Whole Systems Energy Modelling Consortium (WholeSEM)

能源模型为21世纪脱碳、能源安全和成本效益的挑战提供了重要的定量见解。模型提供了一种集成语言，帮助能源政策制定者在普遍存在不确定性的条件下做出更好的决策。全系统能源建模在帮助工业和更广泛的利益相关者评估未来的能源技术和基础设施以及社会和行为变化的潜在作用方面也发挥着核心作用。尽管发挥着根本性的支撑作用，但英国尚未开展国家战略能源建模活动。模型的开发是在零散、被动和临时的基础上进行的，在开发新模型、保留人力和以创新方式连接模型框架以回答新研究问题方面的资金连续性严重不足。全系统能源模型（wholeSEM www.wholesem.ac.uk）联盟的明确设计旨在使英国能够在这一关键领域产生国际领先的研究影响，因此，提供尖端的透明定量分析，以支持公共和私人能源系统的决策。经过严格的筛选过程，wholeSEM联盟囊括了英国在定量全系统能源研究方面领先的跨学科能力。对优先能源系统课题进行国际前沿研究;2.整合跨学科边界的整个能源系统建模方法;3.与学术界、政府和工业界的英国能源系统界建立双边参与机制。整个SEM联盟将优先考虑与跨学科能源系统高度相关的关键建模领域。国际领先的研究将集中在：1。能源需求如何与实践、供应和政策的变化共同演变？2.技术变革的内生性、不确定性和路径依赖性过程将如何影响未来的能源系统？3.如何在多个能源载体和基础设施上优化能源供需系统？4.能源系统和更广泛的环境之间未来主要的物理和经济相互作用和压力是什么？该联盟将采用广泛的综合机制，将跨学科模型联系起来，并应用于关键的能源政策问题。这将通过创新建模方法的概念化和开发、模型构建以及一套集成的用例来实现。整个SEM的一个关键要素是与学术界、政府和工业界的利益相关者进行实质性的双边接触。多层次的整合机制将包括：-一个高知名度的咨询委员会，由主要的政策/行业代表和更广泛的学术专家组成; -一个创新的奖学金计划，使双向的英国学术，政策和工业以及国际专家能够与整个SEM研究团队合作;- 一系列研讨会，包括四个国际知名度高的年度英国能源建模会议，技术讲习班侧重于关键的建模问题，非技术利益相关者讲习班侧重于模型概念化、开发和用例;-为联盟的所有新能源模型提供详细和透明的文件;-根据与专家模型用户组的合作协议，访问模型。这将确保模型得到最佳利用、问责制以及模型开发者、用户和批评者之间的双向信息流动;（建立并与UKERC能源数据中心合作）;- 提供建模技术和软件平台方面的培训，以培训和培养下一代能源系统建模人员，包括与博士生培训中心的互动;

Energy models provide essential quantitative insights into the 21st Century challenges of decarbonisation, energy security and cost-effectiveness. Models provide the integrating language that assists energy policy makers to make improved decisions under conditions of pervasive uncertainty. Whole systems energy modelling also has a central role in helping industrial and wider stakeholders assess future energy technologies and infrastructures, and the potential role of societal and behavioural change.Despite this fundamental underpinning role, the UK has not had a national strategic energy modelling activity. Models have been developed on a fragmented, reactive and ad-hoc basis, with a critical shortfall in the continuity of funding to develop new models, retain human capacity, and link modelling frameworks in innovative ways to answer new research questions.The whole systems energy modelling (wholeSEM www.wholesem.ac.uk) consortium is explicitly designed to enable the UK to make an internationally leading research impact in this critical area, and hence to provide cutting-edge transparent quantitative analysis to underpin public and private energy systems decision making. Following a rigorous selection process, the wholeSEM consortium encapsulates leading and interdisciplinary UK capacity in quantitative whole systems energy research.The key aims of the interdisciplinary wholeSEM consortium are:1. Undertake internationally cutting edge research on prioritised energy system topics;2. Integrate whole energy systems modelling approaches across disciplinary boundaries;3. Build bilateral engagement mechanisms with the wider UK energy systems community in academia, government and industry.The wholeSEM consortium will prioritise on key modelling areas of high relevance to interdisciplinary energy systems. Internationally leading research will focus on:1. How does energy demand co-evolve with changes in practice, supply, and policy?2. How will the endogenous, uncertain, and path dependent process of technological change impact future energy systems?3. How can the energy supply-demand system be optimised over multiple energy vectors and infrastructures?4. What are the major future physical and economic interactions and stresses between the energy system and the broader environment?The consortium, will employ extensive integration mechanisms to link and apply interdisciplinary models to key energy policy problems. This will take place across the conceptualisation and development of innovative modelling approaches, model construction, and through an integrated set of use-cases.A key element of the wholeSEM is substantive bilateral engagement with stakeholders in academia, government and industry. Multi-layered integration mechanisms will include: - A high-profile advisory board, with key policy/industry representation plus wider academic experts; - An innovative fellowship programme to enable bi-directional UK academic, policy and industrial and international experts to work with wholeSEM research teams;- A range of workshops including four internationally high profile annual UK energy modelling conferences, technical workshops focused on key modelling issues, and non-technical stakeholder workshops on model conceptualisation, development and use-cases;- Detailed and transparent documentation for all of the consortium's new energy models;- Model access, based on collaborative agreements with an expert model user group. This will ensure best-use of models, accountability and two-way flows of information from/to model developers, users and critics;- Collation and curation of energy modelling data sources (building off and working with the UKERC Energy Data Centre);- Provision of training in modelling techniques and software platforms, to train and develop the next generation of energy systems modellers, including interactions with centres for doctoral training (CDTs);- Interactive web-based information dissemination