Mentored Project Ideas

Breakthrough Energy Sciences (BES) is actively developing tools to carry out realistic power flow study in the U.S. electric grid and thus support Breakthrough Energy’s mission of helping the world to get to net-zero greenhouse gases emission.

If you are new to BES, visit our website to learn more about our organization.

There is no shortage of work. If you have some free time and want to contribute to an open source project aiming at decarbonizing the grid, please reach out.

Getting in Touch

We are active on Slack and this is the best way to reach us. Join us by filling out this form, introduce yourself, discuss your potential project in the #ideas channel, and let us know if you have any questions. If you need to reach us via email please use sciences@breakthroughenergy.org.

Please review our Code of Conduct before joining the community.

Project Ideas

For new contributors, we have compiled some project ideas we would love to work on with you. Ideas for each repository can be found as issues with the good first issue label. Within each issue, we provide prerequisites along with a level of difficulty that should assist you in your decision. If you can’t find your ideal project but you have something else in mind that would benefit our open source project, let’s discuss it in the #ideas channel on Slack.

Also keep in mind when planning out your work that for each project we expect you to follow our Contribution Guide.