References
GENeSYS-MOD has been used in a wide range of academic research across multiple institutions, including both peer-reviewed research articles, policy recommendations, project deliverables and reports, etc. This page lists all publications with GENeSYS-MOD, sorted by date of publication. It will continuously be updated.
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Hans Auer, Pedro Crespo del Granado, Pao-Yu Oei, Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, Thorsten Burandt, Daniel Huppmann, and Ingeborg Grabaak. Development and modelling of different decarbonization scenarios of the European energy system until 2050 as a contribution to achieving the ambitious 1.5 °C climate target—establishment of open source/data modelling in the European H2020 project openENTRANCE. e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 137(7):346–358, November 2020. URL: https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00502-020-00832-7 (visited on 2023-09-26), doi:10.1007/s00502-020-00832-7.
Mostafa Barani, Konstantin Löffler, Pedro Crespo Del Granado, Nikita Moskalenko, Evangelos Panos, Franziska M. Hoffart, Christian Von Hirschhausen, Maria Kannavou, Hans Auer, Karlo Hainsch, Tatiana González Grandón, Siri Mathisen, and Asgeir Tomasgard. European energy vision 2050 and beyond: Designing scenarios for Europe’s energy transition. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 225:116074, January 2026. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364032125007476 (visited on 2026-02-15), doi:10.1016/j.rser.2025.116074.
Mostafa Barani, Konstantin Löffler, Luka Garibashvili, and Pedro Crespo Del Granado. The road to a sustainable energy system in the Guadeloupe archipelago: Challenges and opportunities. Heliyon, 11(2):e41760, January 2025. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2405844025001409 (visited on 2025-02-08), doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41760.
Hans-Karl Bartholdsen, Anna Eidens, Konstantin Löffler, Frederik Seehaus, Felix Wejda, Thorsten Burandt, Pao-Yu Oei, Claudia Kemfert, and Christian von Hirschhausen. Pathways for Germany’s Low-Carbon Energy Transformation Towards 2050. Energies, 12(15):2988, August 2019. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/15/2988 (visited on 2019-08-03), doi:10.3390/en12152988.
S. Berendes, S. Hilpert, S. Günther, C. Muschner, S. Candas, K. Hainsch, J. van Ouwerkerk, S. Buchholz, and M. Söthe. Evaluating the usability of open source frameworks in energy system modelling. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 159:112174, May 2022. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364032122001009 (visited on 2022-05-24), doi:10.1016/j.rser.2022.112174.
Thorsten Burandt. Analyzing the necessity of hydrogen imports for net-zero emission scenarios in Japan. Applied Energy, 298:117265, September 2021. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261921006814 (visited on 2022-07-19), doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117265.
Thorsten Burandt, Konstantin Löffler, and Karlo Hainsch. GENeSYS-MOD v2.0 - Enhancing the Global Energy System Model. DIW Data Documentation, July 2018. URL: https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.594273.de/diw_datadoc_2018-094.pdf.
Thorsten Burandt, Bobby Xiong, Konstantin Löffler, and Pao-Yu Oei. Decarbonizing China’s energy system – Modeling the transformation of the electricity, transportation, heat, and industrial sectors. Applied Energy, 255:113820, December 2019. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306261919315077 (visited on 2022-11-19), doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113820.
Soner Candas, Christoph Muschner, Stefanie Buchholz, Rasmus Bramstoft, Jonas van Ouwerkerk, Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, Stephan Günther, Sarah Berendes, Stefanie Nguyen, and Aparna Justin. Code exposed: Review of five open-source frameworks for modeling renewable energy systems. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161:112272, June 2022. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122001927 (visited on 2022-08-06), doi:10.1016/j.rser.2022.112272.
Karlo Hainsch. Identifying policy areas for the transition of the transportation sector. Energy Policy, 178:113591, July 2023. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421523001763 (visited on 2023-05-23), doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113591.
