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United States energy system optimization model
by Environmental Defense Fund
Authors:
Oleg Lugovoy
Contact:
Oleg Lugovoy
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United States Energy SYStem (USENSYS) is an open source capacity expansion model (CEM, also knows as Reference Energy System model, RES), developped based on energyRt package for R.
Based on R/energyRt. Using R for data processing.
[www.usensys.org Website / Documentation]
Download
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 Open Source
Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL-3.0)
Directly downloadable
Input data shipped
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| Model Scope |
Model type and solution approach |
| Model class
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Capacity expansion, Reference Energy System
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| Sectors
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Electric power
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| Technologies
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Renewables
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| Decisions
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investment
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| Regions
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US 48 lower states & DC
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| Geographic Resolution
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Administrative districts
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| Time resolution
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Hour
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| Network coverage
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transmission
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| Model type
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Optimization
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Linear programming
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| Variables
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| Computation time
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1-5+ hours"-5+hours" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property. minutes (Depends on solver used (glpsol/CPLEX/Gurobi etc.))
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| Objective
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Cost minimization
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| Uncertainty modeling
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Deterministic
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| Suited for many scenarios / monte-carlo
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Yes
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References
Scientific references
Reports produced using the model
in progress, by now: https://github.com/usensys/usensys
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