Open Source Energy System Modeling @ TU Wien

Lecture by Daniel Huppmann held in the summer semester since 2019. Link to the lecture page on TISS.

Scope

All material on this page is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This lecture introduces key concepts of open-source modelling to better understand the energy system and assessing the transition to renewable sources in the context of climate change mitigation and sustainable development.

We discuss the role of quantitative, model-based pathways in international and national climate mitigation policy, in particular the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the students will learn how to develop scenarios of the energy transition using open-source tools and readily available data.

Summer semester 2023 (370.062)

Lecture 1:

Principles of open, collaborative scientific programming for energy modelling

pdf (2.7MB) | pptx (4.5MB)

Lecture 2:

A hands-on example of working with git

pdf (0.9MB) | pptx (1.6MB)

The repository created as part of the hands-on exercise is available at https://github.com/danielhuppmann/lecture-spring-2023.

Lecture 3:

Integrated assessment of climate change

and sustainable development | pdf (6.4MB)

pptx (10.7MB)

Lecture 4:

Developing your own energy system scenarios using the MESSAGEix framework

pdf (4.7MB) | pptx (6.2MB)

Lecture 5:

What’s next?

pdf (3.9MB) | pptx (8.9MB)

Summer semester 2021 (370.062)

Lecture 1:

Principles of open, collaborative scientific programming for energy modelling

pdf (5.9MB) | pptx (4.2MB) | recordings of this lecture (2020)

Lecture 2:

A hands-on example of working with git

pdf (1.0MB) | pptx (1.6MB) | recordings of this lecture (2020)

The repository created as part of the hands-on exercise is available at https://github.com/danielhuppmann/lecture_spring_2021.

Lecture 3:

Integrated assessment of climate change

and sustainable development | pdf (5.1MB)

pptx (6.2MB)

Lecture 4:

Developing your own energy system scenarios using the MESSAGEix framework

pdf (5.6MB) | pptx (6.0MB)

Lecture 5:

Developing your own energy system scenarios using the MESSAGEix framework

pdf (1.5MB) | pptx (6.8MB)

Overview of recording sub-pages

• Recording of lecture 1
  • Part 0 - Introduction
  • Part 1 - Open-source licenses
  • Part 2 - The FAIR principles
  • Part 3 - Misconceptions about open(-source) research
  • Part 4 - Working with git
• Recording of lecture 2
  • Part 1 - Setting up a git repository from scratch
  • Part 2 - Practical considerations

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Matthew Gidden (@gidden) and Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (@khaeru) for providing valuable input and sharing their own teaching material.