Energy Modelling Platform for Europe (EMP-E) kick off meeting in Brussels

On May 17th and 18th, the start-up meeting of the Energy Modelling Platform for Europe (EMP-E) took place at the headquarters of European Commission's DG Research and Innovation. The workshop, organised by the REEEM project  in collaboration with DG Research and Innovation, brought together more than 80 participants from the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation, DG JRC, DG Energy and DG Clima) as well as from a large number of European modelling groups long involved in energy modelling at a city to Union scale. The objective of the meeting was to provide a peer-reviewed digest of model and policy insights for European energy future projects. It also aims to initiate a long-term forum for exchanging research and practice of energy system modelling in Europe and to promote the sharing of data and resources in the area. A Pan-EUenergy system model based on OSeMOSYS, under construction and soon to be released, was presented at the meeting, including every individual country in the EU28+2 area. The model will capture the essence of the interactions of the energy system with the environment, society and economy of EU28+2. Run on a newly released fast-running version of OSeMOSYS and linked to an open-source database and a 'Serious Game' interface built in REEEM, it will provide a straightforward, yet detailed, model to engage students, policy makers and the society into the core aspects of energy planning. KTH-dESA had an active participation with Director ,  and  joining on behalf of REEEM while Ioannis Pappis represented SIM4NEXUS and the OSeMOSYS model of Greece developed under its framework.