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The guide outlines seven exercises for the LEAP 2020 software. It covers basic energy demand and supply modeling, the creation of baseline and policy scenarios, cost-benefit analysis, the inclusion of non-energy greenhouse gas emissions, transportation-specific analysis, and least-cost electricity generation optimization. The exercises use a fictional case study, Freedonia, to demonstrate how to enter data, use functions like interpolation and growth rates, and analyze results through tables and charts.

The document provides a step-by-step procedure for activating land-based resource calculations in LEAP, starting with enabling the 'Land-Use Change and Land-Based Resources' option in the Scope & Scale settings. It details the necessity of defining land types and regions, as well as configuring resource properties in the General: Fuels screen. The guide notes that enabling these settings reveals new branches in the main tree for specifying land areas and conversions, and that the available variables under the Resources branch vary depending on whether the user is analyzing wood resources or other renewable energy forms like solar, wind, and biomass.