REMix: A GAMS-based framework for optimizing energy system models

Abstract

REMix is a framework for modeling energy systems of almost any temporal, spatial, and technological scale and detail. It can be used to model processes of extraction, storage, conversion, transfer and demand for any commodity, usually representing energy carriers such as electricity, gases, or heat, and to flexibly link them with each other. All processes can be characterized by indicators such as costs or CO2 emissions. The mathematical core of the framework allows integer and continuous decision variables and the objective function includes one or more indicators. Energy system infrastructures can be considered for both economic dispatch and capacity expansion planning along either single target years or full infrastructure pathways. Research subjects are usually regional to continental systems, and their transformation to a climate-neutral energy supply.