Open-Source Models Based on PyPSA¶
PyPSA is the software framework to build open-source energy system models. Many model implementations by different users already exist. Some are open source and actively maintained. Below is a list of some known models.
Regional Models¶
Global¶
PyPSA-Earth: Global energy system model, maintained by pypsa-meets-earth
Europe¶
PyPSA-Eur: European energy system model, maintained by TU Berlin
PyPSA-DE: German energy system model, maintained by TU Berlin- PyPSA-CEE: Central and Eastern Europe power system model, maintained by Ember
PyPSA-PL: Polish power system model, developed by Instrat.pl
PyPSA-Spain: Spanish energy system model, maintained by Polytechnic University of Madrid
PyPSA-UK: United Kingdom power system model, maintained by Ember- PyPSA-GB: Great Britain power system model, maintained by the University of Edinburgh
- GBPower: Operation-only present time Great Britain power system model, maintained by Lukas Franken
PyPSA-AT: Austrian power and gas system model, maintained by Austrian Gas Grid Management AG (AGGM)- PyPSA-IEI: European energy system model, maintained by Fraunhofer IEG, Fraunhofer ISI, and d-fine
PyPSA-NL2025: Dutch energy system model simulating day-ahead, imbalance-only, and value stacking for energy storage projects, maintained by Tanne Heemsbergen
Asia¶
PyPSA-China-PIK: Chinese power and heat sector-coupling model, maintained by PIK based on a previous version
PyPSA-VN: Vietnamese electricity model, developed by FIAS
PyPSA-KR: South Korean energy system model, developed by Korea University
PyPSA-Japan: Japanese power system model, developed by Samuel Matthew Dumlao
PyPSA-Kazakhstan: Kazakhstan power system model, developed by Open Energy Transition 
TZ-APG: ASEAN power system model, maintained by TransitionZero- PyPSA-ASEAN: ASEAN power system model, developed by pypsa-meets-earth
Americas¶
PyPSA-USA: United States energy system model, maintained by Stanford University
PyPSA-Brazil: Brazilian power system model (see paper), developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
PyPSA-BC: BC PyPSA work for the PICS Decarbonization project, maintained by Simon Fraser University- pypsa-illinois: Using PyPSA to model the Illinois electricity system for storage requirement analysis maintained by Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
PyPSA-AR: Reproducible model of the Argentine high-voltage power grid using PyPSA maintained by Fundación Torcuato Di Tella (FTDT).
Africa¶
PyPSA-RSA: South-African electricity model, maintained by Meridian Economics- PyPSA-ZA: Previous version of PyPSA-RSA
Oceania¶
ISPyPSA: Australian capacity expansion model, maintained by CEEM University of New South Wales
PyPSA-NZ: New Zealand energy system model, developed by Leon Schumm
Interactive Tools and Specialized Applications¶
- Build your own global zero emission scenario model.energy, maintained by pypsa.org
- Define your own sector-coupled European scenarios scenarios
- Build your own green energy import supply chain supply chain
- See how the future German energy system might operate with today's weather
- Transport of chemical energy carriers to Germany TRACE
- Transmission grid optimisation eTraGo
- Distribution grid optimisation dDisGo
- Assessing national mid-/long-term energy scenarios using a least-cost, multi-sectoral optimisation approach PyPSA-SPICE and visualization, maintained by Agora Energiewende