Historical and planned openmod workshops

The Open Energy Modelling Initiative participants take turns to host regular academic workshops. This posting provides a complete list.

Workshops under discussion

Workshops under discussion that are not yet confirmed by the community. See tag proposed-openmod-workshops.

Ref Date Host Location Comment

Upcoming workshops

These workshops are confirmed. See tag upcoming-openmod-workshops.

Ref Date Host Location Comment
20 14−15 May 2026 OET and Energy Modelling Hub Montréal, Canada
21 26 June 2026 OET and University of Cape Town Cape Town, South Africa
22 28−29 Sept 2026 University of Freiburg Freiburg, Germany

Previous workshops

Wikipedia has a more detailed table.

Ref Date Host Location Comment
01 18−19 Sept 2014 DIW Berlin Berlin, Germany establishment meeting with 28 participants
02 13−14 Apr 2015 MCC Berlin Berlin, Germany
03 10−11 Sept 2015 Imperial College London (ICL) London, United Kingdom in association with Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
04 28−29 Apr 2016 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm,Sweden
05 27−28 Oct 2016 Department of Energy, Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy archived 12 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine
06 20−21 Apr 2017 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Frankfurt, Germany
07 12−13 Oct 2017 Technical University of Munich (TUM) Munich, Germany
08 6−8 June 2018 Climate Policy Group, ETH Zurich Zürich, Switzerland 63 attendees
09 22−24 May 2019 Department of Engineering, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
10 18−19 Sept 2019 National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Golden, Colorado, USA
11 15−17 Jan 2020 Hertie School Berlin, Germany circa 190 attendees
12 March thru May 2020 2020 mini‑workshop series online during COVID-19 pandemic, 3 events for 2020
13 4 Dec 2020 Climate forecasting for energy workshop (specialist meeting) online joint organization with S2S4E project
14 5 May 2021 2021 mini‑workshop online during COVID-19 pandemic
15 17 Feb 2022 2022 mini‑workshop online during COVID-19 pandemic
16 22−24 Mar 2023 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Laxenburg, Vienna, Austria limited to 65 attendees
17 13−14 Nov 2023 OET and Stanford University Campus San Francisco Bay Area, USA limited to 80 attendees
18 26−28 Mar 2024 CRESYM and OTE Grenoble, France limited to 100 attendees
19 25−26 Mar 2025 KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden 60 attendees

Hosts

Selected hosts with addition information.

Host Expansion Country URL Comment
CRESYM Collaborative Research for Energy SYstem Modelling France link
DIW Berlin German Institute for Economic Research Germany link
Hertie School The University of Governance in Berlin Germany link
MCC Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change Germany link
OET Open Energy Transition Germany link operate worldwide
OTE Energy Transition Observatory France link