As our energy systems evolve, we need tools capable of accounting for flows of energy, data, and other commodities across sectors, with high spatial and temporal resolution. Macro enables energy system planners to design and analyze infrastructure plans for multi-sector systems, to support reliable, low-cost, and decarbonized power grids.
Macro (aka MacroEnergy.jl) is a planning tool specially designed for utility planners, regulators, and researchers who are trying to understand how electricity grids and other energy sectors might co-evolve given new technologies, policies, and ways of using electricity and energy-intensive commodities. By entering details about available generating units, projected demand, costs, possible new technologies, and potential policy constraints; planners, analysts and policy makers can investigate various options for the design and operation of future infrastructure that will minimize prices and maximize value for everyone. Macro is designed to make it easy for users to build complex multi-sector models and comes with a suite of decomposition and acceleration methods to enable very large models to be run on computational clusters.
Macro was developed at MIT as part of a philanthropically supported research project through MITEI, in collaboration with Princeton University and New York University.
