TIM: modelling pathways to meet Ireland's long-term energy system challenges with the TIMES-Ireland Model (v1.0)

Balyk, Olexandr; Glynn, James; Aryanpur, Vahid; Gaur, Ankita; McGuire, Jason; Smith, Andrew; Yue, Xiufeng; Daly, Hannah

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4991-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4991-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-4991-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 12

Model description paper

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29 Jun 2022

Model description paper |

| 29 Jun 2022

TIM: modelling pathways to meet Ireland's long-term energy system challenges with the TIMES-Ireland Model (v1.0)

Olexandr Balyk, James Glynn, Vahid Aryanpur, Ankita Gaur, Jason McGuire, Andrew Smith, Xiufeng Yue, and Hannah Daly

Data sets

TIMES-Ireland Model (v1.0) Olexandr Balyk, James Glynn, Vahid Aryanpur, Ankita Gaur, Jason McGuire, Andrew Smith, Xiufeng Yue, Alessandro Chiodi, Maurizio Gargiulo, and Hannah Daly https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5708681

Model code and software

etsap-TIMES/TIMES_model: TIMES Version 4.5.8 (v4.5.8) Antti-L, IEA-ETSAP, and ggiannakidis https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5537496

Short summary

Ireland has significantly increased its climate mitigation ambition, with a recent commitment to reduce greenhouse gases by an average of 7 % yr^-1 in the period to 2030 and a net-zero target for 2050. This article describes the TIMES-Ireland model (TIM) developed to inform Ireland's energy system decarbonisation challenge. The paper also outlines a priority list of future model developments to better meet the challenge, taking into account equity, cost-effectiveness, and technical feasibility.