Karlo Hainsch, Hanna Brauers, Thorsten Burandt, Leonard Goeke, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert, Mario Kendziorski, Konstantin Loeffler, Pao-Yu Oei, Fabian Praeger, and Ben Wealer. Make the European Green Deal Real – Combining Climate Neutrality and Economic Recovery. Politikberatung kompakt, 2020. URL: https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.791736.de/diwkompakt_2020-153.pdf.
Karlo Hainsch, Thorsten Burandt, Konstantin Löffler, Claudia Kemfert, Pao-Yu Oei, and Christian von Hirschhausen. Emission Pathways Towards a Low-Carbon Energy System for Europe: A Model-Based Analysis of Decarbonization Scenarios. The Energy Journal, September 2021. URL: http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/ejarticle.aspx?id=3730 (visited on 2021-01-11), doi:10.5547/01956574.42.5.khai.
Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, Thorsten Burandt, Hans Auer, Pedro Crespo del Granado, Paolo Pisciella, and Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard. Energy transition scenarios: What policies, societal attitudes, and technology developments will realize the EU Green Deal? Energy, 239:122067, January 2022. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054422102315X (visited on 2022-07-26), doi:10.1016/j.energy.2021.122067.
Jonathan Hanto, Philipp Herpich, Konstantin Löffler, Karlo Hainsch, Nikita Moskalenko, and Sarah Schmidt. Assessing the implications of hydrogen blending on the European energy system towards 2050. Advances in Applied Energy, 13:100161, February 2024. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666792423000409 (visited on 2024-04-11), doi:10.1016/j.adapen.2023.100161.
Jonathan Hanto, Lukas Krawielicki, Alexandra Krumm, Nikita Moskalenko, Konstantin Löffler, Christian Hauenstein, and Pao-Yu Oei. Effects of decarbonization on the energy system and related employment effects in South Africa. Environmental Science & Policy, 124:73–84, October 2021. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1462901121001532 (visited on 2021-06-20), doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.001.
Philipp Herpich, Franziska Holz, and Konstantin Löffler. Wärmewende in Berlin: Versorgungssicherheit nach dem Erdgas mit erneuerbaren Energien gewährleisten. DIW Wochenbericht, 2023. URL: http://www.diw.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=diw_01.c.887323.de (visited on 2024-04-11), doi:10.18723/DIW_WB:2023-49-1.
Philipp Herpich, Konstantin Löffler, Karlo Hainsch, Jonathan Hanto, and Nikita Moskalenko. 100% renewable heat supply in Berlin by 2050 – A model-based approach. Applied Energy, 375:124122, December 2024. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0306261924015058 (visited on 2025-02-08), doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124122.
Franziska Holz, Lukas Barner, Karlo Hainsch, Claudia Kemfert, Konstantin Löffler, Björn Steigerwald, and Christian von Hirschhausen. LNG Import Capacity Expansion in Germany – Short-term Relief Likely to Turn into Medium-term Stranded Assets. IAEE Energy Forum, 2023. URL: https://www.iaee.org/newsletter/issue/115.
Daniel Huppmann, Elmar Kriegler, Volker Krey, Keywan Riahi, Joeri Rogelj, Steven Rose, John Weyant, Nico Bauer, Christoph Bertram, Valentina Bosetti, Katherine Calvin, Jonathan Doelman, Laurent Drouet, Johannes Emmerling, Stefan Frank, Shinichiro Fujimori, David Gernaat, Arnulf Grubler, Celine Guivarch, Martin Haigh, Christian Holz, Gokul Iyer, Etsushi Kato, Kimon Keramidas, Alban Kitous, Florian Leblanc, Jing-Yu Liu, Konstantin Löffler, Gunnar Luderer, Adriana Marcucci, David McCollum, Silvana Mima, Alexander Popp, Ronald Sands, Fuminori Sano, Jessica Strefler, Junichi Tsutsui, Detlef Van Vuuren, Zoi Vrontisi, Marshall Wise, and Runsen Zhang. IAMC 1.5°C Scenario Explorer and Data hosted by IIASA. N/A, 2018. URL: https://data.ene.iiasa.ac.at/DOI/SR15/08-2018.15429/ (visited on 2020-11-18), doi:10.22022/SR15/08-2018.15429.
Claudia Kemfert, Thorsten Burandt, Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, Pao-Yu Oei, and Christian von Hirschhausen. Atomkraft für Klimaschutz unnötig – Kostengünstigere Alternativen sind verfügbar. DIW Wochenbericht, 84(47):1049–1058, November 2017. URL: http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.570194.de/17-47-1.pdf (visited on 2017-12-18).
Claudia Kemfert, Thorsten Burandt, Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, Pao-Yu Oei, and Christian von Hirschhausen. Nuclear power unnecessary for climate protection—there are more cost-efficient alternatives. DIW Economic Bulletin, 7(48):498–506, November 2017. URL: http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.572291.de/diw_econ_bull_2017-48-2.pdf (visited on 2017-12-18).
Linus Lawrenz, Bobby Xiong, Luise Lorenz, Alexandra Krumm, Hans Hosenfeld, Thorsten Burandt, Konstantin Löffler, Pao-Yu Oei, and Christian Von Hirschhausen. Exploring Energy Pathways for the Low-Carbon Transformation in India—A Model-Based Analysis. Energies, 11(11):3001, November 2018. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/11/3001 (visited on 2019-06-11), doi:10.3390/en11113001.
Konstantin Löffler. Social discounting, social costs of carbon, and their use in energy system models. Environmental Research Letters, 16(10):104005, October 2021. URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac228a (visited on 2024-04-11), doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac228a.
Konstantin Löffler, Thorsten Burandt, Karlo Hainsch, Claudia Kemfert, Pao-Yu Oei, and Christian von Hirschhausen. Modeling the Low-Carbon Transformation in Europe: Developing Paths for the European Energy System Until 2050. In Christian von Hirschhausen, Clemens Gerbaulet, Claudia Kemfert, Casimir Lorenz, and Pao-Yu Oei, editors, Energiewende "Made in Germany", pages 345–374. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2018. URL: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-95126-3_13 (visited on 2019-05-14), doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95126-3_13.
Konstantin Löffler, Thorsten Burandt, Karlo Hainsch, and Pao-Yu Oei. Modeling the low-carbon transition of the European energy system - A quantitative assessment of the stranded assets problem. Energy Strategy Reviews, 26:100422, November 2019. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211467X19301142 (visited on 2021-03-31), doi:10.1016/j.esr.2019.100422.
Konstantin Löffler, Thorsten Burandt, Karlo Hainsch, Pao-Yu Oei, Frederik Seehaus, and Felix Wejda. Chances and barriers for Germany's low carbon transition - Quantifying uncertainties in key influential factors. Energy, 239:121901, January 2022. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544221021496 (visited on 2022-07-19), doi:10.1016/j.energy.2021.121901.
Konstantin Löffler, Karlo Hainsch, Thorsten Burandt, Pao-Yu Oei, Claudia Kemfert, and Christian von Hirschhausen. Designing a Model for the Global Energy System - GENeSYS-MOD: An Application of the Open-Source Energy Modeling System (OSeMOSYS). Energies, 10(10):1468, October 2017. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/10/10/1468 (visited on 2019-02-08), doi:10.3390/en10101468.
Konstantin Löffler, Karlo Hainsch, Thorsten Burandt, Pao-Yu Oei, and Christian Von Hirschhausen. Decarbonizing the Indian Energy System until 2050 - An Application of the Open Source Energy Modeling System OSeMOSYS. IAEE Energy Forum, pages 51–52, July 2017.
Siri Mathisen, Konstantin Löffler, Mostafa Barani, and Michael M. Belsnes. Energy and Climate Plans in Energy System Modelling Scenarios. In 2025 21st International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), 1–6. Lisbon, Portugal, May 2025. IEEE. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11050155/ (visited on 2026-02-15), doi:10.1109/EEM64765.2025.11050155.
Siri Mathisen, Ove Wolfgang, Simon Andersen, Kristoffer Steen Andersen, Michael Belsnes, Odd André Hjelkram, Sara Johansson, Sofia Klugmann, Konstantin Löffler, Erika Mata, Akram Sandvall, Sarah Schmidt, Pernille Seljom, Oskar Vågerö, and Marianne Zeyringer. Nordic Energy Outlooks - Final report WP2 : Increased electrification – new generators and consumers. Technical Report, SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway, August 2022. URL: https://sintef.brage.unit.no/sintef-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/3014117/NEO+Final+report+WP2.pdf?sequence=1 (visited on 2024-04-11).
Siri Mathisen, Marianne Zeyringer, Kristina Haaskjold, Konstantin Löffler, Érika Mata, Akram Sandvall, Kristoffer Steen Andersen, Oskar Vågerö, and Ove Wolfgang. The REPowerEU policy’s impact on the Nordic power system. Energy Strategy Reviews, 54:101454, July 2024. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211467X24001615 (visited on 2025-02-08), doi:10.1016/j.esr.2024.101454.
Nikita Moskalenko, Konstantin Löffler, Karlo Hainsch, Jonathan Hanto, and Philipp Herpich. Europe’s independence from Russian natural gas — Effects of import restrictions on energy system development. Energy Reports, 11:2853–2866, June 2024. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352484724001161 (visited on 2024-02-27), doi:10.1016/j.egyr.2024.02.035.
Pao-Yu Oei, Thorsten Burandt, Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, and Claudia Kemfert. Lessons from Modeling 100% Renewable Scenarios Using GENeSYS-MOD. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, January 2020. URL: http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/eeeparticle.aspx?id=306 (visited on 2021-01-11), doi:10.5547/2160-5890.9.1.poei.
Pao-Yu Oei, Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, von Hirschhausen, Franziska Holz, and Claudia Kemfert. Neues Klima für Europa: Klimaschutzziele für 2030 sollten angehoben werden. DIW Wochenbericht, 2019(41):754 – 760, 2019.
Pao-Yu Oei, Karlo Hainsch, Konstantin Löffler, Christian von Hirschhausen, Franziska Holz, and Claudia Kemfert. A new climate for Europe: 2030 climate targets must be more ambitious. DIW Weekly Report, 2019. URL: https://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/diw_01.c.683026.de/dwr-19-40-1.pdf.
Luis Sarmiento, Thorsten Burandt, Konstantin Löffler, and Pao-Yu Oei. Analyzing Scenarios for the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources in the Mexican Energy System—An Application of the Global Energy System Model (GENeSYS-MOD). Energies, 12(17):3270, January 2019. URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/17/3270 (visited on 2021-01-04), doi:10.3390/en12173270.
Jonas van Ouwerkerk, Karlo Hainsch, Soner Candas, Christoph Muschner, Stefanie Buchholz, Stephan Günther, Hendrik Huyskens, Sarah Berendes, Konstantin Löffler, Christian Bußar, Fateme Tardasti, Luja von Köckritz, and Rasmus Bramstoft. Comparing open source power system models - A case study focusing on fundamental modeling parameters for the German energy transition. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161:112331, June 2022. URL: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1364032122002453 (visited on 2022-05-24), doi:10.1016/j.rser.2022.112331.
Hans Auer, Konstantin Löffler, Karlo Hainsch, Thorsten Burandt, Ingeborg Graabak, Sarah Schmidt, Ahmet Yucekaya, Emre Celebi, Gokhan Kirkil, and Sebastian Zwickl-Bernhard. Quantitative Scenarios for Low Carbon Futures of the European Energy System on Country, Region and Local Level. Technical Report DELIVERABLE NO. 3.2, TU Wien, TU Berlin, SINTEF, April 2022. URL: https://openentrance.eu/2022/07/06/quantitative-scenarios-for-low-carbon-futures-of-the-european-energy-system-oncountry-region-and-local-level/.