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Over the course of time I have gathered some information about a number of energy tools for analysing the integration of renewable energy. Below is a list of these energy tools and you can find a more detailed description by clicking the name of the tool. If you would like to add your energy tool to the list then please contact me.

A very intuitive set of six tables that compare each of the tools with one another is available from the paper "A review of computer tools for analysing the integration of renewable energy into various energy systems", which is available from Science Direct.

The tools have been divided into five primary groups:

1. Global and International energy-system tools
2. National energy-system tools
3. Island energy-system tools
4. Local community or single project energy-system tools
5. Other

Global and International energy-system tools

1. BALMOREL
2. EMPS
3. MESSAGE
4. MiniCAM
5. PERSEUS
6. RAMSES
7. WILMAR Planning Tool

National energy-system tools

1. 4see
2. AEOLIUS
3. E4Cast
4. EMCAS
5. EMINENT
6. EnergyPLAN
7. ENPEP-BALANCE
8. GTMax
9. IKARUS
10. INFORSE
11. Invert
12. LEAP
13. MARKAL/TIMES
14. Mesap PlaNet
15. NEMS
16. ORCED
17. PRIMES
18. ProdRisk
19. SimREN
20. SIVAEL
21. STREAM
22. UniSyD3.0
23. WASP

Island energy-system tools

1. H2RES

Local community or single project energy-system tools

1. BCHP Screening Tool
2. COMPOSE
3. energyPRO
4. HOMER
5. HYDROGEMS
6. TRNSYS

Other

1. RETScreen