The definition of environmental policies that account for society’s conflicting demands on energy, agriculture, land and water resources in the face of global change calls for the use of modelling tools from a wide range of natural science and socio-economic disciplines. In this modelling framework, the natural-societal feedback, the regional disparities and the high levels of uncertainty require a new level of integration between models. ERMITAGE addressed this gap by building on existing modelling tools and platforms to develop new interactive model coupling capabilities between energy, agriculture, groundwater, energy, economy and climate systems. The project was funded by the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union.
Eneris led a work package on modelling and assessing climate vulnerabilities of the global energy system, focusing on bioenergy, heating and cooling, and hydropower, and their effects on the sustainability of long-term energy scenarios. The work relied on the innovative coupling of the global energy system model TIAM-WORLD with the Atmosphere–Ocean General Circulation Model GENIE/PLASIM-ENTS and the agriculture model MagPIE.
