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Project Structure and Credits

The PyPSA-Earth model is maintained by the members of the PyPSA meets Earth initiative. We implemented in the initiative a project structure to enhance collaboration and give people responsibilities. Therefore, the structure is not here to dictate, it is rather a structure that let people organize and think from different angles about the project.

We all have the same goal. We want to create a long-term maintained, supported and steadily improving energy system model that is useful for industry and research. Every person helping towards achieving this goal is listed in the credits.

Project Structure

PyPSA-meets-Earth initiative is build upon the code base which can be accessed from the initiative repository on GitHub. A list below aims to give a quick overview:

  • PyPSA Earth is a model for power or sector-coupled system modeling for any country of the world
  • PyPSA Distribution is an optimization model for micro-grids and distribution grids with an automated extraction of the inputs needed to build grid topology and electricity load profiles
  • Earth OSM provides a toolset to download, pre-process and export energy-relevant infrastructure data from OpenStreetMap (OSM)
  • PyPSA Earth Status enables a reproducible workflow to validate PyPSA networks against real-world energy system data

The list is by no means exhaustive and is growing continuously. Feel free to explore more looking into the repositories available in PyPSA meets Earth organization and don't forget to give us a star ;). The contributions are very welcome to enhance the description of the available projects!

Team

  • Steering Committee: Davide Fioriti, Hazem Abdel-Khalek, Ekaterina Fedotova, Leon Schumm
  • Founder of the Initiative and Advisor: Maximilian Parzen
  • PyPSA-Earth Maintainers: Emmanuel Bolarinwa, Yerbol Akhmetov, Eddy Jalbout
  • PyPSA-Earth Lab Maintainers: Daniele Lerede, Arizeo Salac
  • Outreach Maintainer: Charlotte Heikendorf
  • Maintainer Earth-OSM: Matin Mahmood
  • PyPSA-Earth Distribution: Margherita Capitani
  • Regional Coordinators: Virio Andreyana, Tosin George, Emre Yorat

Credits

PyPSA-meets-Earth is an independent research and software development initiative which is developing thanks to the efforts of code and non-code contributors and users of our models. Every discussion comment, bug report and typo fixed count and are precious contributions into the community knowledge base.

The lists below is an attempt to give the credits to the contributors, though it's maintained manually, and may be outdated and incomplete. Feel free to reach out if you see the need for changes! A more complete version of the contributors list is available in our code repositories, e.g. pypsa earth, pypsa kz data, pypsa distribution or earth osm. Points of contacts are listed on the site PyPSA meets Earth team page.

Contributors Team

  • Davide Fioriti (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Yerbol Akhmetov (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Margherita Capitani (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Eddy Jalbout (Fraunhofer Institution for Energy Infrastructure and Geotechnics IEG, Germany)
  • Hazem Abdel-Khalek (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Max Parzen (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Emre Yorat (Adana Science and Technology University)
  • Matin Mahmood (http://matin.ai/)
  • Virio Andreyana (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Daniele Lerede (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Alexander Meisinger (Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Germany)
  • Emmanuel Bolarinwa (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Eric Nitschke (Technische Universität Hamburg, Germany)
  • Lukas Trippe (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
  • Leon Schumm (Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Germany)
  • Sermisha Narayana (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Denise Giubilato (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Carlos Fernandez (ULiege)
  • Tosin George (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Anton Achhammer (Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Germany)
  • Arizeo Salac (University of Pisa, Italy)
  • Lukas Jansen (Fraunhofer Institution for Energy Infrastructure and Geotechnics IEG, Germany)
  • Johannes Hampp (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Fabian Neumann (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
  • Ekaterina Fedotova (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Muhammad Ilyas
  • Lukas Franken (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  • Jess Ryan
  • Kevin Steijn (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Stephen Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
  • Albert Solà Vilalta (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
  • Martha Frysztacki (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Anas Algarei (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  • Siddharth Krishna (Open Energy Transition, Germany)
  • Dahunsi Okekunle (Energy Market and Regulatory Consultants aka. EMRC, Nigeria)
  • Nse-Abasi Ayara (University of Abuja, Nigeria)
  • Jarrad Wright (Council for Scientific Research and Industry CSIR, South Africa)
  • Ayman Khirbash (École Polytechnique, France)
  • Koen van Greevenbroek (University of Tromso, Norway)
  • Caputo Cesare (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
  • Desen Kirli (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  • Olukunle Owolabi (Tufts University, United States)

Outreach Team

  • Hazem Abdel-Khalek (OET)
  • Tosin George (OET)
  • Charlotte Heikendorf (OET)
  • Arizeo Salac (University of Pisa)
  • Margherita Capitani (University of Pisa)
  • Andreas Hernandez Denyer (OET)

Advisor Team

  • Nafiu Tijjani (Assistant Chief Scientific Officer in the Renewable Energy Department of Energy Commission of Nigeria)
  • Aminu Haruna Isa (Energy Planning and Analysis Dep't at the Energy Commission of Nigeria)
  • Dahunsi Okekunle (Energy Market and Regulatory Consultants EMRC, Nigeria)
  • Bruno Merven (Energy system modeller for IRENA, SEA and University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  • Jarrad Wright (Principal Researcher at Council for Scientific Research and Industry CSIR, South Africa)
  • Chandima Gomes (Professor at University of Witwatersrand and Chair of ESKOM Power Plant Engineering Institute, South Africa)
  • Dave Dorrell (Distinguished Professor at University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
  • Matija Pavicevic (Creator of Dispa-Set Africa, KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Sylvain Quoilin (Professor and creator of Dispa-Set Africa, KU Leuven, Belgium)
  • Fabian Neumann (PyPSA-Eur maintainer at TU Berlin, Germany)
  • Tom Brown (PyPSA creator, Professor and Head of Energy System Analysis Department at the TU Berlin, Germany)
  • Aristides Kiprakis (Professor at University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
  • Yusuf Kuvvetli (Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Industrial Engineering Department at Cukurova University, Turkey)
  • İclal Çetin Taş (Assistant Professor of Software Engineering Department at OSTİM Technical University, Turkey)