January 6, 2022
Nowadays, many of our most important apps and programs are open source or contain open-source components. In recent years, open-source code has also come into the energy space, where most tools and models had previously been in-house operations (albeit with some notable exceptions). A rather long list of current open-source energy-related models can be found at https://wiki.openmod-initiative.org/wiki/Open_Models. This indicates that open-source development has really broken through, even though there are still many models with research origins inside a walled garden. However, having a large number of separate models is also a challenge. It becomes difficult to identify good models, the effort spent becomes too divided, and many of the models never…
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