Integrated hydrological-OSeMOSYS energy model

A recently conducted study on the water-energy nexus in the Omo river basin (Ethiopia) was presented at KTH on June 16th. The work was developed by KTH-dESA researcher  under the scope of her MSc thesis in collaboration with ETH, Zurich. An OSeMOSYS model was set up for the energy system of Ethiopia, with national data extracted from KTH-dESA's The Electricity Model Base for Africa (TEMBA). Subsequently a methodology was developed to couple the energy systems model with Topkapi-ETH, a physically based rain-fall runoff model, that models the hydrological aspects of a river and considers, among other things, water abstraction for irrigation and diversions to reservoirs for hydropower.

The full study can be found here.