v.2024

2024 release.

SWITCH-WECC v2.0.0

This release of the SWITCH-WECC model has improvements developed by the REAM team throughout 2021🎉 🎉 . Here's a list of some of the changes compared to version 1.0.0.

• Created new tools for the analysis, debugging, and visualization of model results (e.g. switch graph, switch compare, switch drop).
• Released accelerated workflow and scenario configuration via config.yaml files.
• Migrated to Python 3, SWITCH 2.0.6 and Pyomo 6.
• Improved and fixed critical modelling components (see REAM Model Changelog.md).
• Improved code readability (e.g. replacement of load_inputs() with the inline specification of input files throughout SWITCH).
• Improved modelling performance (e.g. 14x performance improvements via --recommended-fast).
• Created new SWITCH modules for enforcing technology capacity minimums (policies/min_per_tech.py) and enforcing wind vs solar capacity buildout constraints (policies/wind_to_solar_ratio.py).
• Created \docs with 10 new explanatory guides.
• Allowed for the analysis of locational marginal pricing by expanding support for retrieving and analyzing dual value.
• Expanded modelling capabilities (e.g. California only model, year-round time sampling, new hydro scenarios, new transmission scenarios, etc.).
• Created a framework for a safer and better-documented approach to modifying our database (see /database).
• And more! See the pull request history for more details.

SWITCH-WECC v1.0.0 (Python 2.7)

This release corresponds to the last version of SWITCH-WECC that uses Python 2.7. Future versions will use Python 3.