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This guide describes the Stock Turnover Analysis methodology within the LEAP software, detailing how to model energy consumption and emissions for both the transport sector and other energy-using technologies based on device lifetimes and vintage-based averages.

This guide describes the mapping functionality within the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP), detailing how users can visualize energy and environmental results geographically using MapWinGIS integration.

This guide explains the use of Lifecycle Profiles within the LEAP software to describe technological behavior and age distributions for device stocks across different yearly vintages.

This guide from the Stockholm Environment Institute explains the three methods for specifying process efficiency data within the LEAP software: percentage efficiency, heat rate, and percentage energy losses.

This guide from the Stockholm Environment Institute defines 'capacity credit' within the context of energy system modeling, explaining how it affects the calculation of module reserve margins and the addition of endogenous capacity.

This technical guide from the Stockholm Environment Institute explains the mathematical equations used for transport analysis within a demand technology framework, specifically covering stock turnover, fuel economy, mileage, energy consumption, and pollutant emissions.

This guide explains the role and functionality of scenario analysis within the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP), detailing how scenarios are used to model future energy systems and how data is managed through expression inheritance.

This guide explains how the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) performs integrated social cost-benefit analysis to compare energy system scenarios, focusing on social opportunity costs rather than financial viability or consumer prices.

This guide from the Stockholm Environment Institute explains how feedstock fuel shares and auxiliary fuels are defined and treated within the LEAP software's process analysis.

This guide from the Stockholm Environment Institute explains the use of the Sales and Sales Share variables within stock-turnover analyses, detailing how new technology introductions affect overall stock averages and the options for data specification.

This guide explains how to use tags in the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) to organize and filter data, particularly for technologies that fit into multiple categories or for long lists of processes in Transformation modules where sub-folders are not permitted.

A guide to the data pages of the Technology Evaluation Database (TED), detailing the interface for entering and managing quantitative technology data, including energy, costs, and environmental impacts.

This guide describes the Transport Analysis methodology within the LEAP software, detailing how energy consumption and environmental loadings are calculated based on vehicle stocks, mileage, and fuel economy.

This guide provides technical instructions for using the Integrated Benefit Calculator (IBC) within the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP), detailing the required geographic scales, data structures, and pollutant accounting necessary for the tool to function.

This guide describes how to use the Demand Costs data tab in the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) to specify non-fuel costs—including capital, O&M, and administrative expenses—for demand scenarios to support cost-benefit calculations.

This guide explains how the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) performs societal cost-benefit calculations by aggregating various energy system costs and comparing scenarios using Net Present Value (NPV).

This guide explains how the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) calculates endogenous capacity to maintain minimum planning reserve margins, detailing the process for specifying addition sizes, order of addition, and the use of supply curves.

This guide explains the dispatch rules used in the LEAP Transformation module when operating in simulation mode to determine how processes meet energy and power requirements.

This guide explains the 'Fraction of Scrapped Replaced (%)' variable within the LEAP software, which determines the proportion of scrapped devices that are immediately replaced by new sales.

The Technology and Environmental Database (TED), integrated within LEAP, provides comprehensive quantitative data on the technical characteristics, costs, and environmental impacts of approximately one thousand energy technologies to support analysts, particularly those in developing countries.