WECC Grid Model

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.