[LDES-coremodel] Cost regionalization in SWITCH

[Kenji Shiraishi]

Hi all,

I have attached the description on the cost regionalization in SWITCH which
we talked about below.

2.1.2 COST REGIONALIZATION

Costs for constructing and operating power systems infrastructure vary by
region. To capture this variation, all costs in the model are multiplied by
a regional economic multiplier derived from normalized average pay for
major occupations in United States Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs)
(United States Department of Labor 2009). Counties that are not present in
the listed MSAs are given the regional economic multiplier of the nearest
MSA. These regional economic multipliers are then assigned to load zones
weighted by the population within each county located within each load
area. Economic multipliers for the US portion of WECC range from 0.88 to
1.18.

Data for Canadian and Mexican economic multipliers are estimated at
1.05-1.1 for Canada and 0.85 for Baja Mexico. These values will be updated
in future versions of the model.

Best,
Kenji
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