Model Factsheet

General Information

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
Support / Community / Forum
Framework
Link to User Documentation	-
Link to Developer/Code Documentation	-
Documentation quality	expandable
Source of funding	-
Number of developers	-
Number of users	-

Openness

Open Source
Planned to open up in the future
Costs	-

Software

Modelling software	Delphi; Pascal
Internal data processing software
External optimizer
Additional software
GUI

Coverage

Modeled energy sectors (final energy)	electricity, heat
Modeled demand sectors	-
Modeled technologies: components for power generation or conversion	Renewables - Conventional -
Modeled technologies: components for transfer, infrastructure or grid	Electricity - Gas - Heat -
Properties electrical grid	-
Modeled technologies: components for storage	battery, heat, gas
User behaviour and demand side management
Changes in efficiency
Market models	-
Geographical coverage
Geographic (spatial) resolution	national states, municipalities, Town, group of countries
Time resolution	hour
Comment on geographic (spatial) resolution
Observation period	1 year
Additional dimensions (sector)	-

Mathematical Properties

Model class (optimisation)	-
Model class (simulation)	-
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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	-

Model Integration

Interfaces
Model file format	.txt
Input data file format	.txt
Output data file format	.xls
Integration with other models
Integration of other models

References

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Electricity REEEM