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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 |
AMIRIS |
German Aerospace Center |
true |
false |
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) |
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Agent-based electricity market model |
true |
dispatch |
Germany, Austria |
Simulation Agent-based |
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stochastic, perfect foresight, deterministic |
Java |
ASAM |
Europa-Universität Flensburg |
true |
false |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
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Agent-based Simulation Market Model Electricity System Model German and European Electricity Market |
true |
dispatch |
Europe |
Simulation Agent-based |
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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 |
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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) |
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Swiss building stock |
false |
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Switzerland |
Simulation |
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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) |
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Capacity Expansion Problem |
true |
dispatch investment |
Input data dependent |
Optimization |
Total system cost |
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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) |
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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) |
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Simulation |
true |
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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 |
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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 |
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transmission distribution AC load flow DC load flow |
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false |
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Global, European Union, Lithuania, Turkey, Poland, India |
Optimization Simulation |
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Java |
EA-PSM Electric Short Circuit |
JSC Energy Advice |
false |
false |
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transmission distribution AC load flow DC load flow |
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false |
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Global, European Union, Lithuania, Turkey, Poland, India |
Optimization Simulation |
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Java |
ELMOD |
Technische Universität Berlin |
true |
true |
MIT license (MIT) |
transmission DC load flow |
German and European Electricity Market |
true |
dispatch |
Germany, Europe |
Optimization |
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GAMS |
ELTRAMOD |
Technische Universität Dresden (ee2) |
false |
true |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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) |
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System Dynamics |
true |
dispatch investment |
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Simulation |
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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 |
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Simulating storage and exogenously-variable renewables |
false |
dispatch |
Britain, Germany, Spain |
Simulation |
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Deterministic |
Fortran, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS |
EnergyRt |
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true |
true |
Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0) |
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Reference Energy System |
true |
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Optimization |
costs |
perfect foresight |
GAMS; GLPK |
EnergyScope |
EPFL, UCLouvain |
true |
false |
Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0) |
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Regional energy system design |
true |
dispatch investment |
Region (Switzerland, Belgium) |
Optimization |
financial cost, greenhouse gases emissions |
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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) |
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energy system optimization model |
true |
dispatch investment |
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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 |
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Optimization Simulation |
simualte local urban demand and supply, localise distributed storage, minimise total system costs |
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Python |
GAMAMOD |
Technische Universität Dresden (EE2) |
false |
true |
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transmission distribution |
European Natural Gas Market |
false |
dispatch investment |
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Optimization |
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GAMS |
GAMAMOD-DE |
Technische Universität Dresden (EE2) |
false |
true |
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false |
dispatch |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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false |
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Lemlab |
Technical University of Munich |
true |
false |
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0) |
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agent-based simulation |
true |
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Simulation Agent-based |
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perfect forecast, deterministic, stochastic |
Python, Pyomo |
LoadProfileGenerator |
FZ Jülich |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
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true |
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C# |
MEDEAS |
GEEDS group; University of Valladolid (http://www.eis.uva.es/energiasostenible/?lang=en) |
true |
false |
MIT license (MIT) |
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false |
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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 |
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Energy Modeling Framework |
false |
dispatch |
Depends on user |
Simulation Agent-based |
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deterministic, stochastic |
Modelica, Dymola, (OpenModelica), C++, MySQL, SQLite |
Maon |
Maon GmbH |
false |
false |
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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) |
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Energy Modeling Framework |
true |
dispatch investment |
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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 |
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Optimization Simulation Agent-based |
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Python |
MultiMod |
DIW Berlin, NTNU Trondheim |
false |
true |
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transmission net transfer capacities |
Equilibrium model |
false |
dispatch investment |
Global |
Other |
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Not covered (yet) |
GAMS |