IMACLIM India
Contact: Frédéric Ghersi
Indian contacts:
Prof. Priyadarshi Shukla, PSG, IIMA
Prof. Amit Garg, PSG, IIMA
Financial support: French Embassy in India, Chaire MPDD, PSG
The Network’s modelling activity on India builds on long lasting ties between CIRED and PSG at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. At the beginning of 2016, the 2 institutions decided to engage in the joint development of an IMACLIM model of India that could run coupled to the AIM End-use bottom-up model operated by PSG.
Work started in the summer of 2016 with hybridisation of national accounting and energy balance data. At the end of 2016 the 6-week stay of an Indian PhD student at CIRED allowed to complete a 22-sector hybrid matrix and to move on to modelling properly speaking. Current levels of commitment at CIRED and PSG allow anticipating an operational IMACLIM-IND by the end of summer 2018. The focus of its first implementations will be on transition pathways towards the Indian NDC.