EU Energy Regulator ACER uses open-source for flexibility assessments
Charlotte Heikendorf
Dear all at Openmod,
Open Energy Transition shared some exciting news today: we will be supporting the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in building an open-source, PyPSA-based platform for EU-wide flexibility assessment. You can find more info in the post on LinkedIn.
Marketing & Financial Partnership Specialist at Open Energy Transition – A Non-Profit Tackling Energy Planning Challenges Worldwide
When would it suit you to meet with me?
Robbie Morrison
Hello Charlotte
That's great news.
But I don't have access to LinkedIn. Any chance of cross-posting
somewhere accessible and preferably open and based in Europe?
Without being too partisan, the openmod forum is one place (and
noting the current stub you have already placed there).
This is not a cheap comment on my part.
Having been online since 1991 (back then on dial‑up and NNTP), I
have seen and experienced many events, threats, failures,
information strandings, the UNIX wars, personal information abuse,
and much more.
I believe it is only a matter of time (if not already) before
United States social media — across the board — is weaponized
against social dissent and practice.
In addition, our information commons is being threatened in ways I
have never seen. To name a few: US government websites, federal
and state libraries and museums, threats to Wikipedia,
ever‑tightening intellectual property rights, and now AI‑generated
material and analysis. Recent efforts by the European Union to
regulate social media tech will no doubt come under relentless
pressure from the current US administration (along with
environmental standards, human rights protections, diversity
initiatives, and so on).
So anything that energy system modelers can do to collectively
disengage from US tech, build our own platforms based in Europe,
and strengthen our resilience can only be good.
One of the reasons we have arrived at this juncture is that
convenience has prevailed, despite numerous warnings and cautions
from campaigners and experts.
Third parties are now scrambling to replicate US Federal Emergency
Management Agency tooling, relocate numerous federal datasets, and
so on. I'll bet beer that the Mauna Loa atmospheric recordings
will soon be ordered to cease (because they're a part of the
climate alarmist industry).
We owe it to ourselves to protect and nurture our information
commons as best we can. And fortunately Creative Commons gave us
some great legal tools with which to do so.
And for those who don't follow, recent polls show that the
far‑right AfD is now the most popular party in Germany. Clearly
not the social tipping point we had been hoping for and certainly
a risk when shifting platforms to Europe too.
Not wishing to single out Open Energy Transition either, but your
post arrived in my inbox at this important time. And good luck
with your ACER work on flexibility too.
with best wishes, Robbie
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