Corporation de l'ecole des hautes etudes commerciales de Montreal

Published purpose

GERAD’s participation in the H2CliP project aims to provide insights on the role of hydrogen (H2) toward carbon neutrality and security of energy supply by expanding, updating, validating, and then using MERGE, GERAD’s world integrated assessment model. This model performs integrated assessments of energy and climate policies by combining socio-economic, geophysical, and environmental elements. First, MERGE needs to be updated to consider, on the one hand, several H2 production pathways, and on the other hand, the consumption of H2 in different economic sectors and its trade on international markets. These modeling improvements will enable GERAD to perform with MERGE a series of policy simulations following both cost-benefit and cost effectiveness approaches. A specific attention will be given to Canada to analyze the impacts of different energy and climate policies on the Canadian energy sector and its overall economy.