EPIPPy

Expansion Planning Input Preprocessing in Python

EPIPPy provides a set of functions and scripts to preprocess data that can be then used in an expansion planning model.

Current capabilities

(Retrieval), preprocessing and management of:

• generation data (hydro capacities and flows, RES existing capacities, capacity factors, potentials, ...)
• geographical data (computation of countries and sub-regions shapes, manipulation of points, codes, ...)
• population data
• emissions (annual emission computation)
• load (yearly and hourly load computation)
• technologies (costs and parameters)
• topologies

Data

For EPIPPy to work properly, it has to have access to a database following a certain structure. This database can be downloaded here.

After downloading the database, the path to the folder containing it must be specified in epippy/__init__.py (to be updated).

Dependencies

• pypsa
• gdal=2.4.4
• pycountry
• geopandas
• geopy
• xlrd
• unidecode
• dask
• xlrd
• progressbar2
• openpyxl
• git+https://github.com/FZJ-IEK3-VSA/geokit.git#egg=geokit
• git+https://github.com/FZJ-IEK3-VSA/glaes.git#egg=glaes
• windpowerlib
• vresutils

Installation

1. Clone git
2. Add epippy to your PYTHONPATH
3. Install requirements in environment.yaml using conda