README.md

In joannranola/NARIS-kaleidoscope: R PLEXOS scenario visualization package for NARIS

NARIS kaleidoscope

NARIS is an hourly visualization tool that analyzes the production cost modeling results from the North American Renewable Integration Study (NARIS), a study aimed to illuminate possible power system futures and explore how the United States, Canada, and Mexico can collaborate to enable economic competitiveness and reliability as wind, solar, hydropower, and natural gas continue to grow. This tool utilizes NREL's kaleidoscope package.

kaleidoscope

kaleidoscope is an R package developed to visualize PLEXOS scenarios as packaged by the rplexos R package. The package provides three types of visualizations intended to be used as coordinated views: a geographic diagram, a chord diagram, and dispatch charts. The geographic diagram provides a qualitative view of the study domain representing individual generator output and interregional transmission flows. The chord diagrams provide a more quantitative view of the net interchange between each of the regions. The dispatch charts are stacked and grouped bar charts providing an instantaneous snapshot of the generation mix by ISO and scenario.

This package was developed to analyze data from the Eastern Renewable Generation Integration Study (ERGIS), a scenario-based study of four potential wind and PV futures and associated operational impacts in the Eastern Interconnection.

NARIS kaleidoscope example

Generation map

Interface chord and dispatch views

Generation map and dispatch views

Generation map (Generation only) and dispatch views

Generation map (Net Interchange only) and dispatch views

Generation map excluding Mexico

Interface chord and dispatch views excluding Mexico

Generation map and dispatch views excluding Mexico

Generation map (Generation only) and dispatch views excluding Mexico

Generation map (Net Interchange only) and dispatch views excluding Mexico

Instruction

1. Download the NARIS kaleidoscope package - NARIS-kaleidoscope-master.zip.
2. Unzip the package. This will create the folder NARIS-kaleidoscope-master.
3. Open the R project - naris_kaleidoscope.Rproj - in R Studio.
4. Open the R file - naris_app.R.
5. Go to lines 48 and 49 to update the start and end period.
6. Go to lines 54 to select the resource type (e.g., Solar, Wind, etc.).
7. Go to line 58 to include or exclude Mexico.
8. Run the R file by clicking the "Source" button.
9. Open the animation folder to see the results.

Further questions

Please feel free to email Jo Ann Rañola at [e-mail] for further questions.

joannranola/NARIS-kaleidoscope documentation built on Dec. 21, 2021, 1:16 a.m.