New PhD thesis

On June 9th Constantinos Taliotis, from KTH-dESA, defended his PhD thesis by the title ' Large scale renewable energy deployment - Insights offered by long-term energy models from selected case studies '. In his work, Taliotis considers two cases of electricity system transformation: one of developing countries experiencing fast growth of the economy, resource use and a need for generation; another of a EU country where an existing fossil-fuels-based electricity system is transformed to accomodate high shares of intermittent RES. In so doing he developed two models in OSeMOSYS. The first model, TEMBA, is at a continental scale and it represents the World's first open energy system model of every African country. Insights from this model include the expected need for electricity investments and trade links in scenarios of economic growth, as well as their impact in favouring the penetration of RES. The second model represents a detailed electricity system model of the island of Cyprus, with space resolution down to the individual power plants. The model includes functionalities to compute also the needs for capacity reserve and short-term operational constraints of fossil-fuelled power plants. Developed in collaboration with the TSO and the Government of Cyprus, it is the first open source energy model adopted by an EU member state to update the National Energy Plan.