Welcome to GridPath

GridPath is a versatile power-system planning platform capable of a range of planning approaches including production-cost, capacity-expansion, asset-valuation, and reliability modeling.

Documentation

GridPath's documentation is hosted on Read the Docs.

Installation

Python

GridPath is tested on Python 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11. Get one of those Python versions here.

GridPath Python environment

You should create a Python environment for your GridPath installation, e.g. via venv, a lightweight environment manager that is part of the standard Python distribution. Make sure to create activate the environment before installing GridPath.

Install GridPath from PyPi

Once you have created and activated the GridPath Python environment, you can install the latest version of GridPath from PyPi with:

pip install GridPath

Install GridPath from source

You can alternatively download the GridPath source code and install from source.

pip install .[all]

NOTE: If you plan to edit the GridPath code, you should install with the -e flag.