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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 ########################################## Release Notes ########################################## Upcoming release ================ This part of documentation collects descriptive release notes to capture the main improvements introduced by developing the model before the next release. **New Features and Major Changes** * **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * PyPSA-Earth 0.7.0 ================= **New Features and Major Changes** * Generalize usage of SEG option `PR #1535 `__ * Added a hot-fix to handle UNSD data downtime causing CI to fail `PR #1653 `__ * Add an option to estimate solar-rooftop potentials using `GlobalMLBuildingFootprints `_, a simplified data is provided for tutorials, `PR #1629 `__ * Align PyPSA-Earth costs with the reference units used in `technology-data`, avoiding discrepancies when combining technologies with different original currency years `PR #1604 `__ * Add an option to redefine countries into subregions in ``cluster_networks`` `PR #1542 `__ * Added Section covering Optimization for Energy Systems Models `PR #1558 `__ * Add the configuration ``co2_budget`` to set CO₂ emission targets in multiple planning horizon years `PR #1553 `__ * Add pseudo `branch()` to streamline snakemake workflow. Replace this with Snakemake implementation if Snakemake >= 8.3.0. Added an option to configure which sector components to include which when disabled, irrelevant rules are skipped automatically `PR #1538 `__ * Extend functionality of isolated nodes to networks and fix to demand scaling when gdp or pop is empty `PR #1540 `__ * Redesign temporal matching including yearly, monthly and hourly matching `PR #1463 `__ * Add option to ignore loading network data in clean_osm_data `PR #1580 `__ * Add ll wildcard option 'l{factor}' to enable line-wise transmission expansion, including optional lower and upper bounds `PR #1592 `__ * Update ``build_natura_raster.py`` to function regardless of RAM size `PR #1545 `__ * Enable config options to customize hydrogen and renewable carriers for temporal matching `PR #1489 `__ * Revise CCL constraint and enhance it with an option to include existing capacities in the calculation `PR #1610 `__ **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * Avoid creating duplicate conventional generators by setting `keep_existing_capacities` to `false`. Convert CCGT as links in `prepare_sector_network` `PR #1630 `__ * Refine load shedding capacity calculation to use bus-specific maximum loads instead of fixed large values, improving solver performance and numeric stability. Rename load shedding generator carrier to 'load shedding' (now) instead of just 'load' (previously) `PR #1581 `__ * The configuration setting for ``focus_weights`` has been moved from ``focus_weights:`` to ``cluster_options: focus_weights:``. Backwards compatibility to old config files is maintained `PR #1565 `__ * Disable distribute_cluster only for one subnetwork and country `PR #1539 `__ * Reintroduce sanitize_carriers and sanitize_location to reduce the number of warnings related to components with undefined carriers `PR #1555 `__ * Fix the offwind depth calculation by providing the proper GEBCO file `PR #1559 `__ * bug-fix in ``clean_osm_data.py`` so that cleaned data has the same number of circuits as in the raw data and assumptions are correctly applied `PR #1552 `__ * Avoid using variable "nodes" in prepare_sector_network unless explicitly in the arguments `PR #1575 `__ * Fix and reactivate the option for a custom busmap in ``cluster_network.py`` `PR #1537 `__ * Create a section in the documentation to include information about custom data in the model `PR #1571 `__ * Bug-fixing override co2opt in add_co2_budget `PR #1597 `__ * Fix shipping and aviation implementation in multi-country models `PR #1582 `__ * Add geojson output to build_osm_network `PR #1611 `__ * Add missing colors for energy carriers in the sector-coupled model `PR #1625 `__ * Adjust default solver parameters for using HiGHS to improve convergence `PR #1650 `__ * Fix Labeling of technologies `PR #1644 `__ * fix workflow when augmmented_line_connection is false