The GTAP-Power Data Base: Disaggregating the Electricity Sector in the GTAP Data Base

Abstract

Computable general equilibrium (CGE)

Exploring the Macroeconomic Impacts of Low-Carbon Energy Transitions: A Simulation Analysis for Kenya and Ghana

“…7 See Willenbockel, Osiolo and Bawakyillenuo (2017) for further elaboration. See Peters andHertel (2016a, 2016b) for a detailed discussion and comparison of existing matrix-balancing algorithms commonly used in this context and further references to the related technical literature. 8 See Willenbockel (2015) for critical reflections on the recent literature concerned with pro-poor low-carbon development in this context.…”

“…From a SAM perspective, the decomposition of the power activity for each country involves splitting the single electricity activity of the original GTAP input-output matrix into the various electricity subsectors distinguished in the CGE models in such a way that (i) the cost composition by input type in the subsectors is adequately represented; (ii) the contribution of each subsector to value-added and gross output value of the electricity sector is captured; and (iii) the accounting consistency of the SAM is preserved. To perform this non-trivial task, we combine data on the cost composition for different power generation technologies as well as for transmission and distribution from Peters (2016), Sue Wing (2008, and Lehr et al (2011) with the LCOE estimates for Kenya and Ghana (Table 1) by Pueyo, Bawakyillenuo and Osiolo (2016) and data on the power mix in the benchmark year reported in Republic of Kenya (2014) andEnCG (2016). A matrix-balancing algorithm is employed to establish full SAM consistency.…”

Back to the Future: A 25-year Retrospective on GTAP and the Shaping of a New Agenda

“…Turning back to energy issues, a recent, but important contribution has been to disaggregate the electricity sector in the newly released GTAP9-POWER data set (Peters, 2016). One of the critical limits for environmental analysis of existing income and product data is characterization of the electricity production as a single sector, utilizing multiple fuel inputs (and labor, capital and other intermediates).…”

North American natural gas and energy markets in transition: insights from global models

“…The Global Trade and Environment Model-CSIRO (GTEM-C) model is a recursive dynamic global CGE model that builds on the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) 9 database (Narayanan et al, 2015;Peters, 2015). The current version of the model has 13 regions and 19 sectors that include five energy sectors (coal, gas, crude oil, refined petroleum products, and electricity) and 14 non-energy sectors.…”

“…GTEM-C has aggregated power generations in the GTAP electricity database (Peters, 2015) into 8 technologies: coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and other renewables 2 . Having these technological details of power generation within a global general equilibrium framework allows GTEM-C to model the rising demand for natural gas in Asia due to, for example, the coal-to-gas switching in the Chinese power sector or the phase-out of nuclear power in Japan, and to evaluate its complex effects on the global energy markets.…”