Energy Modeling Forum

The Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) is a structured forum for discussing important issues in energy and the environment. The EMF was established in 1976 at Stanford University. The EMF works through a series of ad hoc working groups, each focussing on a particular corporate or policy decision. The EMF provides a non-partisan platform that ensures objective consideration of opposing views. Participation is by invitation.

Energy Modeling Forum
AbbreviationEMF
Formation1976 (1976)
Founded atStanford University, California, USA
PurposeScientific cooperation
Official language
English
Director
John Weyant
Websiteemf.stanford.edu

Since the late-1990s, the EMF has made contributions to the economics of climate change, as witnessed in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and on integrated assessment modeling more generally.

John Weyant is the current director of the EMF.

Ethos

The EMF was convened in 1976 over concerns that the insights that large-scale energy models could provide policymakers were being overshadowed by the "plethora of detailed quantitative results" being disseminated and discussed.[1]:449 As a result, the EMF sought to bring energy modelers together to provide a proper context for their work. Indeed, the EMF was "formed to foster better communication between the builders and users of energy models in energy planning and policy analysis".[1]:449 The EMF periodically establishes ad hoc working groups to conduct studies on selected energy topics. A working group then identifies relevant existing models and sets a series of tests to illuminate the basic structure and behavior of each model. Results are compared and the strengths and weaknesses of each model is documented in a (as of 1982) freely available report.[1]

List of EMF projects

Reports for most of the completed projects are available from the EMF website.[2] Reports since 2006 have sometimes been published exclusively in special editions of (paywalled) academic journals instead.

EMF projects [2]
ProjectReportedDescription
Completed projects
EMF 011977Energy and the economy
EMF 021978Coal in transition: 1980–2000
EMF 031979Electric load forecasting: probing the issue with models
EMF 041980Aggregate elasticity of energy demand
EMF 051982US oil and gas supply
EMF 061981World oil
EMF 071986Macroeconomic impacts of energy shocks
EMF 081987Industrial energy demand, conservation, and interfuel substitution
EMF 091989North American natural gas markets
EMF 101991Electricity markets and planning
EMF 111992International oil supplies and demands
EMF 121993Controlling global carbon emissions: costs and policy options
EMF 131996Markets for energy efficiency
EMF 14—Integrated assessment of climate change
EMF 151998A competitive electricity industry
EMF 161999The costs of the Kyoto Protocol
EMF 17—Prices and emissions in a restructured electricity market
EMF 18—International trade dimensions of climate policies
EMF 192002Climate change: technology strategies and international trade
EMF 202003Natural gas, fuel diversity, and North American energy markets
EMF 212008Multi-gas mitigation and climate change
EMF 222010Climate change control scenarios
EMF 232009World natural gas markets and trade
EMF 242014US technology and climate policy strategies
EMF 252011Energy efficiency and climate change mitigation
EMF 262013Emissions and market implications of new natural gas supplies
EMF 272014Global technology and climate policy strategies
EMF 282013The effects of technology choices on EU climate policy
EMF 292012The role of border carbon adjustment in unilateral climate policy
Current projects (as of late-2016)
EMF 30Short-lived climate forcers and air quality
EMF 31North American natural gas markets in transition
EMF 32US GHG and revenue recycling scenarios
EMF 33Bio-energy and land use
  • The reported year is that of the last revision.
  • A dash indicates that no report is available.

See also

References
  1. Huntington, Hillard G; Weyant, John P; Sweeney, James L (1 January 1982). "Modeling for insights, not numbers: the experiences of the Energy Modeling Forum" (PDF). Omega: The International Journal of Management Science. 10 (5): 449–462. doi:10.1016/0305-0483(82)90002-0. ISSN 0305-0483. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
  2. "Projects — Energy Modeling Forum". Energy Modeling Forum (EMF). Stanford, CA, USA. Retrieved 2016-10-23.
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