Sustainable Energy System Analysis Modelling Environment (SESAME) is a novel energy analysis and lifecycle assessment (LCA) tool to assess the system-level greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the evolving energy system. This analytical tool provides a consistent platform for estimating GHG emissions for more than a thousand individual energy pathways.
The original version of SESAME was developed at MIT, but that open-source version is no longer actively maintained. The current version, with a convenient graphical interface and other new features, is maintained and developed by an MIT spin-out company, Sesame Sustainability.
You can access the open-source version of the tool, or learn about the commercial version at sesamesustainability.com.
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