Regional Training: with EU Experts about Renewable Kinds of Energy and New Technologies
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The University of Montenegro and the Center for Energy of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the UMNE, together with the International Atomic Energy Agency, organized a Regional Training on the assessment of energy supply from renewable forms of energy, which are related to energy and climate strategies, at the CUE Hotel in Podgorica.
The training, which began on March 6th, and will last until March 17th, is part of the project "Analysis of low-carbon roads with the aim of decarbonizing the energy sector in the EU by 2050". The national coordinator of this project is Igor Vušanović, Ph.D., full professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and head of the multidisciplinary masters study program Energy Efficiency at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
"The regional training brought together 22 experts from more than 15 EU countries and beyond, and our expectations are that it will improve the capacity to assess ambitious emission reductions related to energy supply with the IAEA MESSAGE model, including part of national energy and climate plans and strategies." Accordingly, it is expected that in the future there will be a deeper understanding of the role of certain technologies and their contribution to scenarios for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The training is an opportunity to encourage new approaches that are applied as part of ongoing or future national studies in energy. We are sure that this event will contribute to the overall outcome of the project, i.e. strengthening institutional capacities for the development of national energy and climate plans and strategies to support the definition of obligations under the Paris Agreement," Professor Vušanović said.
Next to him, active participants in training for energy package of the MESSAGE project are Associate Professor Esad Tombarević, Head of the Center for Energy at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and Boris Hrnčić, M.Sc., PhD student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the field of energy planning and implementation of optimization methods in energy planning.
"Purpose of the training is to train participants to use the IAEA tool called MESSAGE for techno-economic assessments of energy supply using advanced decarbonization methods that should lead to carbon neutrality of Montenegro by 2050," Professor Vušanović explained.
Attendees will acquire skills to assess related pathways and trends, such as increasing electrification of the energy system and increasing share of (variable) low-carbon generation while maintaining reliable operation of the power system and ensuring security of supply. For this purpose, the IAEA energy systems model called MESSAGE will be applied in the future in Montenegro.
The project within which the training is implemented is designed to support development of energy strategies to mitigate climate change in accordance with the Paris Agreement, including countries plans for the implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) and National Energy and Climate Plans (NECP). In addition, the project aims to support Member States in their preparation for submission of related updates, which for the NDC are due by 2025 and for the NECP by 2023 and 2024 for draft and final updates.
„Many countries participating in this project shall by the middle of century reach zero emission. In order to transfer such ambitions into energetic roads that are accessible, efficient and sustainable, there is holistic approach needed for energetic assessments. It needs to include all energetic sectors, including electrical energy, heating and cooling and transport, with balancing among supply and consumption and measures for saving emissions. Furthermore, it has to be technologically neutral in order to ensure impartial assessment of all options for mitigation. Stated regional course is focused on analyzing role of energetic technologies towards ambitious energetic systems with low carbon share“, Vušanović said.