Standalone and open documentation for the suite of models

The Horizon Europe Energy project 101118123 – OpenMod4Africa (Open Modelling Toolbox for development of long-term pathways for the energy system in Africa) is a three-year project (2023–2026) about the development of an energy modelling toolbox for analyses of the future energy and power systems in Africa. Furthermore, capacity building in the use of models and further development of the toolbox, among African experts, is a core element in the project.
The main objective is to contribute to an improved and robust understanding of how to develop an energy and a power supply to all Africans by making available, demonstrating and using an open modelling Toolbox. The OM4A Toolbox is populated with a suite of open, integrated, state-of-the-art models and a common database including all necessary data for conducting, among others, scenario building exercises at regional and national level. Two case studies are being conducted to demonstrate the use of the Toolbox, and in addition provide new insights into important challenges related to the energy transition. The research in the project is done in dialogue with three stakeholder groups, one in the Eastern African Power Pool region, one in the Western African Power Pool region, and on in Tunisia.
In this deliverable, we focus on how the models and their documentation are made accessible with training material to African Stakeholders for conducting energy system transition studies in Africa.
The OM4A Toolbox includes the 6 following models:
 GENeSYS-MOD, which analyses long-term low-carbon energy transition pathways considering all energy sectors: electricity, buildings, industry, and transport;
 openTEPES, a decision support system for defining the integrated generation, storage, and transmission expansion plan of a large-scale electric system;
 plan4res, a power system model, which includes a capacity expansion module (adaptation of the generation and storage mix as well as of the existing interconnections in a given year), focused on the optimization of the strategies for managing seasonal storages, and the simulation of the system operation. plan4res focuses on electricity;
 InfraFair, which determines the network utilisation by agents (demand and generators using the network) and countries and, associated with this, the allocation of the cost of the network among agents or countries;
 OnSSET, a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) based tool that enhances electrification planning and decision-making for the accomplishment of energy access goals in currently unserved areas;
 EV-PV, whose goal is to support electric mobility planning, with a focus on predicting the spatio-temporal charging needs, the number of required charging stations, and the potential for PV energy to cover the charging demand. The model focuses on private passenger mobility. Within the framework of the project, a second model has been developed to also address public transport electrification.
This report, Deliverable D3.3, builds upon Deliverable D3.2 by detailing how the suite of linked and open-source models -adapted to the African context- along with their associated training materials and documentation, have been made available online. The goal is to enable new users to independently access and apply the OpenMod4Africa toolbox in their own case studies.