ASATREM srl

ASATREM srl is an Italian consulting company active in the field of Applied Systems Analyses, Technology and Research, Energy Models. It develops and uses quantitative methods for evaluating the economic and environmental impact of long term choices in energy supply and demand sectors.

It is presently the Operating Agent of the Energy Technology Systems Analysis Program of the International Energy Agency (IEA/ETSAP). Acting on behalf of 17 ETSAP participating countries (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, EC/DG Research, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, UK, US) it manages the group of MARKAL-TIMES users, the continuous improvement of the MARKAL-TIMES and related tools, and it pushes forward the development and use of technical economic models for policy analysis of global, regional, national and local systems (see www.etsap.org).

ASATREM has participated to the TACIS project “Technical assistance to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan with respect to their global climate change commitments”. It aimed at assisting the Central Asian countries to fulfil their obligations in respect to the United Nation Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP). Task 6 of the project aimed at enhancing economic modelling capacity in Kazakhstan. For this 30-month 4.5 M€ project Mr. Tosato has spent several weeks in Almaty and Astana training a team of Kazakh experts. At the completion of the project (September 2006) Dr. Tosato delivered the final report “Energy system and CO2 emission scenarios for Kazakhstan, prepared with the technical economic MARKAL-MACRO modelling tool”; the full text of the report is downloadable from http://www.sofreco.com/projets/c886/Reports.htm. In the Balkans ASATREM has cooperated to the training of local experts in the evaluation of possible long term developments of local energy markets in a project financed by USAID.

ASATREM participates to EC funded research projects with important companies and organizations. The company has participated to the initial formulation of the NEEDS project ((New Energy Externality for Development and Sustainability). Presently ASATREM is responsible for the preparition of energy scenarios in the REACCESS project (Risk of Energy Availability: Common Corridors for Europe Supply Security; January 2008 – December 2010) for the integrated analyses of the energy corridors that supply energy to Europe. ASATREM participate as well to the REALISEGRID project (REseArch, methodoLogIes and technologieS for the effective development of pan-European key GRID infrastructures to support the achievement of a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply) that started in September 2008 (duration: 30 months).

ASATREM provides consultancy through its founder, Mr. GianCarlo TOSATO, and the external support of junior researchers, among which Eng. Maurizio Gargiulo.

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GianCarlo TOSATO

GianCarlo Tosato is a senior energy technology system analyst. He has worked for thirty five years now at energy modelling and analysis in private companies and public organizations, domestically and internationally.

Since February 2002, he is Research Director and Operating Agent of the Implementing Agreement on the Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme (ETSAP; www.etsap.org) within the framework of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Most IEA/OECD countries are active members of ETSAP and have been co-operating for some 30 years now on energy technology analysis using the MARKAL/TIMES system, a technical-economic modelling tool developed and distributed by ETSAP. Mr. Tosato has provided leadership and made substantial contributions to promoting and expanding ETSAP membership and activity worldwide. The ETSAP analyses and models are currently used in more than 50 countries and adopted as a reference tool for quantitative evaluations of energy and technology policies, environmental protection and climate change mitigation strategies. ETSAP models are currently used at the IEA Secretariat in Paris (France).

As the ETSAP Research Director and senior energy expert, Mr. Tosato is advisor of international and national organisations such as the International Energy Agency (Energy Technology Perspective project and NEET initiative), the European Fusion Development Agreement (EU-EFDA, Garching, Germany), the United States Energy Information Administration (System for the Analysis of Global Energy markets, SAGE project), and national organisations of other countries. He provides advice in carrying out global and multi-regional technical-economic energy analysis, where the end-use technologies play a major role. He made direct contributions in developing energy system models and analysis of European countries (Italy, Portugal) and regions (Piemonte, Basilicata, etc.) as well as in analysing the energy system and prospects of emerging countries with key role in the world energy supply (e.g., Kazakhstan).

Mr. Tosato actively participates in European Union research projects such as REACCESS (risk assessment of long-term energy security in Europe), NEEDS (dynamic evaluation of energy externalities) and REALISEGRID (improved electric networks). He also participated in the SEE-REDP project (evaluation of the energy demands in South East European countries) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

To carry out his activity, Mr. Tosato is frequently in contact with national representatives of IEA Member countries and non-Member countries at technical, diplomatic and political level. He organizes and chairs international workshops on energy modelling and scenario building, and gives presentations on related topics at international conferences across the world.

Mr Tosato’s past employments and responsibilities include: the European Fusion Development Agreement (Max Plank Institute fur Plasma Physik – Garching, Germany) where he was the leader of the Social-Economic Office; the Energy Information Administration (Washington DC, US) where he coordinated the implementation of the new EIA energy model; the Italian Energy Agency (ENEA) where he was the head of the Energy Strategies Office. Other employments include CESEN-Ansaldo (Genoa, Italy), ENI (Rome, Italy), and KernForschungsAnlage (Juelich, Germany). Mr Tosato is author of number of reports, papers, articles and books.

Maurizio GARGIULO

Maurizio GARGIULO graduates in Environmental Engineering in 2001 from the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy) and took a Master in Industrial Safety and Risk Analysis in 2003.

Since 2001 he has been collaborating with an Italian company (RAMS&E - Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety and Environment) on activities concerning industrial safety and reliability and power plants environmental impact.

Since 2002 he has been collaborating with the Polytechnic University of Turin, the Italian Association of Energy Economist (AIEE) and Energy Foundation on national and international research projects in the field of energy environmental planning and modelling. In the same period he followed the development of the multi-regional Italian electricity model with TIMES in collaboration with the Italian electricity research centre (CESI RICERCA) and some Italian Local models with TIMES in collaboration with Foundation ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

Presently, he is involved in some EC funded research projects: the FP6 Integrated Project “NEEDS” (UK-TIMES model and Pan European Model), the RES2020 Project (Pan European TIMES) and the European Fusion Development Agreement (ETM-TIMES model).

More recently he cooperates to two important EC projects: the FP7-“Energy for Risk of Energy Availability: Common Corridors for Europe Supply Security” (REACCESS project) and “Research, methodologies and technologies for the effective development of pan-European key GRID infrastructures to support the achievement of a reliable, competitive and sustainable electricity supply” (REALISEGRID project).

Outside Europe he is giving consultancy to the International Research Group (IRG, Washington DC) on the following projects: Development and Supply of a Domestic Energy Model for Saudi Arabia with TIMES, for ARAMCO, and Development and Supply of a Domestic Energy Model for Pakistan, for the Asian Development Bank.

In Italy he is developing in collaboration with the Italian research centre (Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie l’Energia e l’Ambiente - ENEA) and CESI RICERCA the multi-regional Italian TIMES model.

Eng. Gargiulo participates actively to the activities of the Implementing Agreement for a Program of Energy Technology Systems Analysis of the International Energy Agency (IEA-ETSAP): he is holding courses on the VEDA-TIMES tool, and is drafting the second version of the VEDA-TIMES Getting Started manual.