User guide
Getting started with the model
How to install the model, bring in your own data, calibrate it, run a policy experiment and read the results. Written for the analyst who will do the work.
How to get started
What you need on the machine: GAMS, a solver, Python, and how the run scripts fit together.
Which national accounts and energy balance tables the model expects, and in what shape.
Reproducing your base year and checking that the accounts close.
Setting a shock, choosing the fiscal closure, switching the energy technology model on.
The reporting tables and how to compare a scenario with the baseline.
Working with modules without breaking the rest of the system.
Before you start
Read Chapter 1 of the documentation and the appendix on CES trees and indexing. Between them they explain nearly all of the notation used in the code.
Need Help?
The guide is written so that a team can work independently. Institutions taking part in the Commission's projects also receive direct support from DREAM. If you are starting a calibration outside those projects, say so when you write to us.