US National Academy of Science report on DAC. These improvements have enabled to better model synergies and trade-offs between air pollution and climate policies, and explore the potential issues associated with this particular negative emissions technology. (Italy)
- Researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute / Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) are integrating existing models with the purpose of enhancing the spatial and temporal representation of key underlying processes and determine their climate implications.
The final objective of the project focuses on enabling integrated assessments at national, state/province and sub-annual levels, as most decisions and sector-related investments face the need for information at these levels. (United States)