Kick-Off Meeting

The METIS project team in front of the IEK-3 at Forschungszentrum Jülich

Thereby, the project team consisting of the Jülich Research Center, the RWTH Aachen University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg introduced themselves.

During the meeting, it was concluded to use the open-source energy system modelling framework FINE (https://github.com/FZJ-IEK3-VSA/FINE) as foundation to implement new models, apply complexity reduction methods, and to develop new solving algorithms.

Further, two task-forces were founded:

• The group Complexity Reduction focusses on the holistic analysis of the complexity dimensions and their reduction before the creation of energy system models.
• The group Parallelization appends on the created mathematical models and develops decomposition algorithms to create many distributable task to profit form the highly parallelized ressourced of High Performance Computers.