(Energy) Policies Can Be Complicated: So Be Careful With Your Simulators!

Eric Austin and Jörg Denzinger

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Proc. SSCI 2020, Canberra, 2020, pp. 2148-2155.


Abstract

We present an Evolutionary Algorithm for testing the quality of policy simulators that also can be used for using the simulator for decision support. Our focus is on a simulator for energy policies for the Canadian province of Alberta. Our results show that the simulator works rather well in regard to its predictions of the environmental consequences of policies but seems to have serious flaws regarding its economic predictions.


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