Macro

Macro 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 evolve given new technologies, policies, or 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 can investigate various options for the design and operation of future infrastructure that will minimize prices and maximize value for everyone. Unlike traditional models, Macro accounts for co-dependencies between industrial sectors and is designed to make it easy for users to build complex multi-sector models.

Macro was developed at MIT as part of a philanthropically-supported research project through MITEI, in collaboration with Princeton University and New York University.

You can access Macro here.