Energy Supply and Demand
The IMAGE Energy Regional Model (TIMER) is a global energy model. Its main objective is to analyse the long-term trends in energy demand and efficiency and the possible transition towards renewable energy sources.
TIMER: Introduction to The IMAGE Energy Regional ModelThe IMAGE Energy Regional Model (TIMER) is a global energy model that has been developed to explore different scenarios for the energy system in the broader context of the IMAGE environmental assessment framework. TIMER is an energy-system simulation model describing the supply/ demand of 12 different energy carriers for a set of world regions (currently 26). Its main objective is to analyse the long-term trends in energy demand and efficiency and the possible transition to renewable energy sources. Within the context of IMAGE, the model describes energy-related greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions, along with land-use demand for energy crops. The TIMER model focuses particularly on several dynamic relationships within the energy system, such as inertia, learning-by-doing, depletion and trade among the different regions. The TIMER model is a simulation model, which means that the results depend on a single set of deterministic algorithms rather then being the result of an optimisation procedure. As such, it can be compared to other energy system simulation models such as POLES (Criqui and Kouvaritakis, 2000). |
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