The Open Sustainability Policy Summit

The energy transition is driving increased energy system coupling across economic and infrastructure sectors, geographies, and timescales, while simultaneously attempting to capture a wider range of social feasibility and equity considerations than has been the case historically. The result is a growing need for integrated system planning processes that efficiently communicates options and constraints between an increasingly diverse range of modeling paradigms, software tools, subject matter experts, and community stakeholders. This is by no means a solved problem, nor is it just a software effort. However, it’s one that NREL and its partners in the Global Power System Transformation Consortium have been working on, both separately and together, for many years. This talk will review past efforts in this area and highlight current and future work, emphasizing the importance of open tools and standards in this process.