This document outlines a proposal to develop a TIMES-Starter model tailored for Argentina. It would identify technologies and commodities relevant for developing economies and not included in the standard TIMES-Starter model. The proposal would deliver an Argentina-specific TIMES-Starter model, an improved user manual, and a short description of the model. Completing the work would help extend ETSAP tool usage and provide a framework for Argentina's energy policy analysis while benefiting ETSAP through an improved learning experience and links to other organizations' work. The estimated cost is 24k Euro over 9 months starting in October 2015.

1. TIMES-Starter Model for
Argentina
T. Kober, G. Goldstein,
Potential involvement N. Sbroiavacca
(Fundacion Bariloche, ARG)

2. Data sources to be approached
comprise
• National energy balance, complemented with IEA data where
necessary;
• National projections of socio-economic indicators (GDP, population,
households), alternative UN-ESA and World Bank data to be used;
• Resource data from USGS, alternatively BGR data to be used;
• Data on renewable energy data from IRENA, DLR;
• Electricity capacity data from national sources, complemented with
PLATTS data;
• Emissions data from EDGAR and US-EPA;
• Data on industrial production from USGS, Worldsteel;
• Energy technology data from US-EPA (based upon the US-DOE EIA,
as current compiled in the TIMES-Start model), and
• the ETSAP ETechDS.

3. Tasks
• Identify commodities & technologies missing
from TIMES-Starter that are needed for
developing economies and add them;
• Tailor the TIMES-Starter RES to include on those
commodities & technologies reagent to
developing economies;
• Review and refine the TIMES-Starter
documentation while pursuing 1 & 2, and
• Prepare a short description on the TIMES-Starter
model for Argentina.

4. Deliverables
• TIMES-Starter model for Argentina
• Improved version of the TIMES-Starter
guidance manual
• Short description of the TIMES-Starter model
for Argentina

5. Relevance to the Annex XIII topics:
• “Extending the number of ETSAP tool users is
one of the main strategic directions for ETSAP,
in order to provide a consistent framework for
energy policy analysis to more countries
worldwide.”
• ETSAP capacity building

6. Time schedule & costs
• start close to finalization of the project
“Rethink of TIMES New User Experience - First
Step, a TIMES-Starter Model & Roadmap“
[Oct. 2015]
• Finished June 2016
• 24k Euro

7. Expected Benefits for ETSAP:
• improved learning experience for newcomers
to TIMES
• Created a better link of ETSAP tools for work
related to compilation of INDCs
• Link to the WB-CSPP