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 feature three key themes and nine keynote speakers. During the parallel sessions over 100 papers will be presented. The call for papers was closed on February 1st, 2024. The selected papers will cover 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) will take 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, UNFCCC
• Mr. Michael Taylor, IRENA
• More to be announced

Programme

A summary overview of the programme is included below, and a detailed version of the programme will be added to this webpage before the conference.

Programme Overview

Registration is now open for the 42nd International Energy Workshop, to be held in Bonn, Germany on June 26-28, 2024. All participants in the Conference must complete the online registration form and pay the registration fee through the link to registration below*. Registrations will not be confirmed until after payment has been received, and confirmation will be sent to participants via email. All pricing is in Euros, and includes VAT of 19%.

Registration costs:

* To secure your place at the conference, please register at least two weeks in advance. Registrations received after this date may not be guaranteed a place due to limited availability. Please note that registration will close once the maximum capacity for the conference has been reached. IRENA is unable to provide sponsorship or travel support to participants.

** The student rate applies to attendees currently enrolled at an institution of higher education. Verification of student status will be required in the registration process.

*** Companion/Guest includes entry to reception and dinner. It excludes any entry to technical session admission.

Register

Each registration includes:

• Admission to technical sessions
• Welcome reception on 26 June
• Social event on 27 June
• Lunches Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
• Refreshments at breaks

Please note that for accepted papers with more than one author, at least one author must register and attend the Conference. Registration does not include coverage of travel or accommodation expenses. Participants are responsible for making their own travel and accommodation arrangements. For more details on travel and accommodation, please see the “Logistics” section on this page.

Cancellation and attendee substitution policy:

Any modification, including cancellation, of your registration requires written notice via email to iew@irena.org (with Subject: Modification or Cancellation). The following information applies:

• Attendee substitutions may be made without cost penalty at any time up to the date of the start of the event.
• Cancellations will be accepted if notice of cancellation is received by the IRENA team in accordance with the following schedule:
• Cancellation on or before May 20, 2024: A 80% refund will be issued, minus the service fee of the transaction.;
• Cancellation on or before May 30, 2024: A refund of 50% will be issued, minus the service fee of the transaction
• Cancellation after May 30, 2024: No refund will be made.

The service fee of the transaction will not be reimbursed in the case of cancellations.

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

Participation in the ETSAP workshop is open to all interested in energy systems modelling and free to attend. There is also an option for presentations – if you want to present your work, please include the presentation title and abstract when you register, and we will consider including your contribution in our programme. Please note the deadline for the submission of abstracts for presentations in the workshop is the 31st of May 2023. 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.

To register for the ETSAP workshop: https://iea-etsap.org/index.php/etsap-meeting.

The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) will be holding 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.

Please refer to the PDF agenda for further details regarding the workshop sessions.

Venue location

This event will be held at the Design Offices building in Bonn Neuer Kanzlerplatz. Specific locations for each session will be identified in the material sent to each registrant prior to the event. Address: Neuer Bundeskanzlerplatz, 2D 53113 Bonn

How to reach the venue

From Bonn with the tram, take tram #16 or #66, take tram which towards Bad Godesberg; alight at station Hausallee/Museummeile’s tram station; exit at House of the history of the Federal Republic of Germany; Design office is located at the Neuer Kanzlerplatz; it’s approximately 550 meter/5 minutes' walk from the House of History Museum. Below is the walking map:

From Bonn, with bus, please take bus #610 or #611; toward Pappelweg and alight at Bonn Strassburger Weg bus stop; it’s a 500m walk; walk along Corburger strasse and turn toward Reuterstrasse, you will be Neuer Kanzlerplatz on your left. Below is the walking map:

From Cologne airport to Bonn Center

The Airport Express SB 60 operates every 30 minutes on weekdays between Bonn and the airport and every 30 or 60 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays. The 25 km (about 15.53 mi) bus journey to the airport takes 27 minutes (the return trip to Bonn takes 32 minutes). One-way tickets cost EUR 7.70.

From Frankfurt airport to Bonn Center

From Frankfurt airport, take the long-distance train (Fernbahnhof Frankfurt flughafen) with ICE train to Siegburg. Train duration will take 45 mins.

From Siegburg, you take the tram no. 66 to Bonn city center, the tram ride will take around 25 mins.

Hotel accommodation portal

Every participant who books a hotel room via this page will automatically also receive a free ticket for local public transport. This ticket is valid for the full duration of your stay (day of arrival up to and including day of departure) and is valid on the entire VRS network. You can find more information about the validity of the ticket here.

Please be advised to print your hotel confirmation at home or your office prior arriving in Bonn.

Please also do not forget to print out your public transportation ticket that you will receive upon completion of the hotel reservation.

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