By Olivia Ashmoore
Power Innovation Coverage and Know-how LLC® has revealed updates to the Mexico and India Power Coverage Simulator (EPS) fashions and launched a brand new South Korea EPS mannequin. The South Korea EPS was launched on the three.3.1 platform in partnership with the NEXT Group. The Mexico mannequin was upgraded to the newer 3.3.1 EPS platform to allow forecasting modifications in jobs, gross home product (GDP), and public well being impacts. Information for the India EPS mannequin was up to date to account for slower long-term GDP development related to the impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.
South Korea EPS Mannequin Launch
The South Korea-based NEXT Group and Power Innovation® collectively developed South Korea’s first national-level EPS. South Korea is the world’s Twelfth-largest annual greenhouse fuel (GHG) emitter, contributing roughly 715 million metric tons carbon dioxide equal (CO2e) in 2020.
The South Korea EPS mannequin contains a Enterprise-As-Regular (BAU) Situation that exhibits a 14 % improve in economy-wide emissions by 2050 absent any extra coverage motion. Alternatively, an Instance Decarbonization Situation exhibits extra local weather insurance policies can meet the South Korea’s formidable Nationally Decided Contribution (NDC) objectives of decreasing emissions 40 % under 2018 ranges by 2030 and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. The three handiest insurance policies within the Instance Decarbonization Situation are industrial electrification and hydrogen gas switching, changing hydrogen manufacturing to electrolysis, and no new coal or gas-fired powerplants.
South Korea’s Instance Decarbonization Situation emissions reductions by coverage.
Mexico EPS Mannequin Replace
The Mexico EPS has been upgraded to the EPS 3.3.1 mannequin platform, which incorporates new detailed financial outputs and information updates. The up to date mannequin can now observe money flows, capital investments, modifications in GDP, and employment modifications by financial sector. As well as, the three.3.1 model consists of new public well being impacts and up to date vitality consumption information.
The Mexico EPS comes preloaded with a BAU Situation and an Instance Lengthy Time period Technique (LTS) Situation. The Instance LTS Situation would scale back emissions 50 % under 2000 ranges, create roughly 760,000 jobs in 2050, and would improve GDP about 1 % in 2050. Probably the most impactful insurance policies are an electrical automobile gross sales customary, industrial electrification and hydrogen gas switching, and a clear electrical energy customary. The Instance LTS Situation would additionally stop 7,300 untimely deaths and 218,000 bronchial asthma assaults in 2050.
Change in jobs by sector in Mexico’s Instance LTS Situation.
India EPS Information Replace
The India EPS mannequin was up to date to account for slower near-term vitality and financial development ensuing from the COVID-19 pandemic, and likewise consists of an up to date GDP forecast from the India Power Safety Eventualities. The India EPS features a BAU Situation and two coverage eventualities—the Lengthy-term Decarbonization Situation and the Nationally Decided Contribution-Sustainable Growth Objectives Linkages Situation—that present emissions reductions in comparison with the BAU forecast.
India’s BAU, Lengthy-term Decarbonization, and NDC-SDG Linkages Eventualities.
All these options and updates at the moment are accessible on-line. The EPS Video Collection offers an introduction to the mannequin’s capabilities, and customers can discover the device utilizing the EPS net interface.
