Assessment of technologies in a global energy system
A limited research and development budget usually implies that decisions must be made regarding the distribution of the available funds among the most promising R & D projects. The MARKAL model is used to describe a national energy system where existing and new energy conversion and process tech...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA)
2003-12-01
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| Series: | ORiON |
| Online Access: | http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/510 |
| Summary: | A limited research and development budget usually implies that decisions must be made regarding the distribution of the available funds among the most promising R & D projects. The MARKAL model is used to describe a national energy system where existing and new energy conversion and process technologies compete for a market share in satisfying exogenously specified demand patterns. A measure is introduced which may be used to rank the relative importance of a technology in the energy system. Several scenarios depicting different restrictions on the energy system are used in the analysis. |
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| ISSN: | 2224-0004 |