Why CRESYM ?
CRESYM members share that energy systems are facing a fast-evolving environment with increasing complexity and uncertainty.
In 2023, they founded CRESYM to be able to set up R&I collaborations among them all in an agile manner, pooling their funding and expertise, and levelling out legal requirements once and for all while flexibly accommodating each member’s own decision-making processes.
In 3 years, CRESYM members signed together 25 project agreements, 4 of them being signed only 1 month after the initial project idea emerged.
“CRESYM projects” complement Horizon Europe opportunities, and sometimes one pairs with a Horizon Europe project to mutually leverage each other.
Our ambition
Unite to catalyse the development of energy system modelling and simulation opensource bricks in order to meet the energy transition challenge.
Our values
CRESYM is non-profit and acts transparently for the general interest, addressing new and/or complex, low TRL, technical challenges.
We reconcile security and IPRs when developping opensource deliverables. Opensource, non contaminating licences are key to ease the dissemination among operators, manufacturers and vendors in a fair, neutral manner.
We organise collaborative, efficient R&D works, with practical intermediary outputs. We build up on, as well as comfort, support and promote other existing opensource initiatives.
CRESYM is a member of LF Energy.
We are committed to protect privacy and promote diversity & gender equality.
Our action
- R&I projects: CRESYM facilitates the agile setup of collaborative R&I projects, involving its members as funding or funded parties (aside from, and in complementation to, the Horizon Europe programme).
- Assets curation (‘Commons’): CRESYM ensures the long-term maintenance of R&I project results and other members’ software assets, preventing their deterioration and supporting their industrialisation.
- DoNets: CRESYM’s internal doctoral networks complementary to the HE MSCA framework.
- Services: training (good coding practices, power systems dynamics, etc.), innovation scouting, support to public procurement processes.
Our governance
- The General Assembly validates the strategic orientations, budget and membership of CRESYM.
- The Board defines the long-term vision & position of CRESYM and supervises daily operation and budget.
- The Projects Committee organises the expert framework, sets up the common program and supervises every project.
- Every project is autonomous with a dedicated, standard MLA.
- Pr Antonello Monti, President
- Pr Peter Palensky, Vice-president
- Sebastien Lepy, General manager
antonello monti
President
Professor, Institute Director at RWTH Aachen University
Peter Palensky
Vice-President
Professor at TU Delft
Sébastien Lepy
General Manager
They talk about us
Gabriel Bareux
R&D Director, RTE
"The energy transition is a worldwide tremendous transformation with many dimensions. There are many options in terms of energy carriers, technologies, new ones, old ones, … One of the key factor to succeed is the ability to model and simulate these different options in terms of efficiency, affordability, resilience, ease of deployment, ... CRESYM will help everyone to choose the best ones. "
Dr Philipp Strauss
Deputy Director, Fraunhofer IEE
"The open source approach for high quality power system modelling and simulation of CRESYM will support good scientific practice and will allow more transparent grid planning procedures. This initiative has the potential to considerably contribute to a faster transition to a sustainable energy supply."
Dr. Peter Hoffmann
Energy System Planning, Associate Director, TenneT
"CRESYM is a valuable initiative and the intended open source approach will facilitate the execution of collaborative studies and result reproduction in the future."