The View Bar

The document describes the View Bar in LEAP, which allows users to navigate between different system views. It details the Analysis View for data and model creation, the Results View for customized charts and maps, the Energy Balance View for standard tables, and Sankey diagrams for visualizing energy flows. Additionally, it explains specialized tools for Cost-Benefit Summaries, Affordability Analyses, Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs), Decomposition Reports, and the Technology and Environmental Database (TED).

• The Analysis View serves as the primary interface for building the energy system model, utilizing a three-pane layout to organize data structures—including Demand, Transformation, and Resources—and to enter modeling equations that generate charts and tables.
• LEAP includes several specialized reporting views: the Results View for customizable charts and maps, the Energy Balance View for standard energy balance tables, and Sankey diagrams that visually represent energy flows from primary resources to final demand sectors.
• The software provides advanced economic and environmental analysis tools, including Cost-Benefit Summaries for calculating Net Present Value (NPV), Affordability Analyses to assess consumer costs against incomes for social justice goals, and Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs) to evaluate the cost and potential of mitigation options.
• The Technology and Environmental Database (TED) contains technical, cost, and environmental data for approximately one thousand energy technologies, drawing from sources such as the IEA, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the IPCC.
• Decomposition Reports utilize the Kaya identity and IPAT methodologies to analyze trends in scenarios, typically presenting the results via waterfall charts.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). The View Bar. https://cdn.leap.sei.org/help24/Views/View_Bar.htm

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. The View Bar. n.d. https://cdn.leap.sei.org/help24/Views/View_Bar.htm.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendview, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{The View Bar}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://cdn.leap.sei.org/help24/Views/View_Bar.htm}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }