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Catalyst Cooperative Events, including online seminars, conference presentations, and in-person workshops.

From Fall 2024 through Spring 2026 Catalyst will be organizing a series of seminars and workshops centered on familiarizing early-career researchers with US open energy data and open source tools and techniques for working with it.

Upcoming Workshops

Open Energy System Modeling with Kamran Tehranchi & Trevor Barnes

Kamran and Trevor will present on PyPSA-USA (GitHub), a novel, flexible, open-source and open-data energy system model designed for power system and multi-sector planning in the continental United States. Last year Kamran integrated Catalyst’s PUDL Project with the PyPSA-USA model to provide much of its input data.

Built on the Python for Power System Analysis (PyPSA) framework, PyPSA-USA is highly configurable to support planning with flexibility across sectors and spatial scales. The framework also offers flexible spatial resolution by allowing to switch between nodal and zonal transmission configurations, providing higher flexibility in spatial resolution than other open-source U.S. models. It integrates comprehensive data sources—including climate reanalysis data for renewable resource variability, sectorally explicit electric and thermal demand profiles, detailed generator and storage unit characteristics, and policy constraints to support diverse research goals. They will also present on energy system modeling insights from their research.

This is the third installation of a year-long workshop & seminar series focused on helping early career energy systems researchers get more familiar with data management and software development. There’s no cost to participants. This work has been supported by the Sloan Foundation.

Catalyst Cooperative is a worker-owned cooperative that scrapes, cleans and publishes free and open-source U.S. energy data through the Public Utility Data Liberation (PUDL) project.

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Energy & Environment program for funding this work and The Carpentries for supporting our curriculum development.