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Modular Energy Planning and Operations (MEPO) model

A GAMS/CPLEX model for generation planning, unit commitment, and production cost modeling.

Unique features:

• Native support for clustered generator commitment (integer rather than binary) for very fast execution
• Highly Configurable constraints. Can enable/disable indivdually at run time
• Same operations model used in both production costing and simulation

Getting Started

To get started with the Advanced Power Family of models please consult "User Guide-StaticCapPlan & UnitCommit.pdf" in the docs directory.

Licenses:

• Code: BSD 3-clause
• Documentation: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Citations:

If you find this tool useful, please cite:

For Planning applications:

[1]B. S. Palmintier and M. D. Webster, “Impact of Operational Flexibility on Electricity Generation Planning With Renewable and Carbon Targets,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 672–684, Apr. 2016.

[2]B. Palmintier, “Flexibility in Generation Planning: Identifying Key Operating Constraints,” in Proceedings of the 18th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC’14), Wroclaw, Poland, 2014.

Older, use [1] instead: [3] B. Palmintier and M. Webster, “Impact of Unit Commitment Constraints on Generation Expansion Planning with Renewables,” in Proceedings of 2011 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Detroit, MI, 2011.

For Operations only:

[4]B. Palmintier and M. Webster, “Heterogeneous Unit Clustering for Efficient Operational Flexibility Modeling,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 1089–1098, May 2014.