This project contains the model code and input data for the following paper. Output result files will be available in Zenodo.
Tong, F.; Yuan, M.; Lewis, N.S.; Davis, S.J.; Caldeira, K.* Effects of deep reductions in energy storage costs on highly reliable wind and solar electricity systems. Forthcoming at iScience.
Contact information: Fan Tong, [email protected] Ken Caldeira, [email protected]
This is a Simple Energy Model that optimizes electricity (or electricity and fuels) without considering any spatial variation, policy, capacity markets, etc. Version v1.1 Last updated 2018/12
Python v3. cvxpy, version 0.4.11 -- python library Gurubi -- solver
See below for details.
The following is installation instructions for Windows 10 machines.
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Use remove programs to remove all python2.x programs. This uninstalls Anaconda2.
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Use remove programs to remove all Gurobi (Not sure this is necessary. I had Gurobi 7 and new release is Gurobi 8.)
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Install Anaconda3. https://www.anaconda.com/download/ https://conda.io/docs/user-guide/install/windows.html
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Install Visual C++ 14.0. Download and install software using this link. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools&rel=15 See this link for more information: https://www.scivision.co/python-windows-visual-c++-14-required/
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Download and install Gurobi. http://www.gurobi.com/documentation/8.0/quickstart_windows/quickstart_windows.html http://www.gurobi.com/documentation/8.0/quickstart_windows/creating_a_new_academic_li.html#subsection:createacademiclicense
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Activate Gurobi license. You have to go to this page https://user.gurobi.com/download/licenses/current to see what licenses are allocated to you. Click on the license that will pertain to your machine. A window will open up that will have some text like:
grbgetkey 2c8c6fa0-ad45-11e8-a2c6-0acd5117eeae
Copy that text and paste in in an Anaconda window. (You might start these Anaconda windows as Administrator just to be on the safe side.)
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Set up python link to Gurobi. Open up the Anaconda3 window as Administrator from the start menu.(Note this is a dos window, not a linux window.) And then type:
> cd /c/gurobi801/win64 > python setup.py install -
Install cvxpy, version 0.4.11. For python3, cvxpy must be installed with pip. They recommend making a special virtual environment to allow different versions of things to run on the same machine, but I just installed into my general space. Open up an Anaconda window (I did it as Administrator) and type
> pip install cvxpy==0.4.11
If this install fails on installing the ecos package, try the following line in an Anaconda window:
> conda install ecos
> pip install cvxpy==0.4.11
If you get error messages for not having (or having the correct versions of) ecos, scs, or cvxcanon, try the following command (Anaconda Cloud):
> conda install -c sebp cvxpy==0.4.11
This command should automatically download / install the right packages needed for cvxpy ("-c CHANNEL" specifies additional channels to search for packages; sebp is a contributer on Anaconda Cloud).
Check the installation with
> nosetests cvxpy
- Download and run python3 version of the Simple Energy Model -- SEM-1.1: https://github.com/ClabEnergyProject/SEM-1.1 -- Open case_input.xlsx in excel. Make the cases you want (by altering base case or ratios to base case), and then save sheet as case_input.csv. -- Open Spyder and then within Spyder navigate to the folder that was cloned from github and open and run Simple_Energy_Model.py
The following is installation instructions for MacOS 10.13 machines.
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If you installed Anaconda2 before, use remove programs to remove Anaconda2. You don't need to remove default python2 which might cause unexpected error
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Use remove programs to remove all Gurobi. Also, delete Gurobi license (normally under "/Users/$username/" if you didn't specify any location when installing)
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Install Anaconda3 for MacOS. https://www.anaconda.com/download/
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Download and install Gurobi. http://www.gurobi.com/downloads/download-center http://www.gurobi.com/downloads/gurobi-optimizer
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Activate Gurobi license. You have to go to this page https://user.gurobi.com/download/licenses/current to see what licenses are allocated to you. Click on the license that will pertain to your machine. A window will open up that will have some text like:
grbgetkey 2c8c6fa0-ad45-11e8-a2c6-0acd5117eeae
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Copy that text and paste it in an Anaconda terminal window. (You might start these Anaconda windows as Administrator just to be on the safe side.)
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Set up python link to Gurobi. Open up the Anaconda3 terminal window as Administrator from the start menu. And then type:
conda config --add channels http://conda.anaconda.org/gurobi
conda install gurobi
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Install cvxpy, version 0.4.11. For python3, cvxpy must be installed with pip. Open up an Anaconda window (I did it as Administrator) and type
pip install cvxpy==0.4.11
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If you get error messages for not having (or having the correct versions of) ecos, scs, or cvxcanon, try the following command (Anaconda Cloud):
conda install -c sebp cvxpy==0.4.11
This command should automatically download / install the right packages needed for cvxpy ("-c CHANNEL" specifies additional channels to search for packages; sebp is a contributer on Anaconda Cloud).
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Check the installation with
nosetests cvxpy
If you did not remove old Gurobi license and installed a new one, you might see error in this step. You need to delete the old Gurobi licencse and install the new one for your current Gurobi version
- Download and run python3 version of the Simple Energy Model -- SEM-1.1: https://github.com/ClabEnergyProject/SEM-1.1 -- Open case_input.xlsx in excel. Make the cases you want (by altering base case or ratios to base case), and then save sheet as case_input.csv. -- Open Spyder and then within Spyder navigate to the folder that was cloned from github and open and run Simple_Energy_Model.py