May 2013
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Regional Training on Using LEAP for GHG Mitigation Assessment:
July 15-19 2013, New Delhi, India
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Low Emissions Asian Development (LEAD) program will host a one-week regional training in New Delhi, India during July 2013 on using LEAP to analyze low emission development strategies (LEDS). The training will also show how to construct marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves. The workshop is open to up to 40 LEDS practitioners from the following ten LEAD partner countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Participants will be selected based on their qualifications and how actively they are engaged in LEDS. The LEAD program will arrange for the travel and accommodation of the selected participants.
Detailed information and instructions on how to apply are available here.
LEAP Workshop
June 10-21 2013, Bariloche, Argentina
The 12th Annual Workshop on Energy Policy for Sustainable Development and Use of the LEAP Modeling System. The Institute for Energy Economics of the Fundación Bariloche (IDEE/FB) in Argentina has announced the dates for the 12th annual workshop on Energy Policy for Sustainable Development and Use of the LEAP Modeling System. The workshop is designed for energy and environmental professionals and is open to participants from any country, but please be advised that sessions will be conducted in Spanish, so a high degree of fluency in Spanish is required. The workshop will be split into two segments: week one will focus on the concepts of energy planning and energy scenario analysis and week two will be devoted to an intensive LEAP training session. A limited number of scholarships are available to help defray the costs of attending.
More information and application forms are available here. For more information in Spanish, please see the Fundacion Bariloche Website.
Now Available: New Version of LEAP (2012.0047)
A new version of LEAP, the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system is now available. The latest version features improvements to LEAP's optimization calculations including support for modeling a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and support for more realistically modeling the different sizes (capacities) of different types of power plants by using Mixed Integer Linear Programming. The update also allows LEAP to be used simultaneously by multiple user accounts on a single PC.
A detailed description of the new features is available here.
You can download LEAP here.
Energy for a Shared Development Agenda:
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How can the world meet its energy needs for human development in a way that is compatible with sustainability?
What is required is nothing less than a wholesale transformation of the planet's energy systems, all of which must be achieved in
just a few short decades and while staying within extremely stringent climate change and resource-use constraints.
Though the challenge is great, the energy and sustainability scenarios in this report show that this challenge can be met. The report describes a series of global energy and sustainability scenarios played out to 2050 for the planet divided into 22 regions. The report also explores how to successfully implement change, via case studies of energy transformation and reviews of policy mechanisms and governance frameworks. The scenarios in the report were developed in LEAP as a transparent and open source global energy model. This model will shortly be made freely available here for download and use within LEAP.
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