The Link to LEAP screen is used to set up a live connection between
a WEAP water resource planning model and a LEAP energy planning model.
The Long-range
Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) is SEI's software tool
for energy policy analysis and climate change mitigation assessment. LEAP has been adopted
by hundreds of organizations in more than 150 countries worldwide. Its
users include government agencies, academics, non-governmental organizations,
consulting companies, and energy utilities. It has been used at many different
scales ranging from cities and states to national, regional and global
applications. LEAP
is an integrated modeling tool that can be used to track energy consumption,
production and resource extraction in all sectors of an economy. It
can be used to account for both energy sector and non-energy sector greenhouse
gas (GHG) emission sources and sinks. In
addition to tracking GHGs, LEAP can also be used to analyze emissions
of local and regional air pollutants, making it well-suited to studies
of the climate co-benefits of local air pollution reduction.
WEAP and LEAP are sister tools that share
the many of the same design features and approaches and which are created
by software teams that closely collaborate with each other. In particular
WEAP and LEAP share the following features:
Software platform (Delphi)
Closely coordinated
terminologies.
Closely integrated Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) based on the Windows Common Object Model
(COM).
Coordinated user interfaces
for data entry and reporting
Similar and coordinated
data definition languages for entering data and creating models.
Similar and coordinated
approaches for scenario management
Use the Advanced:
LEAP Link screen in WEAP (or the parallel Link to WEAP screen in
LEAP) to establish a connection between a WEAP area and a LEAP area. Once
a WEAP area is linked to a LEAP area, you can use the LEAPValue
function in expressions to read data and results from LEAP.
Bear in mind that this
option is only available if both WEAP and LEAP are installed and registered
on your computer.
To set up a link between two areas, first
check the Link to LEAP Model check box, then select a LEAP area from the
selection box. Once you have done this the configuration data describing
the LEAP area will be read by WEAP and you will then be asked to specify
how the various elements in the WEAP and LEAP areas are mapped to one
another. In particular, use the table that is displayed in the form to
specify mappings between WEAP and LEAP scenarios, and between WEAP and
LEAP timesteps.
Any errors or missing mapping are displayed
on screen in red. You can also click the Error Check button to have WEAP
and LEAP check for any problems in the WEAP-LEAP linkage.
Four major
restrictions apply to the WEAP areas that can be linked to LEAP.
Both areas must have
the same base and end years.
LEAP areas must have
only a single year of data in their Current Accounts data.
LEAP areas must have
only a single region.
WEAP and LEAP must have an exactly
matching set of timesteps (typically both should be monthly).
The Long-range
Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) is SEI's software tool
for energy policy analysis and climate change mitigation assessment. LEAP has been adopted
by hundreds of organizations in more than 150 countries worldwide. Its
users include government agencies, academics, non-governmental organizations,
consulting companies, and energy utilities. It has been used at many different
scales ranging from cities and states to national, regional and global
applications. LEAP
is an integrated modeling tool that can be used to track energy consumption,
production and resource extraction in all sectors of an economy. It
can be used to account for both energy sector and non-energy sector greenhouse
gas (GHG) emission sources and sinks. In
addition to tracking GHGs, LEAP can also be used to analyze emissions
of local and regional air pollutants, making it well-suited to studies
of the climate co-benefits of local air pollution reduction.