for Tunisia `PR #1677 `__ * Copyedit + fixes of documentation, PR template `PR #1675 `__, `PR #1674 `__ and `PR #1673 `__ * Update credits and cross-referals in the documentation `PR #1614 `__ * Add configtable for some sector parameters `PR #1494 `__ * Included a configuration option to quantitavely set the tolerance levels for simplifying GADM shapes `PR #1147 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.7.0 ================= **New Features and Major Changes** * Revise bundle_cutouts_northamerica `PR #1479 `__ * Revise pinned to locked environments `PR #1458 `__ * Update to `technology-data` version v0.12.0 `PR #1452 `__ * Add a command-line interface in ``databundle_cli.py`` that will be triggered if ``retrieve_databundle_light.py`` fails to retrieve all necessary files, providing a fallback to assist with debugging the issue `PR #1366 `__ * Add Wikipedia as a source for the preparation of transport_data.csv `PR #1410 `__ * Add a new page for sector-coupled tutorial `PR #1374 `__ * Add an option to redefine countries into subregions which can be activated at various stages of the workflow. The subregions can be defined either by the GADM_ID or a custom map. Currently, it is only used in the ``simplify_network`` rule `PR #1300 `__ * Drop duplication of retrieve_data and COST_DIR, add params and update technology-data version `PR #1249 `__ * In alternative clustering, generate hydro inflows by shape and avoid hydro inflows duplication for plants installed in the same node `PR #1120 `__ * Add a function to calculate length-based efficiencies and apply it to the H2 pipelines `PR #1192 `__ * Support of Linopy for Power and Sector-Coupled Modelling and latest PyPSA version `PR #1172 `__ * Update workflow to geopandas >= 1.0 `PR #1276 `__ * Index hydro units by their location and drop use of alternative clustering option for hydro `PR #1331 `__ * Introduce universal currency conversion to allow use of currencies other than EUR in input data and results `PR #1319 `__ * Introduce US-specific cost configurations and update to `technology_data_version` v0.13.2 `PR #1448 `__ * Add new hydrogen production technologies and reorganize existing structure `PR #1227 `__ * Add all cutouts to sandbox zenodo `PR #1688 `__ **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * Remove duplicates in environment file `PR #1473 `__ * Fix fallback logic for missing currency data by correctly applying the default exchange rate and build cache for storing commonly used exchange rates `PR #1492 `__ * Update code to reflect the Wikipedia source page for `prepare_transport_data_input` `PR #1486 `__ * Add efficiency gain and growth rates for other energy consumption and fill missing NaNs with 0 `PR #1468 `__ * Fix missing nodes in prepare_sector_network `PR #1432 `__ * Fix missing country attribute in cluster_network `PR #1443 `__ * Fix numpy TypeErrors `PR #1430 `__ * Update description of the sector-coupled capabilities `PR #1449 `__ * Modified how_to_contribute documentation page `PR #1439 `__ * Redefine h2export wildcard_constraint to allow digits + optional dot followed by more digites (decimals) `PR #1434 `__ * Update the AL_production.csv data from another source with more countries `PR #1428 `__ * Fix params for prepare_sector_network script `PR #1427 `__ * Add option to adjust load shedding costs `PR #1403 `__ * Fix: Use the mean value instead of the sum to remove duplicates in the urban percentage data per country and year `PR #1420 `__ * Fix prepare_ports script to generate both outputs if export ports with custom data is selected `PR #1424 `__ * Update the applications list for PyPSA-Earth model `PR #1413 `__ * Fix problem with a discontinued World Bank data source in prepare_transport_data_input `PR #1410 `__ * Fix bug in myopic run `PR #1369 `__ * Fix missing focus_weights on cluster_network params without augmented_line_connections, minimize warnings on subregions `PR #1348 `__ * Align structure of the components with consistency checks in the updated PyPSA version `PR #1315 `__ * Prevent computation of powerplantmatching if replace option is selected for custom_powerplants `PR #1281 `__ * Fix overlapping bus regions when alternative clustering is selected `PR #1287 `__ * Fix readthedocs by explicitly specifying the location of the Sphinx config `PR #1292 `__ * Fix lossy bidirectional links, especially H2 pipelines, which would sometimes gain H2 instead of losing it `PR #1192 `__ * Fix the need for administrative rights on Windows by changing all shadow directory settings for Windows in the Snakefile `PR #1295 `__ and `PR #1301 `__ * Add CITATION.cff to guide users on how cite PyPSA-Earth. Insert the DOI badge in the README linking to the very first PyPSA-Earth paper `PR #1316 `__ * Remove pyomo from cluster_network and introduce scip `PR #1320 `__ * Fix mixup of plant locations for hydro inflow and inflow overestimation `PR #1322 `__ * Fix namibia geofk, line country tag mismatch and minor fixes `PR #1330 `__ * Minor revision docker workflow to have it working on upstream `PR #1343 `__ * Fix the scaling factor for time-varying loads of the sector model `PR #1372 `__ * Integrate EIA data for US-specific CAGR and fuel shares for the sector model `PR #1372 `__ * Revise naming of Wikipedia data for vehicles `PR #1422 `__ * Monte Carlo: move qmc.discrepancy to logging only `PR #1418 `__ * Extending powerplant filter option to custom powerplants `PR #1465 `__ * Fix an issue with the GEBCO file by limiting libgdal-core<3.10 `PR #1519 `__ * Fix a naming issue with European cutout `PR #1530 `__ * Avoid adding CO2 pipeline links when option is disabled `PR #1504 `__ * Add possibility to overwrite cost attributes for sector model `PR #1567 `__ * Update team description in the documentation `PR #1670 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.6.0 ================= **New Features and Major Changes (24th December 2024)** * Include option in the config to allow for custom airport data `PR #1241 `__ * Added Dev Containers and docker as an option to get started with pypsa-earth `PR #1228 `__ * Add a list of PyPSA-Earth applications in academic and industrial projects `PR #1255 `__ * Computational improvements of build_osm_network `PR #845 `__ * Boost computational performances of set_lines_ids with cKDTree by scipy `PR #806 `__ * Boost computational performances of set_substation_ids using DBSCAN `PR #799 `__ * Boost computational performances of fix_overpassing_line `PR #807 `__ **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * Added electricity bus to Fischer-Tropsch in prepare_sector_network.py `PR #1226 `__ * Update BW, NG and BJ tutorial databundles to include gadm-like sources from geoboundaries `PR #1257 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.5.0 ================= **New Features and Major Changes (14th December 2024)** * Added capabilities of cross-sectoral modeling by merging with PyPSA-Earth-Sec model `https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth-sec`__ * The workflow configuration now supports incremental changes to the default configuration in the `config.yaml` and configfiles passed to snakemake via `--configfile myconfig.yaml`. Therefore the user may now only include settings in their `config.yaml` which differ from the default configuration. One can think of the new `config.yaml` as of a list of arguments in a python function that already have a default. So in principle the `config.yaml` could now be empty, and the workflow would still run. `PR #1053 `__ * Include option of endogenous export, which optimizes the export quantity based on price signals `PR #1201 `__ * Remove elec-based H2 and battery technologies before addition in `prepare_sector_network.py` script and fix bus names for links that models H2 repuspose network `PR #1198 `__ * Add electricity distribution grid with solar rooftop and home battery technologies `PR #1221 `__ * Include a dedicated cutout for North America in bundle_config.yaml `PR #1121 `__ * Include a dedicated cutout for Europe in bundle_config.yaml `PR #1125 `__ * Include a dedicated cutout for Oceania in bundle_config.yaml `PR #1157 `__ * Integrate RDIR into sector rules to store intermediate data in scenario folders `PR #1154 `__ * The computation of `hydro_profile.nc` in `build_renewable_profiles.py` is not differentiated whether alternative clustering is applied or not; the indexing of the different power plants in `add_electricity.py` is performed