Abstract
Energy modelling is critical for addressing challenges such as integrating variable renewable energy and addressing climate impacts. This paper describes the updated code management structure and code updates, the revised community forum and the outreach activities that have built a vibrant community of practice around OSeMOSYS. The code management structure has allowed code improvements to be incorporated into the model, the community forum provides users with a place to ask and answer questions, and the outreach activities connect members of the community. Overall, these three pillars show how a community of practice can be built around an open source tool and provides an example for other developers and users of open source software wanting to build a community of practice.
Highlights
The importance of long-term energy planning and system modelling is receiving growing interest in the literature due to the increasing complexity of systems with variable renewable energy, as well as the increased focus on sustainable development
Of the open models they assessed, four models had both high sectoral and geographic coverage (OSeMOSYS, GCAM, renpassG!S and REMIND). These four models have very different foci: GCAM is a partial equilibrium model to evaluate the impact of global policies on climate impacts [4,5], renpassG!S is a simulation model for evaluating the operational performance of a given system configuration [6], REMIND is an integrated energy-economy-climate model [7,8] while OSeMOSYS is a long term energy planning model [9,10]
GCAM is maintained in the United States by the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), a partnership between academia and the US Pacific
Summary
The importance of long-term energy planning and system modelling is receiving growing interest in the literature due to the increasing complexity of systems with variable renewable energy, as well as the increased focus on sustainable development. Of the open models they assessed, four models had both high sectoral and geographic coverage (OSeMOSYS, GCAM, renpassG!S and REMIND) These four models have very different foci: GCAM is a partial equilibrium model to evaluate the impact of global policies on climate impacts [4,5], renpassG!S is a simulation model for evaluating the operational performance of a given system configuration [6], REMIND is an integrated energy-economy-climate model [7,8] while OSeMOSYS is a long term energy planning model [9,10]. OSe MOSYS has developed a vibrant and active community of researchers and developers that support a well respected and extensively used modelling tool and this online community is an example for other open source models to follow
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