Update PRAS version used in ReEDS to 0.8.0

[sriharisundar]

Summary

Upgrading PRAS and Julia dependencies, moving Julia from conda environnment to juliaup installation based installation on Linux and MacOS, and updating to Julia 1.12+. With this change PRAS is installed from the Julia general repository and this should reduce installation issues with SSL etc.

Technical details

Implementation notes

We restrict Julia to a very specific version because of more flexibility just throwing a warning and not an error - JuliaLang/Pkg.jl#2296
Something to keep an eye out for.

Additional changes

Switches added/removed/changed

Issues resolved

#32

Known incompatibilities

Relevant sources or documentation

Charge code for review

Validation, testing, and comparison report(s)

New repo and installation procedures listed work on

• Kestrel
• Windows (@wesleyjcole)
• MacOS (@kennedy-mindermann can you please test?)
• Yampa (@louisaserpe)
• GH runners

Checklist for author

Details to double-check

• Charge code provided for review
• Included comparison reports for appropriate test cases
• Documentation updated if necessary

General information to guide review

• Zero impact on results of default case
• No large data file(s) added/modified
• No substantive impact on runtime for full-US reference case
• No substantive impact on folder size for full-US reference case
• No change to process flow (runbatch.py, d_solve_iterate.py)
• No change to code organization
• No change to package requirements (environment.yml or Project.toml)

Did you use LLM tools (chatbot or copilot) in the preparation of this PR? If so, describe how

Yes. I used copilot in writing the installation instructions for Julia but verified it myself and against Julia github installation instructions.

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[kennedy-mindermann]

I tested this on Mac and took the following steps to uninstall the conda version of Julia and reinstall via homebrew:

1. run conda env update -f environment.yml --prune
2. activate the reeds2 environment if you didn't already
3. verify Julia was removed by running the following command: which julia (nothing should be returned)
4. installed via homebrew: brew install juliaup
5. continued with the rest of the setup here

[louisaserpe]

I tested this on Yampa using the following setup steps:

1. Removed Julia from the reeds2 environment (machine has Julia installed)
2. Instantiate the Julia environment using julia --project=. instantiate.jl

The Pacific test case completed as expected.

[patrickbrown4]

We should wait to merge until we've confirmed it works on Windows, but otherwise it looks great; the explicit platform-specific docs are really helpful. Thanks a lot!

[wesleyjcole]

I tested this on Windows and it worked for me.