Land Use Trade-offs in Decarbonization of Electricity Generation in the American West

<p>This Zenodo archive includes the&nbsp;code and data used to produce the publication Patankar et al. (2022): Land Use Trade-offs in Decarbonization of Electricity Generation in the American West.</p> <p>This analysis requires five&nbsp;types of scripts/modeling efforts that take in three&nbsp;types of inputs, as described below. The code for the GenX model is not included here as it is available at https://github.com/GenXProject/GenX with further documentation available at https://genxproject.github.io/GenX/dev/.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;**Inputs**<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1. Solar and wind candidate project area (CPA)<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;2. Renewable resource profiles<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;3. Real and routing cost surface data<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;**Scripts and Models**<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;1. PowerGenome - Power system data compilation software<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;2. GenX Power system model along with the Modeling to Generate Alternatives (MGA) algorithm<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;3. Transmission network building<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;4. Downscaling for new solar and wind capacity&nbsp;<br> &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;5. Land use analysis presented in the paper</p> <p>For information on the description of the datasets, scripts and modeling efforts, see the README.md file.&nbsp;</p>