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

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).