Speed-up methods for energy system models - a model experiment: flashlights and lessons learned in the BEAM-ME project

Abstract

On May 22, 2019, the final workshop of the BEAM-ME project took place in Aachen, Germany. In the BEAM-ME project years (realization of acceleration strategies of application-oriented mathematics and computer science for optimizing energy system models)we have been working on the acceleration of energy system for the last three. The aim was to reduce existing computing times and to enable even more detailed energy system models. The consortium consists of an interdisciplinary team of modellers, computer scientists, mathematicians and experts from the field of high performance computing. Within the framework of the project we have developed new algorithms and methods to calculate distributed linear optimization systems and to solve them on supercomputers. In an accompanying model experiment, seven research institutions in the field of energy system modelling compared and further developed conceptual approaches for accelerating models. This presentation provides an overview of results and the ten lessons learned from the model experiment