This release of openCEM includes the following changes:
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Technology updates:
- Added new entrant version of fuel based technologies to differentiate fuel cost from existing plant
- Aligned storage options to better align with ISP 2020 variants
- Included regional cost factors in build cost calculations
- Snowy 2.0 is now built automatically
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Database updates:
- Added ISP 2020 technology, fuel and demand projections for 5 development paths.
- Added latest demand and resource traces
- Added 5 templates to https://github.com/openCEMorg/openCEM_examples to access datasets
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Improvements:
- By default, result data is saved in parquet files for easier analysis.
- By default, csv summaries of output data are produced for easier analysis.
- Fine tuned constraint scaling to improve numerical performance
- minor bug fixes
Note: Use one of the templates in https://github.com/openCEMorg/openCEM_examples to run scenarios with this version of openCEM.