COPPER

Model developed

References

Developer(s)
Reza Arjmand

Description

COPPER (Canadian Opportunities for Planning and Production of Electricity Resources) is an electricity system planning model that co-optimizes investment in generation, transmission, and storage. It is a dynamic model with MILP formulation. It has a diverse set of generation technologies and considers power system constraints.

Applications

Electricity system planning studies and policy assessment.

Users

Researcher, policy makers and utilities

Key Inputs

Power system data, costs data, weather data, demand data

Key Outputs

Investment decisions, generation mix, transmission expansion, emission, location of REs

Registered developers

NameOrganization
Reza ArjmandUniversity of Victoria