A professional-grade model of nearly every country on earth. Ready in minutes. Free.
VerveStacks compresses thirty years of model-building knowledge into an automated pipeline: the world's best open energy datasets, integrated, reconciled, spatially and temporally structured, validated, documented — and delivered as ready-to-run TIMES models for 190+ countries.
190+
countries covered with a consistent methodology
8+
global datasets integrated & reconciled — IRENA, EMBER, GEM, NGFS, REZoning, Atlite, UNSD, WEO
8760
hours analyzed per country for stress-based time resolution
Minutes
from request to running model — not months
The philosophy
Open Use: the meal delivered, not the recipe recited
Decision-makers and researchers need transparency, participation, and reproducibility. They do not need to become software developers. VerveStacks is closed workshop, open vehicle: every model ships with complete data lineage — every parameter traceable to its source and its transformation logic — with visual validation, and with full documentation. Judge the model by whether you can drive it, inspect it, and reproduce it.
How can this be free and good? Because it isn't hand-built. Thirty years of construction knowledge — the same expertise behind Veda, the EIA's global models, and KiNESYS — runs as an automated pipeline. When building costs minutes, giving models away stops being charity and becomes distribution.
What's inside every model
Not a starter kit. A serious model.
Real grid representation
Country-specific transmission networks extracted from OpenStreetMap, intelligently clustered; population-weighted demand allocation; renewable zones mapped to grid nodes.
Stress-based time resolution
Full 8760-hour analysis identifies the periods that actually stress the system — scarcity, surplus, volatility — and builds timeslices (1–600) around them.
Plant-level existing stock
Global power plant databases integrated at unit level, with vintage-based efficiencies and costs, reconciled across GEM, IRENA, and EMBER.
Renewable supply curves
Resource potentials on 50×50 km grids with weather-realistic hourly profiles, conservative land-use adjustments, and balanced portfolio logic.
Scenario-ready
Demand trajectories from IPCC AR6 pathways; carbon pricing from NGFS scenarios; technology costs regionalized from IEA WEO. Pre-loaded climate scenarios, explorable immediately.
Validated & documented
Base-year calibration against historical generation; hourly operational simulation to reality-check the time resolution; complete methodological documentation.
For users
Explore before you commit to anything
Browse country models and run pre-configured climate scenarios in the browser — no registration, no installation. See how a nation's existing fleet fares under five different climate policies by 2030. When you're ready to go deeper: download the model, modify assumptions, run in the cloud on Veda Online, and take your results with you.
For builders
The richest starting point you've ever had
Every VerveStacks model is also a foundation: nearly complete national datasets and a transparent, extensible model structure. The months of data assembly that once preceded every real question — already done. Extend it, enrich it, make it yours. Models are distributed through version-controlled repositories, so your work sits on an updatable base.
VerveStacks resources