Latin America and the Caribbean face increasingly complex energy decisions: integrating renewables, expanding grids, incorporating storage, and ensuring a reliable and affordable supply. Open energy planning offers an opportunity to strengthen these decisions through mature open-source tools that are adaptable to institutional needs and backed by specialized support, training, and a global development community.
This Open Energy Transition session will combine an introductory presentation and a panel discussion on the opportunities these tools offer for the region. Drawing on experiences from Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, the session will demonstrate how these tools can support professional and reliable modeling. Global experiences will also be explored, such as the OET initiative with ENTSO-E related to the TYNDP.
The discussion will bring together technical, energy policy, and institutional perspectives to address implementation challenges and opportunities for regional collaboration. It will examine how these tools enable more transparent and reproducible planning, with greater autonomy to adapt models and strengthen local capacities.
