Emobility in Python (emobpy) & Vehicle Energy Consumption in Python (VencoPy). Demonstration of two Open Source tools describing electric vehicle energy demand

Energy system modeling increasingly includes electric vehicle fleets both as additional electric demands and as a source of flexibility for load-shifting since approximately 10 years. Recently, tools for calculating electricity demand and flexibility profiles are opening up, fulfilling a pre-requisite for easy reproducibility of research results. Two tools that are used for the analysis of sector-coupling effects between electricity and transport sector are emobpy (developed by Carlos Gaete at DIW) and VencoPy (developed by Niklas Wulff at DLR-TT). The talk sheds light on both tools’ concepts and compares output and research applications