{"id":218,"date":"2025-02-05T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp2.esdl.nl\/?page_id=218"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:58:06","slug":"esdl-mapeditor-essim-toolsuite","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/esdl-mapeditor-essim-toolsuite\/","title":{"rendered":"ESDL MapEditor ESSIM tool suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019 we decided to open source the ESDL MapEditor and the ESSIM Energy System Simulator. Several companies, students and PhDs have used them since then or are still using them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ESDL MapEditor ESSIM tool suite enables users to model and calculate an energy system at a higher level of abstraction, allowing you to define multiple energy carriers, draw a network of producers, consumers, conversion, storage and transport of these energy carriers and then determine the energy balance at hourly level for an entire year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/toolsuite-gui-impression-1024x231.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/toolsuite-gui-impression-1024x231.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/toolsuite-gui-impression-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/toolsuite-gui-impression-768x174.png 768w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/toolsuite-gui-impression-18x4.png 18w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/toolsuite-gui-impression-1200x271.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/toolsuite-gui-impression.png 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Example use cases you could define:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A provincial energy network with a focus on electricity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>An industrial estate with various large consumers modelled in detail and the rest of the companies aggregated as 1 collective company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A heating network with residual heat from a sewage treatment plant, with a large heat pump powered by sustainable generation on land (sun and wind)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ESSIM-use-cases-1024x487.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ESSIM-use-cases-1024x487.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ESSIM-use-cases-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ESSIM-use-cases-768x365.png 768w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ESSIM-use-cases-18x9.png 18w, https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/ESSIM-use-cases.png 1085w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ESDLMapEditorESSIM\/docker-toolsuite\">installation instructions<\/a> which explains how to install the tool suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ESDLMapEditorESSIM\/essim-tutorials\">tutorials<\/a> which explains step by step how to create an ESDL that can be calculated with ESSIM and explains the results you get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Installation instructions: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ESDLMapEditorESSIM\/docker-toolsuite\">https:\/\/github.com\/ESDLMapEditorESSIM\/docker-toolsuite<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tutorials: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ESDLMapEditorESSIM\/essim-tutorials\">https:\/\/github.com\/ESDLMapEditorESSIM\/essim-tutorials<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ESDL MapEditor documentation: <a href=\"https:\/\/esdl-mapeditor-documentation.readthedocs.io\/\">https:\/\/esdl-mapeditor-documentation.readthedocs.io\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ESSIM documentation: <a href=\"https:\/\/essim-documentation.readthedocs.io\/\">https:\/\/essim-documentation.readthedocs.io\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019 hebben we besloten om de ESDL MapEditor en de ESSIM Energy System Simulator open source beschikbaar te stellen. Verschillende bedrijven, studenten en PhDs hebben er sindsdien gebruik van gemaakt of doen dat nog steeds. Met de ESDL MapEditor ESSIM toolsuite ben je als gebruiker in staat om op een wat hoger abstractieniveau een &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/esdl-mapeditor-essim-toolsuite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ESDL MapEditor ESSIM toolsuite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-218","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esdl.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}