Welcome to the wiki page of the upcoming Third Workshop of the Open Energy Modelling Initiative, a grass-root organization of modellers from various European research institutes and universities. After two workshops in Berlin, we will be guest at Imperial College's Grantham Institute. The workshop takes place September 10/11. As always, there is no registration fee.
It will be a work-shop in the sense of the word, with only little time devoted to plenary presentation and most time to hands-on parallel sessions (break-out groups). This is a wiki page that will be updated frequently, and all participants are invited to contribute.
Background
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.
Practical information
Venue: London, Imperial College, Royal School of Mines Building
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/zZu3T
10/11 September 2015
Begin: Thursday (10 September) 10.00
End: Friday (11 September) 16:00
Sign up: register on the Wiki, and add yourself to "participants"
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Fee: no registration fee, but you will need to cover your own food and lodging expenses.
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.
Programme
Thursday morning
From 9:30 Coffee/tea available
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 – 12.15 Model presentations (plenary)
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee break
12.30 – 13.00 Introducing break-out groups (plenary)
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch (on Imperial College campus)
Thursday afternoon
14.00 – 15.15 Break-out groups 1 (parallel)
15.15 – 15.45 Reporting back (plenary)
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 – 17.30 Break-out groups 2 (parallel)
17.30 – 18.00 Reporting back (plenary)
18.00 End of day
18:30 Dinner and drinks at the Builder's Arms pub (directions from workshop location) – IMPORTANT: you must sign up for dinner in advance here.
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 (on Imperial College campus)
Friday afternoon
13.30 – 14.30 Buffer
14.30 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 16.00 Wrap up, next workshop
16.00 End of workshop
Model presentations
The goal of this session is to get a flavor what people do: What questions are they interested in? What kind of models they apply? Which software tools do they use? How do they interact with the modelling community? This is not about presenting a research paper or discussing in-depth modelling methodology. Not more than 2-3 slides per presentation.
- NEMO, an open source electricity modelling tool (Ben Elliston, remote)
- Tools for Energy Model Optimization and Analysis (Temoa) (Joe DeCarolis)
- The SciGRID model, a network model based on OpenStreetMap (Wided Medjroubi)
- The DESSTINEE Model, for Demand for Energy Services, Supply and Transmission of Electricity (Iain Staffell)
- urbsand rivus, two energy system models based on Python (Johannes Dorfner)
- The LEAP software system, a software tool for integrated energy planning and climate change mitigation scenario analysis (Charlie Heaps)
- The European Power Market model EMMA (Lion Hirth)
- The Open Power System Data platform, a data hub for power system data (Wolf-Dieter / Ingmar / Lion)
- Open Energy-Modelling Platform oemof (Guido Pleßmann)
- UCED model based on high spatial resolution wind dataset for the UK power system (Thomas Spitz)
- DispaSET - Open-Source unit commitment and optimal dispatch model (Sylvain Quoilin, JRC)
- [Presentation session is full -- no further talks can be considered]
Break-out-groups
In parallel sessions, we break out into smaller groups to get work done. On the last workshop, we started drafting an article on open modelling, re-worked the openmod-website, compiled an overview of applicable licenses, and developed recommendations for power plant identifiers, among other things.
All groups report back to the plenary and document their work.
Proposeld break-out groups
- Open weather data
- Renewables.ninja
- Use of models in government and industry
- Model Factsheets
- Open model testing
- Demand side and storage
- Wind potentials
- Hydro electricity
- The Open Power System Data platform
- Pros and cons of Open Source modelling
- Energy modeling for beginners
- OpenEnergy platform
- Open Access publishing in energy modelling
- Openmod article
- Conference
- Funders best practice list
- Data sources hackathon
- Openmod website
- Which license fits my model?
Details are collected in this Google document. Please fill in missing spots. You are invited to add your name to the group you wish to coordinate or participate in. Expect more groups to be announced in site!
Break out groups from last workshop
Some of these groups may wish to continue based on the outcomes from the last workshop:
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)
- 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, probably via remote link)
- Alice Gunn (University of Reading)
- Abhishek Shivakumar (KTH)
- Tom Brown (from October: Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies)
- Giorgio Castagneto Gissey (University College London)
- James Price (UCL)
- David Kleinhans (NEXT ENERGY)
- Wided Medjroubi (NEXT ENERGY)
- CarstenMatke (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)
- 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)
- Chris Davis (University of Groningen)
- Paul Deane (university College Cork)
- Ben Elliston (University of New South Wales, join via remote link)
- Maragatham (University College London)
- Grant Wilson (Sheffield)
- Angela Francis (Green Alliance)
- Martin Glauer (OvGU Magdeburg)
- Hannah Bloomfield (University of Reading)
- -- Registration is now closed; but you can add your name to the waiting list below. --
Waiting list:
- Kaveri Iychettira (Delft University of Technology, KTH)
- Mark Howells (KTH)
- Fabrizio Fattori (University of Pavia)
- ...add your name here... Waiting list is open: just register with this wiki and click edit on this page.
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