TIMES-Ireland Model
Information on the Irish energy system as it is today and the best available projections for what the future technology and fuel options and demands will be.
https://github.com/marei-epmg/times-ireland-model
Category: Energy Systems
Sub Category: Global and Regional Energy System Models
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TIMES-Ireland Model (TIM)
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/marei-epmg/times-ireland-model
- Owner: MaREI-EPMG
- License: other
- Created: 2021-11-17T19:24:31.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-10T13:31:12.000Z (17 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-25T12:45:55.651Z (2 days ago)
- Topics: energy-planning, energy-system-model, gams, ireland, scenario-analysis, times-model
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- Size: 363 MB
- Stars: 15
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 13
- Open Issues: 16
- Releases: 6
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Zenodo: .zenodo.json
README.md
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
TIMES-Ireland Model (TIM)
Purpose of the model
The TIMES-Ireland Model (TIM) is being developed at UCC to inform future possible decarbonisation pathways for the Irish energy system. We give it information on the Irish energy system as it is today, a set of constraints, including on greenhouse-gas emissions, and the best available projections for what the future technology and fuel options and demands will be.
It then finds the lowest-cost pathway to re-architect and restructure Ireland’s entire energy system, for electricity, transport, industry, residential and commercial, and novel fuels like hydrogen and bioenergy, to reduce emissions to meet the target. It accounts for all the linkages in the system; rather than transform it one piece at a time, it transforms the entire system, accounting for all the sector couplings and trade-offs, even between distant parts of the system.
Rather than offering a single prescriptive plan, the model helps structure our discussions of the trade-offs and uncertainties; and helps us develop meaningful, consistent narratives of energy transformation, while considering a huge range of possible futures.
Alternatively, TIM can be used to assess the implications of certain policies, namely regulatory or technology target-setting (for example, biofuels blending obligation or sales/stock share target for electric vehicles).
Documentation
More information on the TIMES model generator and specific information about TIM can be found in the Documentation.
About the developers
The list of developers, contributors and reviewers is described in the Acknowledgements section.
TIM is the successor model to the Irish TIMES Model, which has been developed by the MaREI Energy Policy and Modelling Group (EPMG) at University College Cork since 2010 and funded through various projects by the EPA, SEAI, SFI and the NTR Foundation, and has played a significant role in informing the evidence base of Irish climate target setting.
Climate policy use
This model has been built to better inform increased national climate mitigation ambition: Ireland now has one of the most ambitious near-term decarbonisation targets in the world, with a new carbon budget process to underpin action. The new model also take into account the changing energy technology landscape, and of new advances in energy systems optimisation modelling techniques.
The first set of scenarios developed with TIM have explored the implications of alternative climate mitigation, technology and demand pathways. This analysis formed a significant part of the evidence base used by the Irish Climate Change Advisory Council to develop the first set of carbon budget recommendations.
- Zenodo repository of scenarios
- Web app visualising results from a selection of scenarios
- Presentation of TIM findings to Engineers Ireland, Nov 3rd 2021.
Scenario descriptions
- No mitigation - No GHG constraint
- WAM - overall energy system GHG emissions contrained to the Environmental Protection Agency's "With Additional Measures" scenario
- CB - energy system GHG emissions are constrained to meet sectoral emissions ceilings.
Peer-reviewed publications
- TIM: modelling pathways to meet Ireland's long-term energy system challenges with the TIMES-Ireland Model (v1.0). 2022. Geoscientific Model Development.
- Low energy demand scenario for feasible deep decarbonisation: Whole energy systems modelling for Ireland. 2022. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition.
- Decarbonisation of passenger light-duty vehicles using spatially resolved TIMES-Ireland Model. 2022. Applied Energy.
Owner metadata
- Name: MaREI-EPMG
- Login: MaREI-EPMG
- Email:
- Kind: organization
- Description:
- Website: https://www.marei.ie/energy-policy-modelling/
- Location: Ireland
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- Company:
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- Repositories: 42
- Last ynced at: 2023-08-08T03:42:09.767Z
- Profile URL: https://github.com/MaREI-EPMG
GitHub Events
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- Create event: 4
- Release event: 1
- Issues event: 14
- Watch event: 3
- Delete event: 6
- Issue comment event: 1
- Push event: 12
- Pull request event: 4
Last Year
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- Release event: 1
- Issues event: 14
- Watch event: 3
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- Issue comment event: 1
- Push event: 12
- Pull request event: 4
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Last synced: 6 days ago
Total Commits: 245
Total Committers: 5
Avg Commits per committer: 49.0
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.571
Commits in past year: 28
Committers in past year: 1
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 28.0
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Issue and Pull Request metadata
Last synced: 1 day ago
Total issues: 50
Total pull requests: 32
Average time to close issues: 9 months
Average time to close pull requests: 11 days
Total issue authors: 6
Total pull request authors: 3
Average comments per issue: 0.56
Average comments per pull request: 0.31
Merged pull request: 30
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0
Past year issues: 6
Past year pull requests: 4
Past year average time to close issues: 12 days
Past year average time to close pull requests: about 1 month
Past year issue authors: 2
Past year pull request authors: 1
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Past year merged pull request: 3
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 0
Top Issue Authors
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- vahid-aryanpur (11)
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Top Pull Request Authors
- olejandro (26)
- BakytzhanSuleimenov (5)
- vahid-aryanpur (1)
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