Dear scholar:
I'm doing my doctoral thesis that 'Research on the Optimal Path and Countermeasures of China's Energy Transition Under the Constraints of Carbon Neutrality and Carbon Peak'.This research requires energy optimization models.I learned a lot about energy optimization models, but I didn't know how to implement them in software, as TIMES, CGE,LEAP and so on.
I don't know how long you plan to build the model. Traditionally, CGE is hard to be called "energy optimization models"; For TIMES, you could only get an empty model with demo data.
In my experience, it's not easy to build an energy system model if you plan to do it without the previous basis and by yourself. Under the background, it might would take at least 1 year to finish the work if you want to build a model that could be used to do your thesis research. You have to prepare a lot datasets and spend more than half the time to meet the demand by an optimization model.
If it's not your ultimate goal to build an Energy-Economy-Environment model by yourself, I recommend that you pay more attention to whether some ready-made tools can meet your needs. You can learn more about CEEPA model and C3IAM through iNEMS ( http://inems1.bit.edu.cn/Home/Menu).
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