https://github.com/pypsa/pypsa-eur-sec
PyPSA-Eur-Sec: A Sector-Coupled Open Optimisation Model of the European Energy System
https://github.com/pypsa/pypsa-eur-sec
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PyPSA-Eur-Sec: A Sector-Coupled Open Optimisation Model of the European Energy System
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pypsa/pypsa-eur-sec
- Owner: PyPSA
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-04-17T15:43:45.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-06-25T18:14:35.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-08-20T01:46:36.643Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: energy, energy-model, energy-system, energy-system-model, pypsa
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://pypsa-eur-sec.readthedocs.io/
- Size: 10.5 MB
- Stars: 99
- Watchers: 15
- Forks: 54
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE.txt
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# PyPSA-Eur-Sec: A Sector-Coupled Open Optimisation Model of the European Energy System
**PyPSA-Eur-Sec v0.7.0 has been merged into PyPSA-Eur with version [v0.8.0](https://pypsa-eur.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html). Please go to [PyPSA-Eur](https://github.com/pypsa/pypsa-eur) to run sector-coupling studies for the European energy system with PyPSA. This repository is now deprecated!**
PyPSA-Eur-Sec is an open model dataset of the European energy system at the
transmission network level that covers the full ENTSO-E area.
PyPSA-Eur-Sec builds on the electricity generation and transmission
model [PyPSA-Eur](https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur) to add demand
and supply for the following sectors: transport, space and water
heating, biomass, industry and industrial feedstocks, agriculture,
forestry and fishing. This completes the energy system and includes
all greenhouse gas emitters except waste management and land use.
**WARNING**: PyPSA-Eur-Sec is under active development and has several
[limitations](https://pypsa-eur-sec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/limitations.html) which
you should understand before using the model. The github repository
[issues](https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur-sec/issues) collect known
topics we are working on (please feel free to help or make suggestions).
The [documentation](https://pypsa-eur-sec.readthedocs.io/) remains somewhat
patchy.
You can find showcases of the model's capabilities in the preprint
[Benefits of a Hydrogen Network in Europe](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05816),
a [paper in Joule with a description of the industry
sector](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09563), or in [a 2021
presentation at EMP-E](https://nworbmot.org/energy/brown-empe.pdf).
We cannot support this model if you choose to use it.
Please see the [documentation](https://pypsa-eur-sec.readthedocs.io/)
for installation instructions and other useful information about the snakemake workflow.
This diagram gives an overview of the sectors and the links between
them:
Each of these sectors is built up on the transmission network nodes
from [PyPSA-Eur](https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur):
For computational reasons the model is usually clustered down
to 50-200 nodes.
PyPSA-Eur-Sec was initially based on the model PyPSA-Eur-Sec-30 described
in the paper [Synergies of sector coupling and transmission
reinforcement in a cost-optimised, highly renewable European energy
system](https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05290) (2018) but it differs by
being based on the higher resolution electricity transmission model
[PyPSA-Eur](https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur) rather than a
one-node-per-country model, and by including biomass, industry,
industrial feedstocks, aviation, shipping, better carbon management,
carbon capture and usage/sequestration, and gas networks.
PyPSA-Eur-Sec includes PyPSA-Eur as a
[snakemake](https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html)
[subworkflow](https://snakemake.readthedocs.io/en/stable/snakefiles/modularization.html#snakefiles-sub-workflows). PyPSA-Eur-Sec
uses PyPSA-Eur to build the clustered transmission model along with
wind, solar PV and hydroelectricity potentials and time series. Then
PyPSA-Eur-Sec adds other conventional generators, storage units and
the additional sectors.
# Licence
The code in PyPSA-Eur-Sec is released as free software under the
[MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT), see `LICENSE.txt`.
However, different licenses and terms of use may apply to the various
input data.