Whole Systems Energy Modelling Consortium (WholeSEM)

能源模型为21世纪的脱碳、能源安全和成本效益挑战提供了必要的定量见解。模型提供了一种整合语言，帮助能源政策制定者在普遍存在不确定性的情况下做出更好的决策。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，以及社会和行为改变的潜在作用方面，全系统能源建模也发挥着核心作用。尽管有这种基础性的支撑作用，英国还没有全国性的战略能源建模活动。模型是在零散的、反应性的和临时的基础上开发的，在开发新模型、保留人的能力和以创新的方式将建模框架联系起来以回答新的研究问题方面，资金的连续性严重不足。整个系统能源建模（wholeSEM www.wholesem.ac.uk）联盟明确旨在使英国在这一关键领域取得国际领先的研究影响，从而提供尖端的透明定量分析，以支持公共和私人能源系统决策。经过严格的选择过程，批发商联盟封装了英国在定量整体系统能源研究方面的领先和跨学科能力。跨学科的批发商联盟的主要目标是：1。1 .开展能源系统重点课题的国际前沿研究；2 .整合跨学科边界的整个能源系统建模方法；与学术界、政府和工业界的更广泛的英国能源系统社区建立双边参与机制。wholeSEM财团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。能源需求如何随着实践、供应和政策的变化而共同演变？技术变革的内生、不确定和路径依赖过程将如何影响未来的能源系统？如何在多种能源载体和基础设施上优化能源供需系统？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整合机制，将跨学科模型联系起来并应用于关键的能源政策问题。这将发生在创新建模方法的概念化和开发，模型构建，并通过一组集成的用例。wholeSEM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。多层整合机制将包括：-一个高知名度的顾问委员会，由关键政策/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，使双向英国学术，政策，工业和国际专家与批发研究团队合作；-一系列研讨会，包括四次国际知名的英国能源建模年度会议，重点关注关键建模问题的技术研讨会，以及关于模型概念化、开发和用例的非技术利益相关者研讨会；-财团所有新能源模型的详细和透明的文件；-模型访问，基于与专家模型用户组的协作协议。这将确保模型的最佳使用、问责制以及模型开发者、用户和评论家之间的双向信息流动；-整理和管理能源模型数据源（建立并与英国能源研究中心能源数据中心合作）；-提供建模技术和软件平台方面的培训，以培训和发展下一代能源系统建模人员，包括与博士培训中心的互动；-网上互动信息发布

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