The European Union has open-sourced its ten-year network development planning tools, providing a transparent and collaborative approach to energy infrastructure planning [1]. The Open-TYNDP project, a collaboration between Open Energy Transition (OET) and the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), aims to enhance transparency and lower barriers to stakeholder participation in European energy planning [2]. The project builds upon PyPSA-Eur, an open-source framework for energy system modeling, and follows the methodology described in ENTSO-E's and ENTSOG's TYNDP 2024 Scenarios Methodology Report [3]. The Open-TYNDP repository is a soft-fork of PyPSA-Eur and contains the entire project, including code and documentation [4].
The project's development status and limitations are important to understand before using the model, and the documentation remains a work in progress [5]. To contribute to the project, users can file issues or make pull requests on GitHub, and discussions can be held on the Discord server [6]. The project is licensed under the MIT License, and different licenses and terms of use may apply to the various input data [7].
