URBS
type: Ontology
creation date: 2026-08-17T01:14:56+02:00
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URBS
type: Subject
type: Category:Model
page: https://wiki.openmod-initiative.org/wiki/URBS
wiki namespace: 0
author institution: TUM EI ENS
authors: Johannes Dorfner; Magdalena Dorfner; Soner Candas; Sebastian Müller; Yunus Özsahin; Thomas Zipperle; Simon Herzog
citation doi: 10.5281/zenodo.46118
citation references: Dorfner, Johannes (2016). "Open Source Modelling and Optimisation of Energy Infrastructure at Urban Scale", doctoral thesis, Technical University of Munich
computation time comments: Highly dependent on model size (esp. storage) and solver (CPLEX, GLPK, Gurobi)
computation time minutes: 20
contact persons: Johannes Dorfner
data availability: some
decisions: dispatch
decisions: investment
deterministic: None
full model name: urbs
georegions: User-dependent
georesolution: User-dependent
is suited for many scenarios: true
license: GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPL-3.0)
math modeltype: Optimization
math modeltype shortdesc: Linear optimization model of a user-defined reference energy system.
math objective: Minimise total discounted cost of system
model class: Energy Modelling Framework
model source public: true
modelling software: Python (Pyomo)
network coverage: transmission
network coverage: net transfer capacities
number of variables: 100000
open future: true
open source licensed: true
processing software: Python (pandas et al)
sectors: User-dependent
sectors: Electricity
source download: urbs
technologies: Renewables
technologies: Conventional Generation
technologies: CHP
text description: urbs is a linear programming optimisation model for capacity expansion planning and unit commitment for distributed energy systems. Its name, latin for city, stems from its origin as a model for optimisation for urban energy systems. Since then, it has been adapted to multiple scales from neighbourhoods to continents.
timeresolution: Hour
website: urbs
wiki page creation date: 2015-04-28T13:17:20Z
creation date#aux: 2457141.0537037
wiki page last editor: User:Johannes Dorfner
wiki page modification date: 2017-01-12T14:46:45Z
modification date#aux: 2457766.1157986
wiki page is new: false
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