List of talks
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Denton Gentry @DGentry “On the Evolution of Model Implementations”. Project Drawdown began developing climate solution models in 2014, using Microsoft Excel. The models have grown into a collection of about 100 Excel files, many with copies of the underlying model, and the level of toil just keeping the model updated has become large. This talk will focus on the process employed to evolve the model into Python. The Python models are available on Github. Slides for this talk. Local copy openmod talk 5.13.2020.pdf (309.2 KB).
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Christian Hofmann @christian.hofmann “The Open Energy Ontology (OEO)”. The Open Energy Ontology (OEO) is a domain ontology of the energy-system modelling context. It is developed as part of the Open Energy Family. The OEO is published on github as open source software. In the talk I will briefly introduce the ontology, the benefits that we hope it’s going to provide and invite everybody to join in on the development. The current state of the ontology can be observed here on GitHub. Download slides (1.5 MB) for this talk.
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Juan José Ortega @OrtegaJuanJose “Distributed slack bus model formulation for the HELM”. Formulation and implementation of this model, and a logic approach to formulate other models. Check out the GitHub repository of the implementation. Slides for this talk. Local copy Distributed slack bus model formulation for HELM.pdf (329.4 KB).
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Adam Pluta @nethead “Remote Sensing of Energy Infrastructure”. The DLR is currently assembling an interest group for upcoming project ideas. This talk will give an overview about our current projects around the idea of using remote sensing data (e.g. from satellites) for automatic identification of gas pipelines, wind generators and pv facilities.
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Sriram Sankaranarayanan @ssriram1992 “EPEC Solve: An open-source framework for bilevel Nash games”. The open source software can find pure and mixed-strategy Nash equilibria for a subfamily of equilibrium programs with equilibrium constraints (EPECs), where each upper-level player has a personal set of lower-level players. A template model is also provided, which can be easily modified to build new models by the user. In addition, the tool also enables automatic generation of KKT conditions etc. for regular Nash games, thus enabling the user to only provide each player’s optimization problem, rather than manually deriving the KKT conditions. We also provide utilities like identifying the best response for players, given other players’ decisions which could be of independent interest. The website and the code are available here and here. The algorithm we use to solve the EPECs is described formally here and is explained here.
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Nastaran Arianpoo @Nastaran “Modelling the ‘nexus’? Evaluating modelling approaches and mapping the gaps”. There are a number of approaches to modelling the ‘nexus’ which consider interactions between aspects of food, water, and/or environmental impacts of the energy system. Our current project builds a framework for considering the nexus within the energy system modelling domain. Our presentation will describe our current concept of the nexus and our evaluation of combined modelling approaches that may be able to enhance the modelling of the nexus.
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Oleg Lugovoy @olugovoy “Open Decarbonization update – pilot project”. Call for participation.
Open Decarbonization is a developing initiative to facilitate dissemination and application of open energy models, and produce comparable low-carbon scenarios for multiple countries/regions in a short term. It aims to add the “scenarios” step to already open models and open data, improve the models’ accessibility and leverage their impact. The Initiative can be seen as a set of projects around particular open models with unified scenarios, which will be applied to multiple countries or regions. The first (pilot) project revaluation (renewable energy evaluation) will be based on energyRt energy modeling package for R and focus on assessing the potential of intermittent renewable energy sources in electric power systems based on 40-years of NASA’s MERRA-2 data.
Withdrawn talks
Unfortunately I’ve had to withdraw my talk but will resubmit it for the next mini‑workshop:
[was] 5. Robbie Morrison @robbie.morrison “Open licensing in six or so diagrams”. For those who prefer graphic novels to legal texts, this lighting talk provides some guidance on the selection of open licenses.