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Author institution |
Open source licensed |
Open future |
License |
Network |
Model class |
Model source public |
Decisions |
Regions |
Math modeltype |
Math objective |
Uncertainty |
Software |
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| AMIRIS |
German Aerospace Center |
true |
false |
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) |
|
Agent-based electricity market model |
true |
dispatch |
Germany, Austria |
Simulation
Agent-based |
|
stochastic, perfect foresight, deterministic |
Java |
| ASAM |
Europa-Universität Flensburg |
true |
false |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
|
Agent-based Simulation
Market Model
Electricity System Model
German and European Electricity Market |
true |
dispatch |
Europe |
Simulation
Agent-based |
|
|
Python (Pyomo) |
| ASSUME |
INATECH Freiburg |
true |
false |
Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0) |
transmission
distribution |
German and European Electricity Market
Network-constrained Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch
Agent-based electricity market model |
true |
dispatch |
Depending on input data |
Simulation
Agent-based |
Minimize cost, optimize dispatch per agent |
Deterministic |
Python, Pyomo |
| Antares-Simulator |
RTE |
true |
false |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
transmission
DC load flow
net transfer capacities |
Capacity Expansion Problem
Production Cost Model |
true |
dispatch
investment |
Europe |
Optimization
Simulation |
socio-economic welfare, investment costs, greenhouse gas emissions |
Monte-Carlo methods, myopic week-ahead foresight |
C++, C |
| AnyMOD |
TU Berlin |
true |
true |
MIT license (MIT) |
transmission
net transfer capacities |
Framework |
true |
dispatch
investment |
User-dependent |
Optimization |
cost minimization by default, can set other objectives |
single-stage scenarios |
Julia/JuMP |
| Backbone |
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
true |
false |
GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPL-3.0) |
transmission
DC load flow
net transfer capacities |
Framework |
true |
dispatch
investment |
Depends on user |
Optimization |
Cost minimization; emission minimization; |
Short-term and long-term stochastics are available |
GAMS |
| Balmorel |
RAM-løse, DTU |
true |
true |
ISC License (ISC) |
net transfer capacities
transmission
DC load flow |
Energy System Model |
true |
dispatch
investment |
User-dependent (Pan-European, applied in 20+ countries) |
Optimization |
Social welfare maximization |
Deterministic, perfect foresight, global sensitivity analysis |
GAMS |
| Breakthrough Energy Model |
Breakthrough Energy Foundation |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
transmission
DC load flow |
Framework |
true |
dispatch |
Currently U.S., but extendable to any region |
Optimization
Simulation |
Minimize cost |
Scenario Analysis (Deterministic) |
Julia/JuMP |
| CAPOW |
North Carolina State University |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
transmission |
CAISO and Mid-Columbia markets/U.S. West Coast |
true |
dispatch |
|
Simulation |
Cost minimization |
Short-term and long-term stochastics are available |
Python (Pyomo) |
| CESAR-P |
Urban Energy Systems Lab, Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) |
true |
false |
Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0) |
|
Swiss building stock |
false |
|
Switzerland |
Simulation |
|
|
Python, EnergyPlus |
| Calliope |
ETH Zürich |
true |
true |
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) |
net transfer capacities
transmission
distribution |
Framework |
true |
dispatch
investment |
User-dependent |
Optimization |
User-dependent, including financial cost, CO2, and water consumption |
Deterministic; stochastic programming add-on |
Python (Pyomo) |
| CapacityExpansion |
Stanford University, RWTH Aachen |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
|
Capacity Expansion Problem |
true |
dispatch
investment |
Input data dependent |
Optimization |
Total system cost |
|
Julia/JuMP |
| DESSTinEE |
Imperial College London |
true |
true |
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0) |
net transfer capacities |
Simulation |
true |
dispatch |
Europe, North Africa |
Simulation |
Costs, welfare, carbon emissions, fuel mixes |
Stochastic |
Excel / VBA |
| DIETER |
DIW Berlin |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
|
Optimization |
true |
dispatch
investment |
Initial version: greenfield, loosely calibrated to Germany; central European version also available |
Optimization |
Cost minimization |
- (work in progress) |
GAMS; CPLEX |
| Demod |
EPFL |
true |
false |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
|
Simulation |
true |
|
Germany, UK |
Simulation |
Assess domestic energy demand evolution and demand-side-management scenarios |
Not yet implemented |
Python |
| Dispa-SET |
