Optimizing Saudi Arabia's electricity transition: Renewable integration, storage flexibility and energy security under alternative policy pathways

Replication package (data and code) for the manuscript "Optimizing Saudi Arabia's electricity transition: Renewable integration, storage flexibility and energy security under alternative policy pathways" by H. Benlaria and M.D. Henni, submitted to Energy Policy. The package contains a multi-year linear capacity-expansion and chronological hourly dispatch model of the Saudi Arabian power system for 2025–2040, calibrated to official 2024 statistics from the Saudi Electricity Regulatory Authority (SERA) and the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT). The model co-optimizes investment in solar PV, onshore wind, battery storage (power and energy) and gas-fired capacity under annual build-rate constraints, and is solved with HiGHS via SciPy