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Cornell University

Critical Infrastructure Systems Lab

Connecting climate, water, and energy

PowNet 2.0

May 2, 2024
The 2.0 version of PowNet is now available online. Main updates include:
  • Replaced pyomo with gurobipy –> faster, with lower memory requirement
  • Integrated the opensource solver HiGHS as an alternative to Gurobi
  • Largely revised the formulation of the constraints for a tighter optimization problem
  • Major changes and upgrades to the model architecture
We are now working on (1) additional optimization algorithms to make the model faster and (2) a deeper integration with hydropower system models. 2.x versions should be released in summer!