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The project consists of developing the BIDERATU Integrated Modelling System, an integrated modelling and planning tool which will give decision makers criteria and quantitative information with which to generate and select decarbonisation scenarios by means of assessing disaggregated impacts.
The main attributes of the tool will be:
By this means, BIDERATU will constitute a core modelling system, focussing on the energy and economy components of technologies and systems and incorporating methodological aspects that will offer substantial improvements in regard to depth of analysis, such as disaggregated characterisation of the industrial sector, sustainability evaluation tools, the design of circular economy strategies, and AI techniques.
The project, funded by the Basque Government Department of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment (ELKARTEK 2021 Programme), has been allocated a budget of approximately €500k, and is slated for completion by December 2022.
BIDERATU is structured into eight major task blocks or Work Packages (WP), as follows:
Work Package 1 is tasked with designing the concept of the BIDERATU Integrated Modelling System and integrating its main models.
Main tasks:
Work Package 2 will model the energy systems in detail, providing a disaggregated definition of their component sectors: industry, services, transport, residential, transformation and distribution, energy import and export, etc. In addition to the baseline situation, the modelling will reflect changes over times in energy demand and consumption, as well as the evolution of energy technologies and vectors that will be key to attaining decarbonisation goals.
This Work Package will conduct an integrated analysis of the Basque industrial sector with the aim of identifying key processes and technologies for significantly reducing industrial CO2 emissions.
The developments and assessments made by this Work Package will result in a specific module for the disaggregation of the industrial sector, to be integrated into the multisectoral modelling developed by WP2, as a means of giving greater detail to its characterisation of the industry.
This Work Package is developing a multisectoral macroeconomic model for the Basque Country, with a dynamic, input-output, econometric focus, with which to analyse the socioeconomic implications of decarbonisation policies and scenarios.
Specifically, it is updating and developing the DERIO model, developed by BC3 and used to evaluate the Basque Country 2050 Climate Change Strategy, by means of extending the homes module, developing a public sector module, improving the energy use and production model and modelling international trade.
This Work Package is developing methods to define energy transition scenarios in a structured, coherent manner, based on mass automated generation using AI-ML and criteria weighting to prioritise said scenarios.
The primary aim of this Work Package is to conduct a concept test on the integrated modelling environment in order to evaluate and validate the results of the tool by simulating a range of sustainable, competitive decarbonisation scenarios for the industrial sector in the context of the Basque Country energy transition towards a circular, carbon-neutral economy by 2050.
The main aim of Work Package 7 is to define and roll out the strategy for communicating the developments and outcomes of the project, maximising its visibility with regard to identified stakeholders and driving the transfer of the knowledge and technologies developed.
This Work Package is tasked with the technical and financial management of the BIDERATU project.
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