2.0.0

After nearly 18 months of development and 464 PRs, we are pleased to announce the first release of the all-new MUSE2 🎉! A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this amazing milestone.

MUSE2 is a tool written in Rust for running simulations of energy systems, which is planned to be the eventual successor to the original MUSE. Note that this is a completely new project written from scratch, with both the code and the model underlying it redesigned from the ground up to be simpler and faster. By design, we do not wish to add every feature that MUSE1 has, but we hope to eventually support all the common use cases for those who run these types of models.

As there are some important features still missing from MUSE2 (e.g. #794, #509), we do not recommend that you attempt to use it for research at this stage. However, please do give it a spin! If there are any features missing that you feel are important, let us know by opening an issue.

It is rather unusual to have the first release of a piece of software be 2.0.0. The reason for this is to avoid confusion with the previous MUSE program. Be aware that this project does not follow semantic versioning.

To get started, you can download MUSE2 for your platform below. For more information, please consult the documentation.