European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
true |
false |
European Union Public Licence Version 1.1 (EUPL-1.1) |
net transfer capacities |
EU power system |
true |
dispatch |
Currently, 7 EU countries |
Optimization |
Minimization of operational costs |
Through proper sizing of reserve needs |
Python (Pyomo), GAMS |
| DynPP |
University of Rostock |
false |
false |
|
net transfer capacities |
Specific Power Plants |
false |
investment |
Specific plants |
Optimization
Simulation |
operation, cost, emissions, thermal stress |
Deterministic |
Modelica, Dymola, (OpenModelica), C++, MySQL, SQLite |
| EA-PSM Electric Arc Flash |
JSC Energy Advice |
false |
false |
|
transmission
distribution
AC load flow
DC load flow |
|
false |
|
Global, European Union, Lithuania, Turkey, Poland, India |
Optimization
Simulation |
|
|
Java |
| EA-PSM Electric Short Circuit |
JSC Energy Advice |
false |
false |
|
transmission
distribution
AC load flow
DC load flow |
|
false |
|
Global, European Union, Lithuania, Turkey, Poland, India |
Optimization
Simulation |
|
|
Java |
| ELMOD |
Technische Universität Berlin |
true |
true |
MIT license (MIT) |
transmission
DC load flow |
German and European Electricity Market |
true |
dispatch |
Germany, Europe |
Optimization |
|
|
GAMS |
| ELTRAMOD |
Technische Universität Dresden (ee2) |
false |
true |
|
transmission
net transfer capacities |
German and European Electricity Market |
false |
dispatch
investment |
EU-27 + Norway + Switzerland + United Kingdom + Balkan countries |
Optimization |
Minimization of total system costs |
Deterministic; Perfect foresight; Sensitivity analysis ; |
GAMS; CPLEX |
| EMLab-Generation |
Delft University of Technology |
true |
true |
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) |
net transfer capacities |
Agent-based Simulation |
true |
dispatch
investment |
Central Western Europe |
Simulation
Agent-based |
|
Limited foresight, optional risk aversion |
Java |
| EMMA |
Neon Neue Energieökonomik GmbH |
true |
true |
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY-3.0) |
net transfer capacities |
Power market model |
true |
dispatch
investment |
France, Poland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Norway |
Optimization |
Total system cost |
Sensitivities (many) |
GAMS |
| EOLES elec |
CIRED |
true |
false |
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0) |
transmission |
Electricity System Model |
true |
dispatch
investment |
|
Optimization
Simulation |
investment cost and operational costs (fixed and variable) minimization |
Deterministic; Perfect foresight; Sensitivity analysis ; |
GAMS |
| EOLES elecRES |
CIRED |
true |
false |
Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA-4.0) |
transmission |
Electricity System Model |
true |
dispatch
investment |
|
Optimization
Simulation |
investment cost and operational costs (fixed and variable) minimization |
Deterministic; Perfect foresight; Sensitivity analysis ; Robust decision making |
GAMS |
| ESO-X |
Imperial College London |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
|
power system model |
true |
dispatch
investment |
UK |
Optimization |
minimise total system cost |
scenario analysis |
GAMS; CPLEX |
| Energy Policy Simulator |
Energy Innovation, LLC |
true |
false |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
|
System Dynamics |
true |
dispatch
investment |
|
Simulation |
|
Monte carlo |
Vensim |
| Energy Transition Model |
Quintel Intelligence |
true |
true |
MIT license (MIT) |
transmission
distribution
net transfer capacities |
Demand driven energy model |
true |
dispatch |
EU27, The Netherlands, UK, Poland, France, Germany, Spain, Brazil |
Simulation |
Given demand and other choices, calculate primary energy use, costs, CO2-emission etc. |
The user can assess the impact of almost every input variable and assumption |
Developed in-house written in Ruby (on Rails) |
| EnergyNumbers-Balancing |
UCL Energy Institute |
false |
false |
|
|
Simulating storage and exogenously-variable renewables |
false |
dispatch |
Britain, Germany, Spain |
Simulation |
|
Deterministic |
Fortran, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS |
| EnergyRt |
|
true |
true |
Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0) |
|
Reference Energy System |
true |
|
|
Optimization |
costs |
perfect foresight |
GAMS; GLPK |
| EnergyScope |
EPFL, UCLouvain |
true |
false |
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) |
|
Regional energy system design |
true |
dispatch
investment |
Region (Switzerland, Belgium) |
Optimization |
financial cost, greenhouse gases emissions |
|
GLPK/GLPSOL or AMPL/Cplex |
| Ficus |
Institute for Energy Economy and Application Technology |
true |
true |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
|
energy system optimization model |
true |
dispatch
investment |
|
Optimization |
costs |
None |
Python (Pyomo) |
| FlexiGIS |
DLR Institute of Networked Energy Systems |
