Fossil energy resources - WITNESS

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Fossil energies in WITNESS include

  • natural gas
  • oil
  • coal
  • uranium


For each

  • a resource model gather production, price and stock resource data coming from resource disciplines and aggregates the result, taking as input the resource demand from the energy mix, and as output production, stock and price
  • one or several production technology models that define energy produced from these resource depending on investment (to create and/or maintain production capability) and other needs, and define energy production price as well as emissions generated during production
Alert-warning.png Note: The documentation of WITNESS is 'in preparation' and is not yet 'published'!

Model Documentation - WITNESS

Corresponding documentation
Previous versions
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Model information
Model link
Institution Open-Source for Climate (OS-C), N/A, https://os-climate.org/transition-analysis/., Linux Foundation (LF), N/A, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/.
Solution concept Systems dynamics based approach
Solution method OptimizationSimulation-based optimization
Anticipation