Open Generation, Storage, and Transmission Operation and Expansion Planning Model with RES and ESS (openTEPES)
“Simplicity and Transparency in Energy Systems Planning”
The openTEPES model has been developed at the Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica (IIT) of the Universidad Pontificia Comillas.
The openTEPES model presents a decision support system for defining the integrated generation, storage, and transmission expansion plan (GEP+SEP+TEP) -Capacity Expansion Planning (CEP) or Integrated Resource Planning (IRP)- of a large-scale electric system at a tactical level (i.e., time horizons of 5-20 years), defined as a set of generation, storage, and (electricity, hydrogen, and heat) networks dynamic investment decisions for multiple future years.
It is integrated into the open energy system modelling platform, helping model Europe’s energy system and in the list of energy models published under open source licenses. It is also part of the Africa’s open energy system modelling toolbox, which is a suite of open and linked state-of-the-art open-source energy system models for Africa, and of the African Energy Modelling Network Open-Source Tools.
Scripts are provided to exchange information with Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) using their nomenclature and data formats.
It has been used by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) to analyze the electricity sector in the latest Spanish National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) Update 2023-2030 in September 2024.
Reference: A. Ramos, E. Quispe, S. Lumbreras “OpenTEPES: Open-source Transmission and Generation Expansion Planning” SoftwareX 18: June 2022 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101070
openTEPES: summary presentation (English), présentation (French), and installation guide
Authors: Andrés Ramos, Erik Álvarez, Francisco Labora, Sara Lumbreras. Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica, Alberto Aguilera 23, 28015 Madrid, Spain
Contact: mailto:andres.ramos@comillas.edu
Index¶
- Introduction
- Characteristics
- Electric System Input Data
- Acronyms
- Dictionaries. Sets
- Input files
- Options
- Parameters
- Period
- Scenario
- Stage
- Adequacy reserve margin
- Maximum CO2 emissions
- Minimum RES energy
- Duration
- Electricity demand
- System inertia
- Upward and downward operating reserves
- Upward and downward operating reserve activation (optional files)
- Upward and downward ramp reserves (optional files)
- Generation
- Variable maximum and minimum generation
- Variable maximum and minimum consumption
- Variable fuel cost
- Variable emission cost
- Energy inflows
- Energy outflows
- Variable maximum and minimum storage
- Variable maximum and minimum energy
- Electricity transmission network
- Variable electric transmission line TTC forward and backward (optional files)
- Node location
- Hydropower System Input Data
- Hydrogen System Input Data
- Heat System Input Data
- Flow-Based Market Coupling Method
- Output Results
- Investment/Retirement
- Electricity generation operation
- ESS operation
- Reservoir operation
- Electricity balance
- Electricity network operation
- Hydrogen balance and network operation
- Heat generation operation
- Heat balance and network operation
- Costs and revenues
- Marginal information
- Operational flexibility
- Mathematical Formulation
- Research Projects
- Publications
- Download & Installation
- Questions & Answers (Q&A)
- Contact Us
