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(How) does sectoral detail affect the robustness of policy insights from energy system models? The refining sector's example: Cahiers de l'Economie, Série Recherche, n° 98
Abstract : In this research, we rekindle an old debate by questioning the impact on mitigating policy evaluation of detailing a subsector in a global energy-transportation model. We chose the re ning sector because it is a relevant case of a sector for which representation widely di ers across models and because it o ers a unique set of complex joint production in the energy sector. To investigate whether the level of detail in the description of the re nery impacts optimal mitigation options, we take the example of a long-term, national, linear programming based, energy-transport system model (TIMES based). We found that the re nery description used in the energy system model matters when trying to evaluate energy or climate policy applied to the transportation sector. It impacts the policy costs but also the technology trajectories chosen at the optimum. Essentially, the balance between energy eciency and carbon intensity of transport may be a ected by the accuracy of the description of the pivotal re ning sector. Consequently, increasing this sector accuracy level should not only be motivated by the wish to gain wider quantitative insights on potential evolution of the energy system but also by the wish to improve the robustness of the model outcomes.
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