ZEPHYR: Zero-emissions Electricity system Planning with HourlY operational Resolution

This repo includes just the capacity-expansion model (CEM) and production-cost model (PCM) portions of the full ZEPHYR model, available at https://github.com/patrickbrown4/zephyr.

Setup instructions

• To set up your python environment, navigate to this directory and run:
  • conda env create -f environment.yml
  • conda activate zephyr2

Sources

• Additional documentation is provided in the following reference:
  • [1] Brown, P.R.; Botterud, A. "The value of inter-regional coordination and transmission in decarbonizing the US electricity system." Joule 2020, 5, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2020.11.013