2026.04 TESPy community meeting

Last week the second TESPy Community Meeting, held in Braunschweig, was a resounding success, offering developers and users an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas in person, discuss new concepts, and collaborate on the further development of TESPy.

The highlight of the meeting was the hackathons, during which participants worked intensively on various topics:

  • Introductory tutorials for TESPy
  • Best practices for initial values in automated simulations
  • Creation of a ModelTemplate class, which can serve as a powerful starting point for user models
  • First steps in implementing a new ejector component

A new TESPy release has already been published based on the results of the hackathons. This release already includes the new ModelTemplate class and also made the OptimizationProblem class compatible with it. Further details about the release can be found in the official release notes:
https://tespy.readthedocs.io/en/main/whats_new.html#whats-new-label

A big thank you goes to Hannes Schneider from Technical University of Braunschweig for the excellent organization and for hosting the meeting. We would also like to thank all participants for the open atmosphere, their enthusiastic participation in the hackathon, and the many engaging discussions.

Join the upcoming oemof meetings

In just a bit more than a month the next oemof user meeting takes place in Nordhausen parallel to the RET.Con conference. From February 11 to 13 you can join us. You will have the chance to exchange with other oemof users and developers, learn something new in the tutorials and also connect with the participants of the RET.Con. Also, the general assembly of the oemof association will be held at the event. For registration and agenda details check out the wiki page on github: https://github.com/oemof/oemof/wiki/Meeting-2026.02

Two months later the second TESPy meeting will be hosted at the TU Braunschweig from April 13 to 15. We plan some tutorials and many hackathons to work on a couple of open issues and potential new features. Get all the information here: https://github.com/oemof/oemof/wiki/Meeting-2026.04%3A-tespy-user-meeting