Powersheds
Abstract
Powersheds is an open scientific software project for simulating river–reservoir cascades. It combines the performance of Rust with a friendly Python interface to model storage, pool elevation, head, releases, spills, routing lags, and power generation at hourly resolution. Designed for coupling with power-system models, simulations are driven by plant-level target power schedules and report realized generation after accounting for hydrologic and operational constraints.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Water resources management and optimization
Electric Power System Optimization
Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
Publication details
- Journal / source
- OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN