Background ==
openmod initiative main homepage
Energy models are widely used for policy advice and research. They serve to answer questions on energy policy, decarbonization, and transitions towards renewable energy sources. Yet, most energy models are black boxes – even to fellow researchers. This is what we want to change. We are a group of modellers from various universities and research institutes who want to promote open energy modelling. We believe that Open Source models and Open Data will advance knowledge and lead to better energy policies. Our mission is to enable Open Source energy modelling by providing a platform for collaboration as well as tools along the full value chain of energy economics and energy system models. That is why we founded the Open Energy Modelling Initiative (openmod initiative) just a year ago. You are welcome to join us for our next workshop!
After two extremely fruitful and encouraging workshops in Berlin (Sept 2014, April 2015), we will have our next workshop in London with an even more international focus. The aim is to give researchers a chance to present their own contributions to the field of open energy modelling and data, as well as to provide a forum to exchange ideas and work on concrete projects of the openmod initiative and more generally in the field of open energy modelling and data.
In order to sign up, please register on the Wiki, scroll all the way down to the participant list and add yourself. Please also feel free to add an idea for a presentation to the list below or propose break out sessions. Finally, please join our mailing list to receive updates.
3rd Open Energy Modelling Workshop
London, Imperial College
10/11 September 2015
Imperial College, Royal School of Mines Building
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/zZu3T
Begin: Thursday (10 September) 10.00
End: Friday (11 September) 16:00
Registration deadline: 10th August 2015
There is no registration fee, but you will need to cover your own food and lodging expenses. We may be able to cover lunch on one of the days, and we’ll provide tea/coffee/snacks, but that’s it.
Accommodation option: Imperial College student halls of residence can be booked as a bed and breakfast.
The workshop is hosted by the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment.
Ideas for Presentations
If you would like to make a presentation at the workshop, please add your name and proposed title to the list below. All suggestions are welcome!
- High Quality Wind Data for Energy Systems Models: Bias Correction and EU-wide Validation (Iain Staffell)
- The DESSTINEE Model for Demand for Energy Services, Supply and Transmission of Electricity IN EuropE, a simple open-source excel model for performing EU-wide electricity market simulations (Iain Staffell)
- Using reanalysis data to design optimal portfolios of renewable energies for Brazil (Unvortunately, I cannot attend. Remote contribution may be possible. Johannes Schmidt)
- urbs and rivus, two energy system optimisation models based on the Python/Pyomo/Pandas stack. One year of development and (new) user experiences.
- The design of NEMO, an open source electricity modelling tool (Ben Elliston, remote presentation)
- Presentation of the open source network model SciGRID: lessons learned so far (Wided Medjroubi, NEXT ENERGY)
- Introduction and lessons learned from the development of Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis (Temoa), or uncertainty analysis with Temoa (Joe DeCarolis, likely remote)
- Brief Overview of the LEAP software system. LEAP is a software tool for integrated energy planning and climate change mitigation scenario analysis used by a few thousand people in 190+ countries (http://www.energycommunity.org). NB: LEAP is not open source yet but I am considering making it so in the future and would really value hearing the experience and wisdom of this group. Charlie Heaps - LEAP Developer - Stockholm Environment Institute.
- OpenEnergy-Platform: requirements, challenges and first ideas (Guido Pleßmann)
Ideas for break-out-groups
The break out groups are currently being consolidated in the following Google Docs document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Hs_JuK56fV9xUVqrWg3zAp-RepjSSA37mj5JfdCbSg/edit#heading=h.8xn9p9kiati3
Please fill in the missing spots there!
Break out groups from last workshop
Some of these groups may wish to continue based on the outcomes from the last workshop:
Programme
Thursday morning
10.00 Start
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and important information (Stefan)
10.05 – 10.15 What is open-mod (Lion)
10.15 – 10.45 Introduction (everyone)
10.45 – 11.30 Model presentations 1 (plenary)
11.30 – 11.45 Coffee
11.45 – 12.30 Model presentations 2 (plenary
12.30 – 13.00 Introducing break-out groups (plenary)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
Thursday afternoon
14.00 – 15.15 Break-out groups 1 (parallel)
15.15 – 15.45 Reporting back (plenary)
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee
16.15 – 17.30 Break-out groups 2 (parallel)
17.30 – 18.00 Reporting back (plenary)
18.00 End of day
18:30 Dinner in a restaurant near campus
Friday morning
9.00 Start
9.00 – 9.15 Summary of first day
9.15 – 9.30 Introducing break-out groups
9.30 – 12.00 Break-out groups 3 (parallel) ,coffee: ongoing
12.00 – 12.30 Reporting back (plenary)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
Friday afternoon
13.30 – 14.30 Buffer
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee
15.00 – 16.00 Wrap up, next workshop
16.00 End of workshop
Saturday
One workshop room is available 9.00-14.00 if some people need a space to continue working
Participants
Registration deadline: 10th August 2015
- Stefan Pfenninger (Imperial College London)
- Lion Hirth (neon)
- Ingmar Schlecht (University of Basel)
- Iain Staffell (Imperial College Business School)
- Richard Green (Imperial College Business School)
- Johannes Dorfner (Technische Universität München)
- Clemens Gerbaulet (Technische Universität Berlin) (participation likely)
- Johannes Schmidt (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences BOKU, Vienna)
- Ed Sharp (University College London)
- Catalina Spataru (University College London)
- Mark Barrett (University College London)
- Graeme Hawker (profile) (University of Strathclyde)
- Warren Hicks (Reading University)
- Alejandro Dávila (university of Groningen)
- Adrien Schwane (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
- Jörn Richstein (TU Delft, participation likely)
- Alice Gunn (University of Reading)
- Abhishek Shivakumar (KTH)
- Tom Brown (from October: Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies)
- Paul Dodds (University College London, participation probably on only one day)
- James Price (UCL)
- David Kleinhans (NEXT ENERGY, participation likely)
- Wided Medjroubi (NEXT ENERGY)
- Carsten Matke (NEXT ENERGY)
- Daniel Drew (University of Reading)
- Francesco Gardumi (Politecnico di Milano)
- Daniel Crow (Imperial College)
- Simon Tindemans (Imperial College)
- Guido Pleßmann (Reiner Lemoine Institut [someone else of the institute])
- Verena Viskovic (University College London)
- Daniel Huppmann (DIW Berlin)
- Martin Jahn (Europa-Universität Flensburg)
- Wolf-Dieter Bunke (Europa-Universität Flensburg)
- Joe DeCarolis (NC State University; likely to join via remote link)
- Philip Sandwell (Imperial College London)
- Philip Sargent (DECC: Dept. of Energy and Climate Change)
- Frank Obermüller (ewi ER&S, Cologne)
- Koen van Dam (Imperial College London)
- Thomas Spitz (University of Edinburgh)
- Heidi Heinrichs (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
- Sheridan Few (Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London)
- Florian Steiner (Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London)
- Ajay Gambhir (Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London)
- Sylvain Quoilin (Joint Research Center, EU Commission)
- Vignesh Sridharan (KTH)
- Juan Camilo Herrera (University College London)
- Shai Hassid (University College London)
- Arnaud Koehl (University College London)
- Seán Collins (University College Cork)
- Charlie Heaps (Stockholm Environment Institute and Tufts University, Boston, MA)
- Moritz Schillinger (University of Basel)
- Rembrandt Koppelaar (Imperial College London)
- Simon Sawatzki (Technische Universität Berlin, participation likely)
- Niko Heeren (ETH Zurich)
- Chris Davis (University of Groningen)
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