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POLES is a simulation model providing long-term energy supply and demand scenarios. It is based on a hierarchical system of interconnected sub-models on the international, regional and national level. Simulation is carried out for the international energy markets, national energy balances and technical subsystems for final energy consumption, energy transformation and production. Technological development and diffusion of new technologies as well as greenhouse gas emissions of the energy sector are taken account of. Detailed national models for final energy demand, electricity conversion and oil and gas production have already been developed. Techno-economic data for energy demand, cost-performance data for power plants (conventional and new technologies), reserves and resources of fossil fuels are required as model inputs (sources: IEA-OECD, CHELEM-CEPII, national data).
Criqui, P., A Detailed Simulation Approach to World Energy Modelling: the SIBILIN and POLES experience, in International Energy Modelling, Sterner (T.) ed., London, Chapman & Hall, 1992.POLES, Avancement au 20/07/92, Grenoble: IEPE, mimeo.
POLES, July 1993 Advancement Report, Grenoble: IEPE, mimeo.