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The Impact Benefits Calculator (IBC) is a feature within the LEAP software designed to translate emissions scenarios into estimates of premature mortality from air pollution and global temperature changes. It simplifies complex atmospheric modeling, making it accessible to planners in developing countries by using parameterized results from the GEOS-Chem Adjoint model.

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 explains how to use the Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) to create inventories and scenarios for non-energy sector effects, such as greenhouse gas emissions, as a complement to energy sector analysis.

This guide describes the Results View in LEAP, a tool for visualizing energy and climate results via charts, tables, and maps. It details how to use dimensions, composite dimensions, and tags for reporting, as well as advanced formatting options like denominator variables, multi-level branch disaggregation, and the ability to save favorite charts for later use.

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 explains how to configure annual emission constraints within the LEAP software, specifically for scenarios utilizing least cost optimization of a Transformation module.

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.

The Scenario Explorer is a feature of the LEAP software's Overviews View that enables users to interactively test the impact of changing Key Parameters on scenario results using slider bars. It supports the management of scenarios, the use of tags for filtering parameters, and the ability to toggle 'mini-scenarios' via a multiple inheritance feature to explore complex climate mitigation strategies.

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 Stock and Stock Share variables function within the LEAP software's stock-turnover analysis, detailing the mechanisms for modeling how new technology standards affect the overall average values of a device stock over time.

This guide explains how to use the 'Insert Plugin from Folder' feature in LEAP to integrate standardized 'mini models' of sectors, subsectors, and industries into a user's model area.

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.