This video explains how the Energy Policy Simulator’s input data is structured and the steps involved in adapting the simulator to a new country or region. It also walks through the process of creating a custom policy implementation schedule and associating that schedule with a policy scenario.
Presentations and Videos
Designing Climate Solutions for Post-Carbon Cities
EI’s Hal Harvey discusses how to design a sustainable city using low-carbon policies detailed in his new book Designing Climate Solutions during a Security and Sustainability Forum webinar.
The Energy Policy Simulator, Part 3: A Look Inside The Simulator
This video explains how to install and use the Energy Policy Simulator (EPS). Topics include how to download and install Vensim and the EPS, navigate within the model, interpret the variables you see, run the model, set policy levers, save and load scenarios, and generate output graphs and tables.
The Energy Policy Simulator, Part 2: A Tour of the Web Interface
This video details how to perform analysis with the Energy Policy Simulator using its user-friendly, yet powerful, web interface. It shows how to build policy packages, customize a policy’s implementation schedule, select from 80 different output graphs, compare multiple scenarios, and more.
The Energy Policy Simulator, Part 1: Project Overview
This video discusses the high-level structure of the Energy Policy Simulator, how it has been applied to six countries in the past, how it is similar to and differs from other energy and economic models, and some of the national laboratories and universities that peer reviewed the tool.
Emerald Cities: Planning For Smart And Green China
Emerald Cities is the first comprehensive manual detailing how to build a sustainable city from the ground up in China, laying out green building and sustainability practices for low-carbon city planning and construction in China and abroad.
Working to Build a Clean Energy Economy
EI’s Hal Harvey discusses his role in launching the Energy Foundation in 1991, and the impact it has had on clean energy since its founding.
PUCO PowerForward: Utility Ratemaking, Methods for Cost Recovery
EI’s Sonia Aggarwal was a featured panelist on the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio’s PowerForward conference, discussing perspectives on utility ratemaking and cost recovery policy.
Real-World Strategies to Win On Climate Change
EI CEO Hal Harvey outlines which countries and which policies are required to deliver a low-carbon future during a speech hosted by the California Institute of Technology’s Resnick Sustainability Institute.
Transportation And Climate Policy In California
EI’s Chris Busch discusses California’s transportation and climate efforts, including transportation policies, regulations, and the Western Climate Initiative cap-and-trade system to a seminar hosted by the Trottier Energy Institute.