according to the bus either in case alternative clustering is applied or not and a `hydro_inflow_factor` is computed prior to the computation of `inflow_t` to split the inflow according to the capacity of each different unit of each power plant (if more units are present). `PR #1119 `__ * Use BASE_DIR in rules and `_helpers.py` script for facilitate module import in subworkflow `PR #1137 `__ * Enable sector rules import in subworkflow `PR #1178 `__ **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * The default configuration for `electricity:estimate_renewable_capacities:year` was updated from 2020 to 2023. `PR #1106 `__ * Fix the mismatch between buses and x, y locations while creating H2 Stores `PR #1134 `__ * Enable configfile specification for mock_snakemake `PR #1135 `__ * Removed duplications of devendencies in environment.yaml `PR #1128 `__ * Fix pre-commit docformatter python issue. `PR #1153 `__ * Drop duplicate entries in `AL_production.csv` data used in `build_industry_demand` rule `PR #1143 `__ * Fix bugs in `prepare_sector_network.py` related to links with H2 buses and bug of re-addition of H2 and battery carriers in present `PR #1145 `__ * Drop entries that contain non-string elements in country column of `CO2_emissions_csv` data in `prepare_transport_data_input.py` script `PR #1166 `__ * Local tests are now run with `make test`. This uses a `Makefile` which runs snakemake calls with different configurations. `PR #1053 `__ * Adds `Dependabot `__ to keep GitHub actions up to date. `PR #1184 `__ * Adds code security scans via `CodeQL `__ to CI. `PR #1185 `__ * Adds CI to update keep pinned environment files up to date. `PR #1183 `__ and `PR #1210 `__ * Revise ports data for export in `add_export.py` related to sector model `PR #1175 `__ * Restore string values of tech_colors in config file `PR #1205 `__ * Drop vrestil dependency `PR #1220 `__ * Include a configuration option to simplify / not simplify shapefiles based on a boolean value specified under `build_shape_options:simplify_gadm` option in the config file `PR 1138 `_ * Fix the mismatch between buses and x, y locations while creating H2 Stores `PR #1134 `_ * Remove duplicate entries from hydrogen export ports `PR #1233 `__ * Fix the environment placing a version limit to numpoly `PR #1237 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.4.1 ================= **New Features and Major Changes (19th September 2024)** * Add functionality to modify the cost assumptions using config files `PR #1097 `__ **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * Remove unused `countries_codes` argument from `load_GDP` function in `build_shapes.py` script, which was not being called as intended with positional arguments `PR #1069 `__ * Fixed problematic float parsing (`_parse_float`) in `clean_osm_data.py` to make sure all OSM lines are correctly accounted for `PR #1089 `__ * Fix minor bug for advanced csp implementation `PR #1076 `__ * Fix minor bug in `build_powerplants.py` where the gas technology assignment incorrectly introduced NaN values for all powerplant technologies. `PR #1102 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.4.0 ================= **New Features and Major Changes (27th July 2024)** * Improve Monte Carlo feature with more distributions types, independent by PyPSA component. `PR #930 `__ * Introduce flexible regional selection of the demand files of GEGIS. `PR #991 `__ * Generalize line types for AC and DC networks. `PR #999 `__ * Add an option to merge isolated networks into respective backbone networks by countries. `PR #903 `__ * Add an option to use csv format for custom demand imports. `PR #995 `__ **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * Minor bug-fixing to run the cluster wildcard min `PR #1019 `__ * Add option to adjust load scale for each individual countries `PR #1006 `__ * Minor bug-fixing to get the generalised line types work for DC lines and AC lines. `PR #1008 `__ , `PR #1011 `__ and `PR #1013 `__ * Minor bug-fixing for GADM_ID format naming. `PR #980 `__, `PR #986 `__ and `PR #989 `__ * Fix download_osm_data compatibility for earth-osm v2.1. `PR #954 `__ and `PR #988 `__ * Improve geometry filtering in clean_osm_data. `PR #989 `__ * Revise bus