Openmod workshop Canada 2026

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Openmod Workshop Canada 2026

May 14-15 • Montréal, Canada

Openmod comes to Canada.

Building on the discussion in the openmod forum about the next workshops in 2026, Open Energy Transition together with the Energy Modelling Hub are pleased to announce Openmod Workshop Canada 2026, to be hosted in Montréal, Canada, in May 2026.

Open-source energy system modelling may seem new to some. Yet it is already shaping regulatory processes and system planning worldwide. Openmod has grown into one of the most active grassroots communities in energy planning, bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners who openly exchange ideas and code, share data and know-how, and collaborate to address key challenges in the energy transition. Learn more about openmod by reading the manifesto.

Building on the discussion in the openmod forum about the next workshops in 2026, Open Energy Transition together with the Energy Modelling Hub in Canada would like to organize an :tada: openmod Workshop in Montréal in May 2026 :tada:, and we would welcome feedback from the community.

Following the success of our previous co-hosted event “Openmod meets USA 2023” alognside Stanford University, the Canada edition will build on the current open source momentum and its series of openmod workshops worldwide, including recent events in Stockholm(2025) and Grenoble(2024). The workshop welcomes seasoned energy professionals and anyone curious about open-source energy modelling to exchange ideas, connect with a vibrant international community, and celebrate how open modelling is emerging as a powerful and future-ready standard for energy planning.

Event details

:white_check_mark: Register here: :tada: Event Registration :tada:

Call for contributions

:high_voltage: Lightning Talks: present a project, workflow, or tool development in a concise format

:desktop_computer: Technical demonstrations: live code walkthroughs and implementation case studies

:thought_balloon: Breakout Sessions: collaborate with experts in interactive sessions on diverse energy topics

:handshake: Networking: engage with practitioners, developers, regulators, and system operators

:heart_exclamation:If you are interested in contributing, please indicate your preferred format and topic in the staging area. The organising team will curate the final programme.

All contributors are expected to attend in person. For general participants, in-person attendance is strongly encouraged to enable deeper technical exchange and collaboration.
Submission deadline: March 31st, 2026

:confetti_ball:We look forward to welcoming the Canadian and international open energy modelling community in Montréal :confetti_ball:

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Programme

Friday 14 May 2026

Location: University of CapeTown

Times Span Item
08:45 - 09:00 00:15 ARRIVAL & REGISTRATION
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Staging area 1

This staging area is intended for potential contributors. Please feel free to edit and update the description of your intended in person contribution as your ideas evolve. Some of the entries listed here may still be at an early stage of development. Not all suggestions will necessarily be selected or developed into lightning talks or presentations.

The deadline for submitting your potential contribution is March 31st 2026. After this deadline passes, the organizing group will screen the suggestions and develop the final program.

This is a wikipost that anyone registered with the forum can edit. You are encouraged to add your potential contributions directly here therefore. The order given is chronological downwards.

*Note also that the topics and postings on this forum related to this event will be reorganized as the content builds. So just be aware that some URLs will break going forward.

Lightning talks:

Each lightening talk consists of a 6 minutes presentation followed by 4 minutes of Q&A. Profile your favorite project, tool, data, research findings, etc

When adding your lightening talk contribution, it should look something similiar to the following example post

Example

:white_check_mark: title : Using a global energy system model for a detailed country study
presenter : Martha Frysztacki (Open Energy Transition)
description : This presentation introduces a case study applying PyPSA-Earth for an energy transition study in Kazakhstan. We will show how we tailored a global open energy system model with high spatial and temporal resolution data to the specific country’s requirements. The novel approach avoids the time-consuming creation of models for every country and fosters collaboration, addressing the challenges of the energy transition together. Extended from this paper in Applied Energy .
code repository : GitHub - pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth: PyPSA-Earth: A flexible Python-based open optimisation model to study energy system futures around the world. · GitHub
literature : Based on “PyPSA-Earth. A new global open energy system optimization model demonstrated in Africa”. Applied Energy . 341 : 121096. ISSN 0306-2619. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121096

Proposed contributions (please add your talk below :down_arrow: following the above template/style)

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Dear organizers,

Thank you very much for taking care of this very nice event. Here is my proposed contribution:

title : Coupling energy system models with life-cycle assessment - a case study on Québec energy system
presenter : Matthieu Souttre (CIRAIG, Polytechnique Montréal)
description : Energy System Models (ESMs) optimize transition trajectories but typically overlook environmental trade-offs beyond CO₂ — such as resource use, toxicity, or ecosystem impacts. This presentation introduces mescal, a model-agnostic open-source Python package that bridges ESMs with Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) to embed these broader sustainability metrics directly into energy planning. As a case study, we present its application to the Québec energy system using EnergyScope, illustrating how prospective and regionalized LCA metrics can reshape transition pathways.
code repository : mescal (GitHub - matthieu-str/mescal: Coupling Energy System Models with Life Cycle Assessment · GitHub), EnergyScope (EnergyScope / EnergyScope · GitLab)
documentation : mescal (In a nutshell — mescal), EnergyScope (EnergyScope - Energyscope)
license : mescal - MIT, EnergyScope - Apache 2.0
literature :

  • Souttre et al. 2026. “mescal: a tool for coupling energy system models with life-cycle assessment.” Currently at the edition stage in Journal of Industrial Ecology.
  • Schnidrig et al. 2024. “Between Green Hills and Green Bills: Unveiling the Green Shades of Sustainability and Burden Shifting through Multi-Objective Optimization in Swiss Energy System Planning.” Journal of Environmental Management 370:122537. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122537.