The project had two main software outcomes: Spine Toolbox modelling workflow manager and the energy systems model SpineOpt. They fulfil the objectives set for the project and both of them are state-of-the-art tools for their respective purposes. Their qualifications have been detailed in the submitted manuscripts available from:
http://www.spine-model.org/publications.htm(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie). Both tools are available for download as open source (
https://github.com/Spine-project(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)). Spine project has also built data processing tools for meteorological data and for power systems data. They are available as plug-ins for Spine Toolbox and also as independent GitHub repositories.
The case studies have also been performed. Their main goal was to facilitate the tool development. Now, after the project, all case studies are available and can be useful starting points for new modellers trying out the Spine tools. They are available as Spine Toolbox projects in the Spine project repositories:
https://github.com/orgs/Spine-project/repositories(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie).
Spine project’s main ways of communication and dissemination have been the project website, presentations and discussions in different events, social media profiles, in particular Twitter, ResearchGate, LinkedIn and GitHub where Spine has a satisfactory following (127 in Twitter, 113 in ResearchGate and 77 in LinkedIn). Spine project, its progress and results have been actively presented at various scientific and other events.
Newsletters describing the project results and the project team have been published twice on the project website and social media channels. In addition, the project has a YouTube channel where videos demonstrating the use of the Spine modelling system have been published during the project. In addition, presentations from the four webinars held in September 2021 have been published there. Progress on the project’s communication and dissemination has been reported and monitored throughout the project. Furthermore, specific key performance indicators were set in the project plan. These were presented above in the Section 1.3 Impact.
The project plan stated that the project would organize five different events, where Spine project and its results would be presented to at least 80 persons who are not involved in the project. This target was easily achieved, as the project organized two live workshops in 2018 and 2019, one webinar in 2020 and four webinars in September 2021. The attendance of the webinar series was very good, with each webinar having 80-140 registrees, 24-73 online participants, and 47-78 YouTube views during the first week after the webinars (presently the views are 80-250 per webinar). Most participants were researchers and modellers, but also private companies, transmission system operators, and consultants. The discussion during the webinars was active with a lot of questions, especially on the technical details and specific problems which highlighted the modelling expertise of the participants.
