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An open source TIMES/MIRO app - introducing MIRO 1.1.0

Jul 3, 2020 MIRO Features Conference Report
TIMES is a sophisticated energy model generator implemented in GAMS. It has been published under an open source license in 2019. Recently, GAMS joined forces with experienced TIMES users to develop an open-source TIMES/MIRO App that serves as a frontend to the TIMES model. This was made possible by new features in GAMS MIRO 1.1
New and improved GAMS links for Pyomo and JuMP

Jun 15, 2020 Features
We’ve got some new links from Pyomo and JuMP to GAMS, which allow efficient interfacing of GAMS with your Pyomo or JuMP models.
GAMS MIRO 1.0 - Deploy your GAMS models in minutes!

Apr 21, 2020 Roadmap Features
We are proud to announce the release candidate for GAMS MIRO 1.0.
Free: Time-limited licenses for students or academic staff during the current Covid-19 crisis

Mar 24, 2020 News
With schools and universities shutting down globally due to the ongoing pandemic, some university students using GAMS in their projects have been locked out of computer labs.
UNSEEN - The successor of BEAM-ME

Mar 20, 2020 News
Energy system optimization modeling has become a key ingredient in transitioning to decarbonized energy supply systems based mostly on renewables. Yet, these systems reveal a growing complexity, e.g., due to the decentralization of infrastructures or an increasing variety of potential technologies capable of balancing energy demand and supply. This renders a reliable application of traditional optimization modeling techniques impossible.
GAMS COVID19 update

Mar 18, 2020 News
GAMS staff is working from home. We continue serving our customers.
Announcing MIRO 1.0rc

Feb 14, 2020 Roadmap Features
We are proud to announce the release candidate for GAMS MIRO 1.0.
Grid Optimization Competition Challenge I winners announced: congratulations!

Feb 14, 2020 Modeling News
Given the crucial role power distribution plays for the economy, and the challenges posed by renewable energy and increasing demand for electricity, ARPA-E is running the Grid Optimization Competition, which challenges participating teams to develop and test power system optimization and control algorithms on a range of different synthetic and real network models.
Good news: relaxed demo limits, and a new community license scheme

Feb 6, 2020 General GAMS Update News Sales
Some of you might have noticed that coincident with releasing GAMS 30.1, we have introduced some changes to our licensing model . Below we summarize what has changed. Demo We have changed the way we allow users to test GAMS (“demo mode”). We now require registration on our website and generating a demo license before using the software.
Phasing out of 32-bit support with GAMS 30

Jan 6, 2020 GAMS Update Modeling News
22 years ago, in 1998, we released the first native 32 bit windows version of GAMS. This allowed modelers to implement much bigger models than possible before. A year later, we introduced our 32-bit IDE (for those of you young enough to remember, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 98 were state of the art back then).

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Authors

Atharv Bhosekar

Aileen Boehme

Adam Christensen

Alexander Meeraus

André Schnabel

Bruce McCarl

Christophe Gouel

Clemens Westphal

Evangelos Panos

Fred Fiand

Freddy Proske

George Franco

Hans Lofgren

Justine Broihan

Julien Harou

Leonard Kunz

Logan Randolph

Lutz Westermann

Mohammed Basheer

Marius Bützler

Michael Bussieck

Mateo Gallia

Renke Kuhlmann

Robin Schuchmann

Steve Dirkse

Stefan Mann