Danish participation in IEA-ETSAP, Annex X, 2005-2007

An important part of the cooperation within the IEA (International Energy Agency) is organised through national contributions to Implementation Agreements on energy technology and energy analyses. One of them is ETSAP (Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme), started in 1976. Denmark has signed the agreement and contributed to some early annexes. This project is motivated by an invitation to participate in ETSAP Annex X, Global Energy Systems and Common Analyses: Climate friendly, Secure and Productive Energy Systems for the period 2005 to 2007. The main activity is semi-annual workshops focusing on presentations of model analyses and use of the ETSAP' tools (the MARKAL/TIMES family of models). The project was also planned to benefit from the ED project NEEDS -New Energy Externalities Developments for Sustainability. ETSAP is contributing to a part of NEEDS that develops the TIMES model for 29 European countries with assessment of future technologies. An additional project Monitoring and Evaluation of the RES directives: implementation in EU and policy recommendations for 2020 (RES2020) under Intelligent Energy Europe was added, as well as the Danish Centre for Energy, Environment and Health (CEEH), starting from January 2007.