Technological change in energy - IMACLIM

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AIM-Hub BLUES C3IAM COFFEE-TEA DNE21+ GCAM GEM-E3 GRACE IFs IMACLIM IMAGE MESSAGE-GLOBIOM POLES PROMETHEUS REMIND-MAgPIE TIAM-UCL WITCH
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Archive of IMACLIM version R1.0
Model information
Model link	http://dina.centre-cired.fr/IMACLIM/Description-des-modeles-IMACLIM/?lang=en https://github.com/GaelleLeTreut/IMACLIM-Country/tree/V1.1 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02949396/document
Institution	Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (CIRED), France, http://www.centre-cired.fr., Societe de Mathematiques Appliquees et de Sciences Humaines (SMASH), France, http://www.smash.fr.
Solution concept	General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method	SimulationImaclim-R is implemented in Scilab, and uses the fonction fsolve from a shared C++ library to solve the static equilibrium system of non-linear equations.
Anticipation	Recursive dynamics: each year the equilibrium is solved (system of non-linear equations), in between two years parameters to the equilibrium evolve according to specified functions.

Technological change is represented in a variety of ways in Imaclim-R:

• There is cost-reducing learning-by-doing factor for technologies that are explicitly represented, i.e. power generation technologies (see [/x/45UMAg section on electricity]) ) and private vehicles (see [/x/55UMAg section on transport]).
• For sectors where explicit portfolios of technologies are not represented, the model nonetheless covers (price induced) endogenous energy efficiency improvements and substitutions with other sectors (see [/x/6ZUMAg section on productive sectors])

• Moreover, the model includes inertias and path-dependencies, via capacity stocks (capital generations), as well as constraints on the maximal speed of technology deployment.

• The current version of the model uses exogenous trends in labor productivity to model exogenous technical change of labor (see [/x/25UMAg section on economic growth]).