plutus

Plutus is designed for GCAM v5.3 (excluding GCAM-USA).

Contents

• Key Links
• Introduction
• Citation
• Installation Guide
• How-to Guides
• User Notice

Key Links

• Github: https://github.com/JGCRI/plutus
• Webpage: https://jgcri.github.io/plutus/

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Introduction

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.

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Citation

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

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Installation Guides

1. Download and install:

   • R (https://www.r-project.org/)
   • R studio (https://www.rstudio.com/)

2. For Linux users, install following libraries:

sudo apt install build-essential libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

3. Open R studio:

install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_github('JGCRI/rgcam')
devtools::install_github('JGCRI/plutus')

4. Metis installation

Metis provides functions to visualize the outputs from plutus. The installation guide for Metis can be accessed at Metis Github Page.

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How-to Guides

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.

• Instruction on plutus::gcamInvest
• Case tutorial

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User Notice

1. plutus is limited to GCAM v6 or earlier versions. plutus currently is not applicable to GCAM-USA.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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