Create a better planet.

An open source energy system model initiative for our Earth

OUR MISSION

To accelerate and cost-optimize the world’s transition to sustainable, accessible and reliable energy with open-source planning tools and open data.

OUR VISION

To create the most compelling energy planning initiative of the 21st century by driving the world’s transition to open-source and open-data.

OUR VALUES

Freedom and openess are our core values to make developments faster and decision-making transparent and better!

We work on open energy planning solutions. Get involved!

The PyPSA meets Earth initiative is a community that promotes open modelling, open data, open source solver support and open communities for energy system planning. It is part of the PyPSA ecosystem, which also includes the framework, PyPSA, and tools with data, PyPSA-Eur, PyPSA-Earth, and PyPSA-distribution. We welcome new contributors, and new collaboration outside of the PyPSA space.

PyPSA-Earth

Open-source Global high-resolution sector-coupled model of energy systems of any country, region and continent at the transmission level.
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PyPSA-Distribution

Repository aimed at the optimization of sector-coupled distribution systems with high spatial and temporal resolution.
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Earth-OSM

Open-source tool to extract power infrastructure data from OpenStreetMap.
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What we do

Empower Earth talents

We aim to create opportunities for talents across Earth. This should enable independency in energy planning without foreign help. While being part of a Earth developer and user community, they all have one goal. Improving decision-making for fast and sustainable energy system planning.

Create trusted and scalable open source tools for energy system planning

Our tool developments focus on scalable methodologies that can be applied around the world. This means feature improvements, bug fixes, or documentations are shared across the planet. Working together on the tools accelarate the development and use while building trust.

Establish Earth open source network

As an open source project stand not only on the shoulders of giants, but also on the shoulders of the community. To continue building up a strong user, developer and maintainer network is essential for us.

Initiate a stable open source support organization

Even open source projects need a stable organization to build trust and credibility. This is necessary to collect and allocate funds to brilliant contributers, making the tool most useful.

Who we are

Steering Committee

A full list of PyPSA users can be found in the PyPSA documentation.

Open Community

Check out our Discord server

The heart of the community life is happening on Discord (which we describe as better Slack alternative). We hold there all our meetings, coffee breaks and exchanges. Discord provides voice channels, text channels, and event stages. This also allows you to meet up or host your own events if desired.

Check out our Github Repository

You can find our developments in the GitHub repository, where you can join our community, create issues, share ideas and discuss with us. All of our developments are open source and GPL3 or MIT licensed, meaning they must stay open. Even the website you are looking at is open source. Feel free to use it and suggest improvements.

Join the mailing list

Join our mailing list to get news about upcoming events and updates about regular meetings.

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