Model Factsheets
| Name | EnergyPLAN |
| Acronym | EnergyPLAN |
| Methodical Focus | None |
| Institution(s) | Aalborg University |
| Author(s) (institution, working field, active time period) | |
| Current contact person | Aira Hast |
| Contact (e-mail) | aira.hast@aalto.fi |
| Website | http://www.energyplan.eu/ |
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| Primary Purpose | Assists the design of national or regional energy planning strategies on the basis of technical and economic analyses of the consequences of implementing different energy systems and investments |
| Primary Outputs | Energy balances and resulting annual productions, fuel consumption, import/export of electricity, and total costs including income from the exchange of electricity |
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| Framework | |
| Link to User Documentation | - |
| Link to Developer/Code Documentation | - |
| Documentation quality | expandable |
| Source of funding | - |
| Number of developers | - |
| Number of users | - |
| Open Source | |
| Planned to open up in the future | |
| Costs | - |
| Modelling software | Delphi; Pascal |
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| GUI |
| Modeled energy sectors (final energy) |
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| Modeled demand sectors |
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| Modeled technologies: components for power generation or conversion |
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| Modeled technologies: components for transfer, infrastructure or grid |
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| Properties electrical grid |
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| Modeled technologies: components for storage |
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| Time resolution | hour | ||||||
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| Observation period | 1 year | ||||||
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| Model class (optimisation) | - |
| Model class (simulation) | - |
| Other | |
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| Mathematical objective | - |
| Approach to uncertainty | - |
| Suited for many scenarios / monte-carlo | |
| typical computation time | less than a minute |
| Typical computation hardware | RAM, CPU |
| Technical data anchored in the model | - |
| Interfaces | |
| Model file format | .txt |
| Input data file format | .txt |
| Output data file format | .xls |
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| Citation reference | - |
| Citation DOI | - |
| Reference Studies/Models | - |
| Example research questions | - |
| Model usage | - |
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| Model specific properties | - |