NREL's Publicly Available Energy and Economic Modeling Tools

Over the past decade, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has made several useful tools publicly available. In this presentation, I provide a survey of these rich datasets and detailed models of transportation, electricity, and the economy which have tremendous value to researchers. Two models with which I've had considerable involvement, the Scalable Linked Dynamics Equilibrium (SLiDE) model and the Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS), are presented in greater detail. SLiDE is an open-source computable general equilibrium model based off the blueNOTE dataset and written in Julia/JuMP. ReEDS is a publicly available capacity expansion model capable of detailed representations of the US electric power sector's operations and investments. I also briefly cover the Electricity Market Integration Suite (EMIS) model, the Jobs and Economic Development Impact (JEDI) model, the Renewable Energy Integration and Optimization (REopt) platform, the Renewable Energy Potential(V) eXchange (reVX) tool, the Scalable Infrastructure and Investment Planning (SIIP) platform with its PowerSystems/PowerSimulations module, as well as the Transportation Energy and Mobility Pathway Options (TEMPO) model. Speaker: Maxwell Brown