true |
false |
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause) |
distribution |
urban energy systems |
true |
|
|
Optimization
Simulation |
simualte local urban demand and supply, localise distributed storage, minimise total system costs |
|
Python |
| GAMAMOD |
Technische Universität Dresden (EE2) |
false |
true |
|
transmission
distribution |
European Natural Gas Market |
false |
dispatch
investment |
|
Optimization |
|
|
GAMS |
| GAMAMOD-DE |
Technische Universität Dresden (EE2) |
false |
true |
|
transmission |
German Transmission Grid |
false |
dispatch |
Germany |
Optimization
Simulation |
|
|
GAMS; CPLEX |
| GRIMSEL-FLEX |
University of Geneva |
true |
false |
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" or "FreeBSD" License (BSD-2-Clause) |
transmission
net transfer capacities |
Energy System Model
Optimization
Social Planner |
true |
dispatch |
Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, Germany |
Optimization |
Minimization of total system costs |
Perfect foresight, Sensitivity analisys, Scenarios |
Python (Pyomo) |
| Genesys |
RWTH-Aachen University |
true |
false |
GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1) |
transmission
net transfer capacities |
Electricity System Model |
false |
dispatch
investment |
Europe, North Africa, Middle East |
Optimization
Simulation |
minimise levelised cost of electricity |
24 h foresight for storage operation |
C++, boost library, MySQL and QT4, (optional CPLEX solver implementation) |
| GridCal |
|
true |
true |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
transmission
distribution
AC load flow
DC load flow |
Transmission Network Model and Data (input and output) |
true |
|
|
Optimization
Simulation |
Match generation to demand and minimise cost |
Deterministic, stochastic |
Python |
| HighRES |
UCL, UiO |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
transmission
net transfer capacities |
European electricity system model
GB electricity system model |
false |
dispatch
investment |
EEA+Norway and UK |
Optimization |
Minimization of total system costs |
|
GAMS; CPLEX |
| IRENA FlexTool |
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
true |
false |
GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 3.0 (LGPL-3.0) |
transmission
net transfer capacities |
Multi-purpose |
true |
dispatch
investment |
User dependent |
Optimization |
cost minimization |
perfect foresight, but can use limited horizon |
GNU MathProg |
| JMM |
Risoe National Laboratory; University of Stuttgart; University of Duisburg-Essen |
false |
false |
|
|
|
false |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Lemlab |
Technical University of Munich |
true |
false |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
|
agent-based simulation |
true |
|
|
Simulation
Agent-based |
|
perfect forecast, deterministic, stochastic |
Python, Pyomo |
| LoadProfileGenerator |
FZ Jülich |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
|
|
true |
|
|
|
|
|
C# |
| MEDEAS |
GEEDS group; University of Valladolid (http://www.eis.uva.es/energiasostenible/?lang=en) |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
|
|
false |
|
Global; European Union; Bulgaria; Austria |
Other |
CO2 equivalent emissions, energy, social, economic costs, RE-share |
Deterministic |
Phyton |
| MOCES |
Chair of Automation and Energy Systems (Saarland University) |
false |
true |
|
|
Energy Modeling Framework |
false |
dispatch |
Depends on user |
Simulation
Agent-based |
|
deterministic, stochastic |
Modelica, Dymola, (OpenModelica), C++, MySQL, SQLite |
| Maon |
Maon GmbH |
false |
false |
|
transmission
distribution
AC load flow
DC load flow
net transfer capacities |
Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) |
false |
dispatch
investment |
Europe, North Africa, Middle East |
Optimization
Simulation
Other
Agent-based |
Minimization of dispatch and investment cost |
Monte Carlo, preprocessing or sensitivity |
C++ |
| Medea |
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
net transfer capacities |
Austrian and German electricity market |
true |
dispatch
investment |
Austria, Germany |
Optimization |
Total system cost |
Deterministic |
GAMS |
| MicroGridsPy |
Politecnico di Milano |
true |
false |
European Union Public Licence Version 1.1 (EUPL-1.1) |
|
Energy Modeling Framework |
true |
dispatch
investment |
|
Optimization |
Single or multi objective optimization (NPC, operation costs, CO2 emissions) |
Two-stage stochastic optimization |
Python (Pyomo) |
| Mosaik |
OFFIS |
true |
false |
GNU Library or "Lesser" General Public License version 2.1 (LGPL-2.1) |
transmission
distribution |
distributed energy systems
smart grid simulation |
true |
|
|
Optimization
Simulation
Agent-based |
|
|
Python |
| MultiMod |
DIW Berlin, NTNU Trondheim |
false |
true |
|
transmission
net transfer capacities |
Equilibrium model |
false |
dispatch
investment |
Global |
Other |
|
Not covered (yet) |
GAMS |
