The third Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development was held at ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics) in Trieste, Italy, on 10–26 June 2019. KTH, the World Bank and the OpTIMUS community of modellers organized the training programme, joined by UNDP and UNDESA.
Participants from academic, government institutions and international organizations hailed from about 20 countries and attended three tracks of training: 1) OSEMoSYS (Open-Source Energy Modelling System) and CLEWS; 2) OnSSET (Open Source Spatial Electrification Toolkit), and 3) Data management. A High-level Meeting and Strategic Discourse followed the training program. Participants presented model posters, which they developed during the training, with selected presentations made at the High Level Meeting on 27–28 June.
OSEMoSYS is a flexible, open-source tool for energy modelling which has been a high degree of flexibility and is capable of accommodate other “sectors”, such as water and land and of including climate change impacts. There is a growing conversion to this tool by the energy modelling community from developing and developed countries.