`USA_64zone_GTEP_case`

Case path: ModelCases/USA_64zone_GTEP_case Data path: ModelCases/USA_64zone_GTEP_case/Data_USA64_GTEP

Model Setup Snapshot

Setting	Value
`model_mode`	`GTEP`
`solver`	`gurobi`
`resource_aggregation`	`0`
`endogenous_rep_day`	`0`
`external_rep_day`	`1`
`planning_reserve_mode`	`0`
`operation_reserve_mode`	`0`
`transmission_expansion`	`1`
`carbon_policy`	`0`
`clean_energy_policy`	`0`

System Scale Overview

Metric	Value
Zones	64
Transmission regions	11
Existing generators	667
Candidate generators	830
Existing transmission lines	122
Candidate transmission lines	140
Existing generator capacity	1,178,149.1 MW
Candidate generator capacity	35,866,189.1 MW
Existing line capacity sum	209,348.0 MW
Sum of zonal peak demands	777,401.0 MW
Modeled time-series rows	480
Solved total system cost	$61,958,382,751.4

HOPE Results Summary

Note: this page reports HOPE run outputs only. Cross-model comparisons are omitted because input assumptions are not aligned.

Transmission Buildout Summary

Metric	Value
HOPE built corridors (MW > 0)	81
HOPE total buildout	521,234.2 MW
Existing transmission capacity sum	209,348.0 MW

Corridor	HOPE build (MW)
`z7-z35`	63673.0
`z8-z35`	59726.1
`z8-z48`	54833.2
`z7-z33`	48258.4
`z18-z46`	37987.8
`z18-z43`	29572.1
`z33-z39`	20798.9
`z47-z63`	18646.2
`z4-z43`	16972.0
`z9-z35`	14350.8

Generation Build Summary by Technology

Technology	HOPE final (MW)	HOPE new build (MW)
`WindOn`	443258.9	292119.1
`SolarPV`	187472.6	76590.7
`NGCC`	317250.9	0.0
`WindOff`	29.3	0.0
`Hydro`	76024.2	0.0
`Coal`	197052.7	0.0
`NGCT`	152777.6	0.0
`Thermal`	73900.1	0.0
`NuC`	99092.6	0.0

Network Map: Existing Corridors

USA64 existing transmission network map

Network Map: Optimized Buildouts

USA64 optimized transmission buildout map

Map notes: boundaries follow EPA IPM v6 regions; corridor widths scale with MW. The buildout map overlays HOPE-optimized expansion capacities from output/line.csv.