Publications
Low energy demand scenario for feasible deep decarbonisation-whole energy systems modelling for Ireland
The Irish Low Energy Demand (ILED) mitigation narrative is developed and applied to the TIMES-Ireland Model (TIM), an energy systems optimisation model. ILED represents a scenario where ESDs are decoupled from economic growth by shifting travel, increasing end-use efficiency, densifying urban settlement, focusing on low-energy intensive economic activities and changing social infrastructure.
- Authors
Ankita Gaur, Olexandr Balyk, James Glynn, John Curtis, Hannah Daly
- Year
- 2022
- Journal Name
- Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition
- Category
- Journal Article
- Keywords
- Low Energy Demand Scenario, Energy Systems Modelling Ireland, Decarbonisation, Mitigation, Pathways, Emissions
- Project
Platform RA6b PhD
- Full Citation
Gaur, A., Balyk, O., Glynn, J., Curtis, J. and Daly, H. (2022). Low energy demand scenario for feasible deep decarbonisation: Whole energy systems modelling for Ireland. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, p.100024. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rset.2022.100024.
- Link to Publication
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667095X22000083
Abstract
Typically, energy system decarbonisation scenarios neglect the mitigation opportunities from reducing and restructuring energy service demands (ESDs), focusing instead on technology and fuel substitutions. Models tend to be designed to factor technologies explicitly while ESDs are exogenous. Ireland, the subject of this paper, has legislated one of the most ambitious decarbonisation targets in the world: the need to understand the role of demand shift is paramount.