Toddle Turbine – v0.2.0

Let us start the new year with a new major release.

Unlike the release title this version will be more stable due to an improved testing environment.

With more than 700 commits, 100 issues and pull requests from 14 contributors this has been the release with the highest contribution of the oemof community. We improved the structure and the documentation to make it even easier to contribute in the future. Join our community and become a contributor of the next release. Continue reading “Toddle Turbine – v0.2.0”

New developers inspired by the 7th oemof developer meeting

Our 7th oemof developer and organisation meeting took place at the Center for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Europa-Universität Flensburg from 4th to 6th December. We were very happy to welcome a lot of new people to the community! Thereby it became the biggest oemof developer meeting ever.

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7th developer and organisation meeting – 4-6 December in Flensburg

After the oemof User Meeting in May 2017 at RLI in Berlin the focus of the upcoming meeting lies on the organisation of collaborative programming as well as the more in-depth development and expansion of oemof functions and the release of v0.2.0. Continue reading “7th developer and organisation meeting – 4-6 December in Flensburg”

New project oemof_heat has started

At October 19th 2017, the research project oemof_heat started with a kick-off workshop in the facilities of the Reiner Lemoine Institute. The project’s goal is to investigate the potential of coupling electricity and heat sector. Therefore, the open energy modelling framework (oemof) will be expanded, based on existing work on heat system modelling within oemof, and corresponding scenarios will be developed. In the next three years we focus on district heating systems, heat storage and process heat applications.

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Open energy modelling in Central Asia

Within a scientific exchange between the Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (ZNES) in Flensburg, Germany, and National Laboratory Astana at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, oemof and the relevance of open modelling and data has been highlighted on a scientific cross-border forum between Kazakhstan and Russia. The forum was organized by Young Researchers Association at First President Foundation of Republic Kazakhstan and held over several days in Astana and Burabay.

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Preliminary program of the oemof user meeting 2017

We are happy to announce the program of the first oemof user meeting. The meeting will include a broad range of hands on presentations showing the variability and possible applications of oemof and will leave plenty of room to discuss and get in contact with other users and developers. Continue reading “Preliminary program of the oemof user meeting 2017”