Electricity - EPPA

Note: The documentation of EPPA is 'in preparation' and is not yet 'published'!

Model Documentation - EPPA
Model scope and methods - EPPA Model concept, solver and details - EPPA Temporal dimension - EPPA Spatial dimension - EPPA Policy - EPPA Socio-economic drivers - EPPA Population - EPPA Economic activity - EPPA Macro-economy - EPPA Production system and representation of economic sectors - EPPA Capital and labour markets - EPPA Monetary instruments - EPPA Trade - EPPA Technological change - EPPA Energy - EPPA Energy resource endowments - EPPA Fossil energy resources - EPPA Uranium and other fissile resources - EPPA Bioenergy - EPPA Non-biomass renewables - EPPA Energy conversion - EPPA Electricity - EPPA Heat - EPPA Gaseous fuels - EPPA Liquid fuels - EPPA Solid fuels - EPPA Grid, pipelines and other infrastructure - EPPA Energy end-use - EPPA Transport - EPPA Residential and commercial sectors - EPPA Industrial sector - EPPA Other end-use - EPPA Energy demand - EPPA Technological change in energy - EPPA Land-use - EPPA Agriculture - EPPA Forestry - EPPA Land-use change - EPPA Bioenergy land-use - EPPA Other land-use - EPPA Agricultural demand - EPPA Technological change in land-use - EPPA Emissions - EPPA GHGs - EPPA Pollutants and non-GHG forcing agents - EPPA Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) options - EPPA Climate - EPPA Modelling of climate indicators - EPPA Climate damages, temperature changes - EPPA Non-climate sustainability dimension - EPPA Air pollution and health - EPPA Water - EPPA Other materials - EPPA Other sustainability dimensions - EPPA Appendices - EPPA Mathematical model description - EPPA Data - EPPA References - EPPA
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Model information
Model link	https://globalchange.mit.edu/research/research-tools/eppa
Institution	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, https://globalchange.mit.edu/.
Solution concept	General equilibrium (closed economy)
Solution method	Optimization
Anticipation

Electricity in EPPA comes from: 1) coal; 2) gas; 3) oil; 4) nuclear; 5) hydro; 6) wind; 7) solar; and 8) biomass. The energy conversion process of each type of generation is represented by a production technology that transforms different inputs into the electricity output. Some low-carbon or negative emissions generation options (e.g., gas with CCS; biomass with CCS) are not economically feasible without stringent policies, and therefore they are calibrated based on engineering data (e.g., various years of data from EIA's Annual Energy Outlook) as they have not been commercially operated currently and are not observed in the base year input-output data. Besides the economic data, physical flows of energy are also tracked to ensure that the thermal efficiency (if applicable) of each type of conversion is valid with price-driven (endogenous) or non-price-driven (exogenous) energy efficiency improvements.