OpenISP

Source: https://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au:443/our-research/openisp Parent: https://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au:443/

An accessible and transparent electricity system model based on the Australian Energy Market Operator’s ‘Integrated System Plan’.

Overview

This project aims to provide open and accessible energy modelling tools that enable high-quality research and analysis of potential energy transition pathways for Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM).

A core objective is to produce an open-source capacity expansion modelling tool based on the methodology and assumptions used by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to produce their Integrated System Plan. To achieve this, the project:

• Provides tools to access and readily use AEMO’s inputs and assumptions.
• Leverages an existing open-source electricity modelling framework (PyPSA) to model operation and cost-optimal generation and transmission expansion in the NEM using AEMO’s or user-specified inputs and assumptions.

Two other key objectives of the project are:

• Improving the accessibility of energy system modelling to researchers and energy sector stakeholders through extensive documentation and supporting material.
• Making modelling reproducible through metadata that tracks inputs, assumptions and the model version.

Funding

The OpenISP project is supported by a philanthropic grant from Boundless Earth.

Research status

Tools

The OpenISP repositories can be found on GitHub.

ISP Workbook Parser

A Python package for reading data from the Inputs, Assumptions and Scenarios Report (IASR) Microsoft Excel workbook published by the Australian Energy Market Operator for use in their Integrated System Plan modelling.

GitHub

ISP Trace Parser

A Python package for reformatting and accessing demand, solar, and wind time series data used by the Australian Energy Market Operator in their Integrated System Plan modelling study.

GitHub

ISPyPSA

An open-source capacity expansion model based on the methodology and datasets used by the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) in their Integrated System Plan (ISP)  - [Work in Progress]

GitHub

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