Nautilus use of the LEAP Tool

Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system (LEAP) software was been developed by the Stockholm Environment Institute-Boston with support from international organizations to meet the needs of researchers, NGOs and government agencies worldwide.

The Nautilus Institute uses LEAP as the primary tool in its Asian Energy Security Project to model energy pathways both on the national and regional level. Under the program, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Nautilus Institute has trained energy experts from Japan, P.R.China, the ROK, DPRK, Russia, Mongolia, Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan to use the LEAP program to create a dataset on the current status of the energy sector for their country. LEAP allows the teams to set priorities and create Scenarios for the future development of their energy sector. These scenarios include business as usual scenarios (BAU) where the current trends continue, sustainable energy development scenarios where the countries invest in sustainable energy, and max nuclear scenarios where countries invest in large scale nuclear energy development. These scenarios show the impacts of these different paths on energy supply and demand and the mix of different types of energy used in the country allowing their effects to be compared and contrasted.

Nautilus can also aggregate these national level energy datasets to create a regional model for Northeast Asia. This aggregated model can then be used to test the benefits of specific cooperative projects between nations and influence policy towards energy cooperation and energy security in the region.

• Japan WWF Demand Data (HTML version, Excel version)
• Japan WWF Transformation Data (HTML version, Excel version)
• Japan WWF Resources Data (HTML version, Excel version)
• Japan WWF Fuel Data (HTML version, Excel version)

• China Demand Data (HTML version, Excel version)
• China Transformation Data (HTML version, Excel version)
• China Reserves Data (HTML version, Excel version)
• China Fuel Data (HTML version, Excel version)

• DPRK Demand Data (Excel version)
• DPRK Transformation Data (Excel version)
• DPRK Resources Data (Excel version)
• DPRK Fuel Data (Excel version)
• DPRK Results (Excel version)

• Asian Energy Security Workshop 2007

• Asian Energy Security Workshop 2006

• Asian Energy Security Workshop 2005

• Asian Energy Security Workshop 2004

• Fourth Workshop on East Asia Energy Futures

• Third Workshop on East Asia Energy Futures Project

• Regional Collaboration for Energy Futures and Energy Security in China and Northeast Asia