PyPSA meets Africa/Earth Introduction
PyPSA meets Earth - Energy system modelling for and with the world
"PyPSA meets Earth is an independent research initiative focusing on the provision of free and open-source energy transition tools and data. While the initiative started in spring 2021 with an initial focus on Africa, the scope recently broadened to cover other continents, evolving the initiative to its current form of PyPSA meets Earth. The vision is to create useful alternatives to inscrutable closed-source energy system models for industry and research with the aim to improve infrastructure investment decisions that are expected to reach roughly 4 trillion $ globally by 2030.
The continuously growing team currently includes members from 16 institutes in 11 countries and 4 continents and about 10+ core contributors (status 02.05.2022). The members cover a broad spectrum of expertise and have various roles in the initiative; the code team is mainly composed of professors, young researchers and PhD candidates building the tools and data generators, the outreach team is filled with experts in the field of consulting and open energy systems modelling focusing on the growth of the community, and the advisor team includes more professors, research leaders, and professionals supporting the work and creating opportunities. Remarkably, until now (02.05.2022) the initiative received no funds and depends on the motivation of its members. People are welcome to join and lead further developments and studies for a global sustainable open-source energy modelling landscape.
The current model and data activities: the provision of a running open-source power system model in Africa (released) the development of a global sector-coupled energy system model (prototype ready, 02.05.2022) the development of new demand data prediction from high to low spatial resolution (in development) the provision of AI algorithm to detect infrastructure assets from satellites (in development)
More information:
Website: https://pypsa-meets-africa.github.io/ (soon PyPSA meets Earth)
YouTube recording: "From Africa to Earth Energy System Modelling Webinar with the PyPSA meets Earth initiative"
PyPSA meets Africa conference paper (2021): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9570911
Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/AnuJBk23FU
