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This guide describes the Resource Analysis screens in the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP), detailing how users enter data on primary resource availability, fuel costs, and the automatic synchronization of resource trees with demand and transformation analyses.

The Analysis View is a component of the LEAP software used to create data structures, manage alternative scenarios, and enter modeling relationships and assumptions for energy and environmental analysis.

This guide explains how to specify and manage auxiliary fuels within the LEAP (Low Emissions Analysis Platform) transformation processes, distinguishing them from feedstock fuels and detailing how to handle 'own use' consumption and feedback flows.

The IBC module in LEAP utilizes linear GEOS-Chem Adjoint coefficients from 2010, which cannot account for non-linear atmospheric chemical reactions regarding PM2.5 and ozone. Health and crop impact assessments rely on concentration-response functions derived from North American and European research, with crop yield loss calculations specifically capped at 90 ppb of ozone exposure. Additionally, LEAP's deterministic nature means it does not inherently reflect uncertainties in emission factors or activity levels, requiring users to employ external tools or sensitivity analyses.

This guide describes the mathematical methodology used by the Stockholm Environment Institute's LEAP software to calculate stock turnover, energy intensity, and energy consumption for demand technologies.

This guide explains how the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) integrates with the open-source NEMO framework to perform energy system optimization. It details the capabilities for both partial and full energy system optimization, the costs and constraints considered in least-cost calculations, and the options for foresight modeling.

This guide explains how the LEAP software calculates and displays useful energy demand, distinguishing it from final energy demand based on device efficiency and losses.

This guide explains the 'Minimum Share of Production' variable within the Stockholm Environment Institute's energy-system-optimization tools, which ensures a specific process supplies at least a defined percentage of a fuel's total annual production regardless of cost.

This guide describes the 'Transformation analysis' functionality within the LEAP software, which simulates the conversion and transportation of energy from primary resource extraction and imports to final consumption.

This guide provides a step-by-step procedure for configuring optimization modeling within the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP), specifically focusing on the integration of the NEMO framework and various solvers to calculate optimal capacity expansion pathways.

This guide describes the Effects screen within the LEAP software, which allows users to view, edit, and manage data for environmental effects such as pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs). It details the software's default data sets, the ability to customize effects, and the process for setting Global Warming Potential (GWP) values based on IPCC Assessment Reports.

This guide describes the Cost-Benefit Reports feature within the LEAP software, explaining how it provides a comparative overview of incremental cumulative costs and benefits across different scenarios relative to a reference baseline.

This guide explains how to specify up to three pollution control technologies, such as SOx scrubbers or particulate filters, when providing environmental data for energy technologies in the TED system.

This guide explains how to display and configure environmental results within the LEAP software, detailing the options for reporting individual effects, Global Warming Potential (GWP), and the territorial accounting approach used for emissions.

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 'Extraction-Based Environmental Loadings' methodology in LEAP, an optional alternative to the standard territorial approach for accounting for emissions based on where resources are produced rather than where they are combusted.

This guide explains the use of the Geography variable within a software tool to allocate energy use and emissions across map squares based on specific geographic mappings and allocation functions.

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.