Wiese, F. (2015). renpass - Renewable Energy Pathways Simulation System - Open Source as an approach to meet challenges in energy modeling. Dissertation. Europa-Universität Flensburg.
varying, 240 minutes is roughly for an hourly computation for one year
Renewable Energy Pathways Simulation System
Germany: 21 regions / other countries: country
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)
Minimization of costs for each time step (optimization) within the limits of a given infrastructure (simulation)
Electricity System Model / Regional Dispatch Model / Transshipment Model
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renpass is an open source simulation energy model which has the goal to fulfil the requirements of full transparency and the possibility to image 100% renewable energy systems as well as today's system on a high regional and time resolution. Currently renpass is being developed further as renpassG!S based on the Open Energy Modelling Framework (oemof).