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whatIf? Technologies has had extensive experience with energy systems modelling, including the following the projects. Much of this work had its origins in the energy components of the Socio Economic Resource Framework developed by the principals of WhatIf? Technologies at Statistics Canada in the 1980's.
End Use Data Bases and Simulation Models: Natural Resources Canada
The development of a suite of energy-end use data bases and simulation models for the Demand Policy Analysis division, Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada. The suite includes the residential, commercial, industrial and transportation sectors. The data base components contain all the logic required to transform raw data sets from a wide range of sources into a 'clean' data base ready for dissemination or for use in the simulation models. The simulator components provide tools for exploring options for energy conservation and fuel substitutions.
Energy Demand Model: National Energy Board, Canada
The implementation and hosting of the EDM (Energy Demand Model) and the CANPLAN electricity generation model for the National Energy Board. The EDM model represents energy demand in the residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation sectors in Canada and the provinces and makes use of econometric analysis for the consumer choice component. The CANPLAN model, originally implemented in FORTRAN, represents electricity generation on a plant-by-plant basis. Electricity demand is allocated to plants and new plants are deployed as needed. In this project, significant legacy FORTRAN code was salvaged by shrink wrapping it in the whatIf? environment.
Canadian Transportation Energy and Emissions Model: Natural Resources Canada
The design and implementation of the Canadian Transportation Energy and Emissions Model (CANTEEM) for the Transportation Energy Use Division, Office of Energy Efficiency, Natural Resources Canada. This model has components for population and households, the demand for passenger and freight transportation services, road motor vehicle stocks for personal and commercial use, rail, intercity bus, urban transit, and air transportation and the use of fuels in those sectors. As well, it has a full representation of the fuel production system, including components for the production of and trade in fuels including refined petroleum fuels, hydrogen, electricity, and bio fuels, and feedstocks including oil, gas, coal, uranium, and biomass. The model is implemented at provincial level.
Ethanol Fuels and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: National Research Council, Canada
The development of a systems model to analyse the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of the introduction and use of ethanol fuels in passenger vehicles and light trucks in Canada for the Institute of Chemical Process and Environmental Technology, National Research Council. This model was intended to augment life cycle analysis for technology assessment to provide capability to examine new technologies from the perspective of sustainability. It makes use of the transportation component (TED) of the OEE end use models; new components representing the production of conventional petroleum based fuels, the production of ethanol and ethanol blends fuels, and the production of biomass from dedicated crops or agriculture by-products were developed.