Open letter to IEA and member countries requesting open data

Additional support

The following researchers also offer their support for the IEA open letter after the original letter was forwarded to the International Energy Agency. You can add your name by contacting @robbie.morrison but you need to be involved in energy systems research and a participant in this community.

Name Organization Role
Paul Behrens, PhD Leiden University, The Netherlands Assistant Professor of Environmental Change, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)
Emile Chappin, PhD Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Associate Professor on agent‑based modelling, energy transition, energy policy and Co‑Director of the TPM Energy Transition Lab
Leonard Göke Technical University of Berlin, Germany PhD student investigating energy system and power sector modeling
Fabian Hofmann, PhD Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany Post‑doctoral researcher working on energy system optimization with focus on the European power sector
Alexander Kies, PhD Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany Research Group Leader for energy systems and AI
Max Parzen University of Edinburgh, UK Director of PyPSA meets Africa/Earth and PhD student creating open data, open transition models, and open communities globally
Stefan Pfenninger, PhD Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Assistant professor of energy systems modelling
Luis Ramirez Camargo, PhD Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Senior Researcher specializing in spatiotemporal modelling of renewable energy systems
Laura Pérez-Sánchez ICTA‑UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain PhD student researching the quantification and analysis of the nexus of energy, water, food, and other materials at the country and sector level
Johannes Schmidt, PhD University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria Associate Professor Energy and Resource Economics, Institute for Sustainable Economic Development
Wilfried van Sark, PhD Utrecht University, The Netherlands Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development with a research focus on solar energy, smart grids, renewable electricity, and semiconductors
Wolf‑Peter Schill, PhD Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Germany Deputy Head of Department for Energy, Transport, and Environment
Tim Tröndle, PhD ETH Zurich, Switzerland Postdoctoral researcher on the trade‑offs of decarbonised energy supply
Jan Frederick Unnewehr Freiburg University, Germany Research Associate, Department of Sustainable Systems Engineering, specializing in the control and integration of grids
Marta Victoria, PhD Aarhus University, Denmark Professor researching on large‑scale energy systems with high renewable penetration using international energy data