COPPER

Model developed

Model Types

capacity expansion

optimization

Physical Scales

national

provincial

Temporal Scales

multi-year

Model Availabilities

Unknown

Sectors

electricity

grid

storage

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