General information

Authors

Sebastian D. Lumpp, Michel Zadé, Markus Doepfert

Organization

Chair of Energy Economy and Application Technology, Technical University of Munich

Version

1.0

Date

01.06.2021

Copyright

The model code is licensed under the GNU General Public License 3.0. This documentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Description

lemlab is an open-source tool for the agent-based development and testing of local energy market applications offering:

  • a fully open-source, agent-based local energy market modelling toolbox

  • a modular and extendable design for easy adaptation to your own research questions

  • real-time capabilities for the development and testing of hard- and software

  • a database-agnostic approach that enables the integration of multiple database technologies

  • integrated time-series data for several plant types (household loads, pv, wind, heat pumps, electric vehicles etc…)

  • template functionality for load and generation forecasting, trading strategies, cutting-edge market clearing algorithms designed specifically for LEMs [paper under review] and much more…

Changes

01.06.2021 - first release

Dependencies

  • Python please see lemlab-env.yaml for virtual environment configuration

  • Any solver supported by pyomo. We suggest gurobi or cplex

  • PostgreSQL