What happens when #OpenSource energy modeling meets African open-source developers?

⚡ At OSCA Fest in Lagos, we presented open energy planning to developers, graduates & entrepreneurs via the #MapYourGrid project and PyPSA-Earth. The workshop sparked big interest in applying open-source energy solutions for Africa’s future.

Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/apgm15GVhSM
Are you looking for a speaker at your next event? Reach out to us.

#EnergyTransition #EnergyModeling

OSCA2025 workshop: Powering Africa With Open Tools

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FREE webinar: Commercial-Grade Open-Source Software for Energy Planning

Sept 18, 16-18:00 CEST | Online

Learn how TSOs & industry use PyPSA, PowSyBl for grid simulation & power flow modeling. Panel with RTE, Artelys, LF Energy + lightning talks from ACER, Austrian Power Grid, TransnetBW & more.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-commercial-grade-open-source-software-for-energy-planning-tickets-1542212321569

#OpenSource #EnergyModeling

Lightning talk on open-source tools for Europe's electricity grid planning using PyPSA-Eur at the latest PyPSA User Meeting. We are building workflows to complement current proprietary tools for the Ten-Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP).

Want to know more?
🎥 Talk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=EcKnEjtXQmQ
📖 Slides: https://zenodo.org/records/15848646
🔗 Code: https://github.com/open-energy-transition/open-tyndp

#ENTSOE #PyPSA #EnergyModeling #OpenSource

Open TYNDP with PyPSA

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Faster models, smarter transitions with an open-source benchmark of #optimization #solvers from the energy planning domain⚡️
Test user James Glynn (ESMA) tried the Open Energy Benchmark. It is mixing open & proprietary solvers with smart filters. Speeds research, drives innovation, boosts competition.

Thank you for your insights, James.

🔗 Try it here: https://openenergybenchmark.org/
🔗 Read the whole article here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7350816973015900161

#EnergyModeling #OpenSource #EnergyTransition #Decarbonization

'Application Analysis of Photovoltaic Integrated Shading Devices Considering Indoor Environment and Energy Change in Green Buildings' - an article in the Journal of #GreenBuilding on #ScienceOpen:

🔗 https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=c12a5197-2d55-4d11-bfe4-a759f7b54c1c

#SustainableArchitecture #EnvironmentalEngineering #EnergyModeling #Photovoltaics

🚀 Launching: Awesome Grid Model Data! A curated, open-licensed catalogue of electricity grid model datasets to power interoperability in energy modeling.

Why? Because real-world, ready-to-use datasets are essential for testing and building interoperable tools but they’re often scattered or inconsistent.

🔗 Explore: https://github.com/open-energy-transition/Awesome-Grid-Model-Data
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Let’s build open, cross-compatible grid modeling together!
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Open Energy Benchmark has been tested and is live! Supported by @BreakthroughEnergy, it compares 5 solvers across 120 benchmarks (modeling frameworks: PyPSA, GenX, Sienna, PowerModels, Tulipa, TEMOA, and TIMES)

One of our test user, Victor Guillot (MINES Paris), calls it intuitive and a big time-saver.

A great tool for anyone working on energy models & decarbonization.

🔗 Try it out & let us know what you think: https://openenergybenchmark.org/

#EnergyModeling #OpenSource #EnergyTransition

Open Energy Benchmark

An open-source benchmark of optimization solvers on representative problems from the energy planning domain.

Open Energy Benchmark

Last week, three of our colleagues taught a Modeling Regional Power Markets with open-source tools course in Johannesburg! 35 energy pros from 6 African countries learned Python and PyPSA.

Key insights:
📌 Power pools = more investment opportunities
📌 Open-source tools democratizing energy planning
📌 Local capacity growing strong

Thanks to @InternationalCentreHydropower & @HansBredesen for partnership! 🙏

#EnergyModeling #PowerSystems #OpenSource #Africa

@brunopostle I did a bit research. #Revit has an extension for #energymodeling and options for #gbXML export through #Dynamo. #Rhino has #Honeybee and #Ladybug as energy extensions to #Grasshopper. #BIMServer can extract geometry from #IFC and serialise it as gbXML. #IDA-ICE imports IFC directly. What about #TopologicSverchok, can it extract geometry and export it as gbXML?
@brunopostle I think the conversion tool could be improved and packaged, and I am motivated to contribute to this nonetheless, if only to learn more of #IFC and #gbXML . It should be relevant, according to the thesis by MGVisschers. Maybe he has a good overview on the need for such a tool today, if he could be reached. Anybody activly working with #energymodeling should know. My guess is that proprietary #BIM tools has #gbXML export. Info could be inquired at #osarch .