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The Python-based software with a Microsoft Excel-based user interface performs detailed carbon emissions and budget planning for the electricity sector at the level of individual power generators to reach targets for emissions reduction and determine the level of negative emissions technologies required to meet certain emissions reduction targets by a specific deadline in the future.
DECO2 (v2023) DECO2 (v2021)
Calculator Manual License details
Note.
Please download Model_Python file and excel-based user interface file to run the Pyomo code and get the results through the user interface
Model_Python file has the complete code of the software
If you make any changes to the data in excel file, you MUST UPDATE the code accordingly in Model_Python file.
In case of any problem with the update versions, please contact g.hameed@surrey.ac.uk.
2025
Edoo, N. U., Hameed, G. and Short, M. (2025) ‘Pathways to decarbonise the power sector in Mauritius’, Energy strategy reviews, 62, p.101930.
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Hameed, G., Wu, M., Cheng, X. H., Foo, D. C., Tan, R. R. and Short, M. (2025) ‘Optimal transition pathways to a net-zero power grid in the Philippines’, Energy Strategy Reviews, 62, p.101893.
2024
Hameed, G., Nair, P. N. S. B., Tan, R. R., Foo, D. C. Y., and Short, M. (2024) ‘Combining energy system planning with carbon emissions trading optimisation for decarbonisation of emerging economies’, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 53, pp. 889-894.
2023
Hameed, G., Nair, P. N. S. B., Tan, R. R., Foo, D. C. Y., and Short, M. (2023) ‘A novel mathematical model to incorporate carbon trading and other emission reduction techniques within energy planning models’, Sustainable Production and Consumption, 40, pp. 571-589.
Nair, P. N. S. B., Tan, R. R., Foo, D. C. Y., Gamaralalage, D., and Short, M. (2023) ‘DECO2: An open-source energy system decarbonisation planning software including negative emissions technologies’, Energies, 16(4), article number 1708.
2022
Nair, P. N. S. B., Foo, D. C. Y., Tan, R. R., and Short, M. (2022) ‘A software framework for optimal multiperiod carbon-constrained energy planning’, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 49, pp. 1177-1182.
Nair, P. N. S. B., Short, M., Foo, D. C. Y., and Tan, R. R. (2022) ‘A process integration-based optimal decarbonisation policymaking software framework’, Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 51, pp. 1603-1608.
Nair, P. N. S. B., Tan, R. R., Foo, D. C. Y., and Short, M. (2022) ‘A process integration-based multiperiod energy planning model for CO2-intensive industries’, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 168, 1188-1200.
Suhail, D., Ting, M., Nair, P. N. S. B., Foo, D. C. Y., Tan, R. R. and Short, M. (2022) ‘A planning tool for long-term enterprise-scale decarbonisation with carbon dioxide removal technologies’, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 94, pp. 439-444.
Tan, R. R., Aviso K. B., Foo, D. C. Y., Migo-Sumagang, M. V., Nair, P. N. S. B., and Short, M. (2022) ‘Computing optimal carbon dioxide removal portfolios’, Nature Computational Science, 2, pp. 465-466.
