OSeMOSYS Global, an open-source, open data global electricity system model generator

Trevor Barnes; Abhishek Shivakumar; Maarten Brinkerink; Taco Niet

doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01737-0

OSeMOSYS Global, an open-source, open data global electricity system model generator

Sci Data. 2022 Oct 14;9(1):623. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01737-0.

Authors

Trevor Barnes¹, Abhishek Shivakumar^{2

3}, Maarten Brinkerink^{4

5

6}, Taco Niet⁷

Affiliations

¹ Sustainable Energy Engineering, Simon Fraser University, 10285 University Dr, Surrey, BC, V3T 0N1, Canada. trevor_barnes@sfu.ca.
² Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, 16-18 Prince's Gardens, London, SW7 1NE, United Kingdom.
³ STEER Centre, Department of Geography and Environment, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom.
⁴ MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, 6 Lee Rd, Cork, T23 XE10, Ireland.
⁵ School of Engineering, University College Cork, College Road, Cork, P43 C573, Ireland.
⁶ Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 15 Thayer Dr, Hanover, NH, 03755, USA.
⁷ Sustainable Energy Engineering, Simon Fraser University, 10285 University Dr, Surrey, BC, V3T 0N1, Canada.

Abstract

This paper describes OSeMOSYS Global, an open-source, open-data model generator for creating global electricity system models for an active global modelling community. This version of the model generator is freely available and can be used to create interconnected electricity system models for both the entire globe and for any geographically diverse subset of the globe. Compared to other existing global models, OSeMOSYS Global allows for full user flexibility in determining the time slice structure and geographic scope of the model and datasets, and is built using the widely used fully open-source OSeMOSYS energy system model. This paper describes the data sources, structure and use of OSeMOSYS Global, and provides illustrative workflow results.