An Overview of Ireland’s Energy System Model and the Thinking for DPR Korea

摘要

The Ireland’s Energy System Model, Irish TIMES model involved building, developing, calibrating, testing and running a partial equilibrium energy systems optimization model for Ireland. Ireland is an island country surrounded by the sea, so it has abundant water and wind resources. DPR Korea is also surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a total coastline of about 17,300 km (3,169 km for Ireland), so there are abundant resources of hydropower, wave power, tidal energy and wind power. On the basis of geographical conditions, DPR Korea’s energy system can learn from Ireland’s energy system model to achieve "good model" of energy policy modelling problems. The two key new perspectives this research project gives are: (i) a full energy-systems modelling approach and (ii) a focus on the GHGs mitigation for DPR Korea by 2030.