MARKAL (MARKet ALlocation) Model

Project Summary

Full Title:	MARKAL (MARKet ALlocation) Model
Project ID:	149
Principal Investigator:	Chip Friley
Brief Description:	MARKAL is a computer-driven, dynamic optimization model that uses upwards of 10,000 equations and constraints to foster strategic energy planning.
Keywords:	Cost; energy use; emissions

Purpose

By integrating energy, environmental, and economic factors, the MARKAL model provides energy system solutions to support national planning and policy decisions. It finds a least cost set of technologies to satisfy end-use energy service demands and user-specified constraints, and calculates resulting environmental emissions.

Performer

Principal Investigator:	Chip Friley
Organization:	Brookhaven National Laboratory
Address:	Mail Stop 475C Upton, NY 11973-5000
Telephone:	631-344-5730
Email:	pfriley@bnl.gov

Period of Performance

Start:	1985

Project Description

Type of Project:	Model
Category:	Energy Infrastructure
Objectives:	Identify costs and benefits of alternative energy scenarios for the future; Estimate the relative merits of specific technologies that can be applied in an energy system.

Products/Deliverables

	Description: Model Description Publisher: Brookhaven National Laboratory http://www.bnl.gov/est/markal.asp Description: Model Description Publisher: IEA Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme http://www.etsap.org/markal/main.html

Date Last Updated: 03/12/2008