Land Use Trade-offs in Decarbonization of Electricity Generation in the American West

This Zenodo archive includes the code and data used to produce the publication Patankar et al. (2022): Land Use Trade-offs in Decarbonization of Electricity Generation in the American West. This analysis requires five types of scripts/modeling efforts that take in three types of inputs, as described below. The code for the GenX model is not included here as it is available at https://github.com/GenXProject/GenX with further documentation available at https://genxproject.github.io/GenX/dev/. **Inputs**<br> 1. Solar and wind candidate project area (CPA)<br> 2. Renewable resource profiles<br> 3. Real and routing cost surface data<br> **Scripts and Models**<br> 1. PowerGenome - Power system data compilation software<br> 2. GenX Power system model along with the Modeling to Generate Alternatives (MGA) algorithm<br> 3. Transmission network building<br> 4. Downscaling for new solar and wind capacity <br> 5. Land use analysis presented in the paper For information on the description of the datasets, scripts and modeling efforts, see the README.md file.