Modelblocks

Contributors

Modelblocks grew out of the principle of modularising the building blocks of energy system models, proposed in Pfenninger (2024). It was initiated in the sustainable energy systems research group at TU Delft by Ivan Ruiz Manuel, Jann Launer, and Stefan Pfenninger-Lee. The architecture based on snakemake modules was designed by Ivan Ruiz Manuel, while Jann Launer contributed core modules and tooling.

Modelblocks is built by many people and maintained by core admins (see the “Get Involved” page). The list below is automatically aggregated from the all-contributors data of each module and core repository.

Acknowledgements

Some of the initial modules in Modelblocks started as a modular next-generation evolution of the Euro-Calliope energy system model, which was originally designed and implemented in Tröndle et al. (2020) and expanded into a fully sector-coupled model in Pickering et al. (2022).

The infrastructure relies heavily on snakemake, so this project would not be possible without the work of all snakemake contributors.