On April 1, Alvaro Porras presented a European framework for integrated resource planning, developed as part of Mopo, during the workshop SMARTargets and Integrated Energy System Planning.
Additionally, Alvaro demonstrated the Mopo tool Spine in a session titled Spine: Energy System Modelling Toolset. This demonstration showcased the capabilities of Spine Tools, a toolset designed for data workflow and energy system planning. Spine Tools facilitate efficient data management, model integration, and scenario analysis, making it an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners in the energy sector.
The European Workshop Week 2025 explores strategies that electric companies and other energy sector organizations can use for comprehensively planning a future, decarbonized energy system.
The first part of the event focused on SMARTargets. The objective of SMARTargets is to develop a new methodology for companies to set greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that are grounded in science, actionable in terms of considering company opportunities, constraints, and risks, and aligned with the international policy goal of limiting warming to well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C, as stated in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Paris Agreement.
The second part of the event explored the concept of integrated energy system planning (IESP), tying back to overall GHG emission reduction target setting, and diving further into the framework, methods, and tools to conduct an IESP. Implementing an ISP can lead to more cost-effective, reliable, and robust resource portfolios as the energy industry transitions to lower states of carbon. This can also play an important role in supporting setting company carbon targets, and assessing various potential pathways to meet specified targets.
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