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PyPSA-Eur-Sec Version 0.5.0
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@nworbmot nworbmot released this 21 May 10:43
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v0.5.0
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Please see the release notes for more detailed information.

This release includes improvements to the cost database for building retrofits, carbon budget management and wildcard settings, as well as an import bugfix for the emissions from land transport.

This release is known to work with PyPSA-Eur Version 0.3.0 and Technology Data Version 0.2.0.

Please note that the data bundle has also been updated.

New features and bugfixes:

  • The cost database for retrofitting of the thermal envelope of buildings has been updated. Now, for calculating the space heat savings of a building, losses by thermal bridges and ventilation are included as well as heat gains (internal and by solar radiation). See the section Retrofitting of the thermal envelope of buildings for more details on the retrofitting module.
  • For the myopic investment option, a carbon budget and a type of decay (exponential or beta) can be selected in the config.yaml file to distribute the budget across the planning_horizons. For example, cb40ex0 in the {sector_opts} wildcard will distribute a carbon budget of 40 GtCO2 following an exponential decay with initial growth rate 0.
  • Added an option to alter the capital cost or maximum capacity of carriers by a factor via carrier+factor in the {sector_opts} wildcard. This can be useful for exploring uncertain cost parameters. Example: solar+c0.5 reduces the capital_cost of solar to 50% of original values. Similarly solar+p3 multiplies the p_nom_max by 3.
  • Rename the bus for European liquid hydrocarbons from Fischer-Tropsch to EU oil, since it can be supplied not just with the Fischer-Tropsch process, but also with fossil oil.
  • Bugfix: The new separation of land transport by carrier in Version 0.4.0 failed to account for the carbon dioxide emissions from internal combustion engines. This is now treated as a negative load on the atmospheric carbon dioxide bus, just like aviation emissions.
  • Bugfix: Fix reading in of pypsa-eur/resources/powerplants.csv to PyPSA-Eur Version 0.3.0 (use column attribute name DateIn instead of old YearDecommissioned).
  • Bugfix: Make sure that Store components (battery and H2) are also removed from PyPSA-Eur, so they can be added later by PyPSA-Eur-Sec.

Thanks to Lisa Zeyen (KIT) for the retrofitting improvements and Marta Victoria (Aarhus University) for the carbon budget and wildcard management.

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