Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) grid model based on GridPath (https://github.com/blue-marble/gridpath).
Capabilities:
- Capacity Expansion Model (CEM).
- Production Cost Model (PCM).
Spatial resolution:
- WECC Balancing Authorites (BA).
Temporal resolution:
- 4 investment periods (2025, 2030, 2035, 2040)
- CEM representative timepoints per period.
- PCM 8760 timepoints per period.
Grid Topology
- Transmission adapted from GridPath RA Toolkit (
https://github.com/MomentEI/GridPath_RA_Toolkit).
Industrial Decarbonization Grid team, the 2035 Initiative.