Pfenninger

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Founded in 2010, Pfenninger is a ngo headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom specializing in Solar, Wind, Hydrogen.

Pfenninger is a research group led by an Associate Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems at the University of Cambridge, specializing in the global transition to 100% clean and renewable energy systems. The group's work encompasses designing future energy systems with high shares of variable renewable electricity, understanding weather-dependent variability of renewable generation and demand across spatial scales from buildings to continents, and examining trade-offs between energy transition and sustainability concerns including land use, material requirements, and ecosystem impacts. The team develops open-source scientific software and tools for energy system modeling and renewable energy simulation, including Calliope (an energy system modeling framework), Renewables.ninja (for simulating hourly power output from wind and solar plants worldwide), and the Sector-Coupled Euro-Calliope model. Research projects include sector coupling, demand response through heat electrification, hydrogen storage, and participatory modeling approaches for energy policy. The group has extensive experience managing open-source software development across multiple institutions and collaborates with European institutions and policymakers on energy transition scenarios.

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