International Energy Workshop (IEW) 2024

The IEW is a leading conference for the international energy modelling community. In a world of environmental and economic constraints, energy modelling is an increasingly important tool for addressing the complexity of energy planning and policy making. The IEW provides a venue for scholars and researchers to compare modelling tools, to discuss modelling advances for emerging energy sector issues, and to observe new trends in the global energy sector.

The IEW features plenary sessions (mornings) and parallel sessions (afternoons). This year’s plenary sessions featured three key themes and nine keynote speakers. During the parallel sessions over 100 papers were presented. The call for papers was closed on February 1st, 2024. The selected papers covered a range of topics including, but not limited to: Reaching net-zero emissions and climate neutrality; Role of renewable energy in the energy transition; Energy access and transition in developing countries; Socio-economic analysis of the energy transition; and Climate resilience of energy systems.

Two workshops, IEA-ETSAP workshop (24-25 June) and ECMWF workshop (25 June) took place at the IRENA Innovation and Technology Center in Bonn, back to back with the IEW. Please see the detail in the below Register for other events during IEW week (24-25 June) section.

Programme Committee

The IEW Programme Committee includes, among others, the IEW co-directors and 2024 co-organisers:

• Geoffrey Blanford, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Massimo Tavoni, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
• Bob van der Zwaan, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)
• Roland Roesch, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
• Asami Miketa, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
• Ute Collier, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
• Chiara Cagnazzo, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

For further information not included on this webpage please contact info@internationalenergyworkshop.org and/or iew@irena.org.

Sponsors

Keynote Speakers

• Dr. Keigo Akimoto, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
• Dr. Carlo Buontempo, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
• Dr. Delavane Diaz, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Prof. Bjarne Steffen, ETH Zürich
• Dr. Sonia Yeh, Chalmers University of Technology
• Dr. David McCollum, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Dr. Stelios Pesmajoglou, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
• Mr. Michael Taylor, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
• Dr. Gunnar Lederer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Programme

A summary overview of the programme is included below.

Programme Overview

Registration is now closed for the 42nd International Energy Workshop, held in Bonn, Germany on June 26-28, 2024.

The IEA-ETSAP workshop took place back-to-back with IEW 2024, on 24th – 25th June 2024 in Bonn, Germany, at the IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre:

The program and presentations from previous workshops are available at the ETSAP webpage: Workshops (iea-etsap.org).

ETSAP is a Technology Collaboration Program of the International Energy Agency (IEA). ETSAP functions as a consortium of member country teams and invited teams that actively cooperate to establish, maintain, and expand energy-economy-environment-engineering modelling capability. Its backbone consists of a common methodology, mainly based on the MARKAL/TIMES family of models, permitting the compilation of long-term energy scenarios and in-depth national, multi-country, and global energy and environmental scenario analyses.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) held a workshop back-to-back with IEW 2024, the afternoon of 25th June 2024 in Bonn, Germany, at the IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre:

Environmental data supporting energy policies

Ensuring secure, sustainable, and affordable energy for citizens and businesses, as prioritised in international policies, relies heavily on access to accurate weather, atmospheric, climate and emissions data. These data are crucial for steering strategies and interventions towards achieving net-zero emissions and climate neutrality goals for a sustainable future, but they also play an important role in transitioning to renewable energy and integrating it into the grid.

For decades, ECMWF has played a pivotal role in advancing Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and its applications across various sectors, including energy. By providing accurate and reliable forecasts, ECMWF has enabled the energy sector to make informed decisions on energy production, distribution, and integration of renewable energy sources.

In recent years, ECMWF, including the Copernicus Services (C3S and CAMS), has offered an increasing/growing volume of environmental data spanning past, present, and short to medium-term forecasts, along with future climate projections. C3S reanalysis data are currently used operationally by IRENA, the renewable energy industry, the Electricity Transmission System Operators (TSOs) in cooperation with ENTSO-E and will bring further opportunities emerging from the financial and other key players in the energy sector, both nationally and internationally.

In parallel, key products for the solar energy sector, including forecasts of solar radiation can be used by the renewable energy industry. The progress done toward the net-zero emission via the monitoring and forecasting of atmospheric concentrations and surface deposition fluxes of air pollutants, greenhouse gases and CO2.

All Copernicus data and some of ECMWF data are free and open access.

The agenda of this workshop can be found here: https://energy.hub.copernicus.eu/environmental-data-supporting-energy-policies.

Venue location

This event was held at the Design Offices building in Bonn Neuer Kanzlerplatz.

Address: Neuer Bundeskanzlerplatz, 2D 53113 Bonn