plutus
post-processes outputs from the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) to calculate the electricity investment costs and stranded asset costs associated with GCAM projections of future power sector energy generation by technology.
Zhao, M., Binsted, M., Wild, T.B., Khan, Z., Yarlagadda, B., Iyer, G., Vernon, C., Patel, P., Santos da Silva, S.R., Calvin, K.V., (2021). plutus - An R package to calculate electricity investments and stranded assets from the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM). Journal of Open Source Software, 6(65), 3212, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03212
Download and install:
For Linux users, install following libraries:
sudo apt install build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('JGCRI/rgcam')
devtools::install_github('JGCRI/plutus')
Metis
installationMetis
provides functions to visualize the outputs from plutus
. The installation guide for Metis
can be accessed at Metis Github Page.
plutus::gcamInvest
provides all-in-one workflow that reads gcamdata, processes queries, and estimates stranded assets and capital investments. Please visit the followings for detailed instructions.
plutus
is limited to GCAM v6 or earlier versions. plutus
currently is not applicable to GCAM-USA.
plutus
currently does not include rooftop PV in the output because GCAM does not track rooftop PV carryover in each model time period. We are working on updating plutus
to correctly represent new capacity installation and investment for rooftop PV.
The new investment and capacity installation output for each time period from plutus
are not on an annual basis. They are the total values during each 5-year GCAM time period.