Luca Bonaldo

Research Software Engineer

Luca is a Research Software Engineer in the ZERO Lab and a member of the Princeton Research Computing department.

Luca’s work focuses on developing the GenX capacity expansion model and the MACRO multi-sector capacity expansion model and on providing support for the maintenance of the group software. Luca obtained his Ph.D. in the Science of Advanced Materials, an MSc in high-performance computing, a BSc, and an MSc in physics, and worked as a software engineer.

Publications

GenX.jl: a Configurable Power System Capacity Expansion Model for Studying Low-Carbon Energy Futures

Software, 2021

Aneesha Manocha, Filippo Pecci, Gabriel Mantegna, Jacob Schwartz, Jesse Jenkins, Luca Bonaldo, Maya Mutic, Neha Patankar, Qian Luo, Qingyu Xu, Sambuddha Chakrabarti, Wilson Ricks

github.com/GenXProject/GenX.jl

GenX is a highly-configurable, open source electricity resource capacity expansion model that incorporates several state-of-the-art practices in electricity system planning to offer improved decision support for a changing electricity landscape. GenX is a constrained linear or mixed integer linear optimization model that determines the portfolio of electricity generation, storage, transmission, and demand-side resource investments and operational decisions to meet electricity demand in one or more future planning years at lowest cost, while subject to a variety of power system operational constraints, resource availability limits, and other imposed environmental, market design, and policy constraints. GenX features a modular and transparent code structure developed in Julia + JuMP. The model is designed to be highly flexible and configurable for use in a variety of applications from academic research and technology evaluation to public policy and regulatory analysis and resource planning.