Sustainable Energy Transitions

Investigating how society needs to be aware of EROEI (energy return on energy invested) dynamics of the different energy sources as it transitions away from fossil fuels. A project by Sgouris Sgouridis and Dénes Csala at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology

This is an interactive global visualization and exploration interface (exploratorium).

App

Try: http://set.csaladen.es

Articles

1. Sgouridis, Csala, A Framework for Defining Sustainable Energy Transitions: Principles, Dynamics, and Implications, 2014, Sustainability
2. Sgouridis, Bardi, Csala, A Net Energy-based Analysis for a Climate-constrained Sustainable Energy Transition, 2015, preprint on arXiv
3. Sgouridis, Csala, Bardi, The Sower's way. Quantifying the Narrowing Net-Energy Pathways to a Global Energy Transition, 2016, Env. Res. Let.

Models

• SET Model 1.0 | Online simulator | AnyLogic ALP source file
• SET Model 2.0 | Online simulator | AnyLogic source file

Cite

Please use articles (1) and (3) to refer to this work. Contact the authors (Dénes, Sgouris) if you would like to use the data presented on this website more extensively or you would like to collaborate on the project.

Description

You can find a detailed description of the model creation, data mining and analysis and visualization here, in the Workflow section. The code is presented in interactive Jupyter notebooks that you can download and run yourself.

Credit

Dénes Csala, 2016
http://csaladen.es