ModelsWest Africa
West Africa Power Pool
A nodal production cost model of the West Africa Power Pool, built from public data. It dispatches the fleet of the pool's member countries across the high-voltage network for every hour of 2027.
Scope
What the model covers
- NetworkSubstation-level buses and branches of the interconnected high-voltage grid, plotted at their real coordinates.
- Member countriesAll fourteen countries of the pool, linked through their existing and planned cross-border interconnectors.
- GenerationThermal, hydro, wind and solar plants recorded with their public capacity and fuel data, with every source logged.
- EngineRuns on OPEN-PCM, the Institute's open-source production cost engine: hourly dispatch with DC power flow, line losses, thermal fuel costs and wind and solar profiles, solved with the open-source HiGHS solver.
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