Application Deadline: 21 July 2026, 10:00 AM (CET)
Important Notes:
- We very much welcome tenders from other European countries. Please note that the formal tendering procedure and the contract are in German. Certain technical deliverables and scientific outputs may be prepared in English where explicitly provided for in the tender documents. Therefore, tenderers should be able to work with procurement and contract documents in German as well as to communicate in German within relevant expert committees.
- The project is suitable for supporting scientific qualification works (e.g. dissertations).
- For further information and contact details, please refer to the official tender notice (partly in English): https://www.evergabe-online.de/tenderdetails.html?1&id=863793
Dear Openmod Community,
The German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) Climate and Energy Strategies and Scenarios Team is responsible for the annual reporting of greenhouse gas emission projections in accordance with the EU Governance Regulation and the German Federal Climate Action Act (Section 5a).
We have just launched a call for tenders to further develop an existing electricity market model and provide it as free and open-source software for the German government’s greenhouse gas emission projections, including the associated documentation and user guidance.
We are looking for organisations, teams or consortia with relevant experience in quantitative energy or electricity market modelling, in particular with investment- and dispatch-based optimisation models, model development, data and interface design, and clear scientific and technical documentation.
The project aims to establish a transparent, reproducible and long-term modelling approach for the energy sector as part of the model portfolio used for greenhouse gas emission projections.
The project includes in particular:
- technical specification,
- further development of the model architecture,
- design and implementation of data storage and interfaces,
- calibration, testing and parallel operation,
- reproducibility of the modelling process,
- scientific exchange with the modelling community,
- comprehensive documentation, versioning, free and open-source provision of the model, and user documentation.
Best Regards,
Sebastian