Climate Interactive Change Solutions Simulator

“En-ROADS is a transparent, freely-available policy simulation model that gives everyone the chance to design their own scenarios to limit future global warming.  You can try your own experiments and assumptions, and get immediate feedback on the likely impacts. The simulation, developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, and MIT Sloan, runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is available online, offers an intuitive interface, has been carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate and energy models.”

Guidehouse Advanced Distribution Planning

“A grid modernisation solution for electric utility planners … ADP provides utility planners with a set of tools and processes to effectively manage the increasingly complex landscape of alternatives and strategies and transform their way of supporting utility organizations.”

Power Systems Optimization Tutorial Notebooks

Open source collection of tutorial iJulia notebooks which teach the basics of power systems optimization, including canonical models such as economic dispatch, unit commitment, optimal power flow, and capacity expansion. Developed for courses taught at Princeton and University of California San Diego, these materials are free and available for use independently or for incorporation into other course materials. Example models use the Julia scientific programming language and JuMP optimization package, a flexible suite of tools that are fast becoming state of the art in the field.

model.energy

“This tool calculates the cost of meeting a constant electricity demand from a combination of wind power, solar power and storage for different regions of the world”

Energetic: The Board Game

“This gives everyone the chance to see the scope of change and cooperation needed to transform the city’s energy demand and supply in time to meet goals for the Paris Agreement. Our objective is to give players a quick grounding in what solving climate change actually means, in a physical and social sense”

UT Energy Futures Dashboard

“A multi-year, interdisciplinary study and interactive tool to better understand the costs and impacts associated with investment in the nation’s aging energy infrastructure. This interactive product was developed by the Energy Institute to illustrate future pathways of energy infrastructure by leveraging insights from research and data from multiple federal agencies. The dashboard allows users to create their own scenarios for one of 13 U.S. regions for the year 2050.”

Energy Policy Simulator

A tool that models energy policy across all sectors for countries and US states

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Keep Cool Board Game

“Provides a playful access to the content and conflict lines of climate policy. They set thought-provoking impulses and enable a change of perspectives by immersion of the players in the game roles.”

The Minigrid Game.

“The Minigrid Game is a role-playing game built around a representation of a minigrid system, intended to be used as an educational and collaborative planning tool in designing a community-sized minigrid system. The game is designed to be used within a process that explores minigrid planning and operational decisions.”

Toolbox Dialogue Initiative (TDI)

“The Toolbox Dialogue Initiative is committed to the evidence-based facilitation of collaborative, cross-disciplinary research and practice, as well as to theoretical reflection on these complex modes of knowledge-focused collaboration. As an ongoing research concern, we regularly publish both empirical and theoretical work, including these recent pieces”

Let’s Bid | An Electricity Market Game

A power point based game in which students are different power plants. The teams compete to sell the most electricity to the utility company over a 24 hour time period. The students can gain a deeper understanding of electricity markets, supply and demand, fuel costs, and how market structure influences the shift to renewables.