openENTRANCE

The ambition of the openENTRANCE project is to develop and establish an open, transparent and integrated modelling platform for assessing low-carbon transition pathways of the European energy system. In this context, the open source energy system model GENeSYS-MOD is one of the core models to be developed, enabling quantitative scenario pathway studies of the future European energy system. The four quantitative scenario studies presented in the openENTRANCE project build upon four storylines. A storyline is a narrative describing possible future trajectories (pathways) of the energy transition. Three of the storylines, and subsequently quantified scenario pathway studies in openENTRANCE comply with the (European fraction of the) 1.5 ◦C global temperature increase limit. The fourth one approaches the 2.0 ◦C limit. The quantified scenario pathway results not only show the needs of the fully open energy system model GENeSYS-MOD to find feasible solutions of the underlying analytical optimization problem, but more importantly highlight what needs to be done in the future European energy system if we seriously intend to limit global warming.