About us
OpenPlan 2.0 project consortium
The functions for applying the OpenPlan tool in the context of municipal heat planning are being developed in the OpenPlan 2.0 research project. The project consortium consists of the Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), the German Solar Energy Society (DGS), and the Fraunhofer IFAM(IFAM). It will be funded from September 2024 to August 2027 as part of the 'Technology-oriented System Analysis' funding area of the 7th Energy Research Program of the BMWK.
OpenPlan 2.0 project partners
The OpenPlan 2.0 project places particular emphasis on the practical applicability of the tool. energielenker projects GmbH and Öko-Zentrum NRW are integral members of the project team as permanent practical partners. Through their involvement with real-life applications and their direct feedback on tool enhancements, they ensure that the OpenPlan tool can be used in the context of municipal heat planning.
open_plan 1.0 project consortium
The functions for planning cellular energy systems were developed in the context of the open_plan 1.0 research project. The project consortium consisted of the Reiner Lemoine Institut (RLI), the German Solar Energy Society (DGS) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). It was funded from January 2020 to June 2023 as part of the 'Technology-oriented Systems Analysis' funding area of the BMWi's 7th Energy Research Program 'Innovation for the Energy Transition.'
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GitHub
You can follow the development of this user interface, or deploy your own open-plan tool (including simulation server and user interface) by visiting our github page
Simulation server
Our simulations run on a server hosted at RLI, the code to setup the simulation server is licenced under MIT License and publicly available on our github page. The simulation are perfomed with multi-vector-simulator, a code using oemof-solph to simulate energy system model from techno-economic parameters.