region definition by gadm. `PR #1001 `__ * Documentation improvements. `PR #1007 `__ * Remove unnecessary imports. `PR #1020 `__ * Resolve pandas deprecation warning. `PR #1023 `__ * Create files where the code outputs the value of the objective function. `PR #1033 `__ * Introduce versioning of the configuration files. `PR #1058 `__ * Fix bug for hydro inflow normalization for gadm regions (alternative clustering). `PR #1057 `__ * Minor bug-fixing for s_nom_min. `PR #961 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.3.0 ================= **New Features and major Changes (24th December 2023)** * Keep all traceback in logs. `PR #898 `__ * Function added in clean_osm_data script to allow the use of custom network data instead or on-top of OSM data. `PR #842 <'https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth/pull/842>`__ * Improve retrieve_databundle to prioritize smallest databundles `PR #911 `__ * Add functionality to load shapefiles for hydrobasins directly from the data source directly `PR #919 `__ * Use `new CC0 v1 dataset `__ for the natura input and automate download of WDPA protected planet data `PR #913 `__ **Minor Changes and bug-fixing** * Revise databundles and improve logging in retrieve_databundle `PR #928 `__ * Improve documentation on installation and short tutorial `PR #918 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.2.3 ================= **New Features and major Changes (19th October 2023)** * Add params: section in rule definition to keep track of changed settings in config.yaml. `PR #823 `__ and `PR #880 `__ * Fix Natural Gas implementation in "add_electricity" to avoid "Natural Gas" to be filtered out `PR #797 `__ * Improve network simplification routine to account for representation HVDC as Line component `PR #743 `__ * Remove deprecated pypsa.networkclustering approach and replace by pypsa.clustering.spatial `PR #786 `__ * Drop code-dependency from vresutil `PR #803 `__ * Add a check to ensure match between a cutout and a modelled area `PR #805 `__ * Support renewables or renewable expansion to meet a desired share of total load. `PR #793 `__ * Add NorthAmerican and Earth cutouts, and improve African cutout `PR #813 `__ * Bug fixing to restore Africa execution and improve performances `PR #817 `__ * Add Asian cutout `PR #826 `__ * Add a cutout for Western Asia `PR #837 `__ * Add osm_config yaml file `PR #822 `__ * Re-enable offshore wind and revise hydro `PR #830 `__ * Add databundle of cutouts for Kazakhstan for CI test `PR #856 `__. The bundle (~5MB) is used in pypsa-kz-data repository during CI tests. * Option to specify a global upper capacity limit (using existing BAU functionality) `PR #857 `__ * Add cluster options `all`, `min` and `flex` `PR #848 `__ * Add commit id of pypsa earth in the n.meta of the .nc file per default `PR #863 `__ PyPSA-Earth 0.2.2 ================= **New Features and major Changes (8th July 2023)** * Fix Natural Gas assignment bug in build_powerplants rule `PR #754 `__. * Add GEM datasets to the powerplantmatching config `PR #750 `__. * Add merge and replace functionalities when adding custom powerplants `PR #739 `__. "Merge" combined the powerplantmatching data with new custom data. "Replace" allows to use fully self-collected data. * Add functionality of attaching existing renewable caapcities from custom_powerplants.csv. `PR #744 `__. If custom_powerplants are enabled and custom_powerplants.csv contains wind or solar powerplants, then p_nom and p_nom_min for renewables are extracted from custom_powerplants.csv, aggregated for each bus, and set. * Fix dask parallel computations for e.g. cutouts calculations. Now again more than 1 core will be used when available that can lead to ~8x speed ups with 8 cores `PR #734 `__ and `PR #761 `__. * Add the usage of custom rules. Custom rule files must be specified in the config as a list, e.g. custom rules: ["my_rules.smk"]. Empty by default (i.e. no custom rules). `PR #755 `__ * Add trailing whitespace linter which removes unnecessary tabs when running `pre-commit` `PR #762 `__ * Add codespell linter which corrects word spellings `PR #763 `__ * Remove RES addition functionality from attach_conventional_generators `PR #769 `__. Currently wind and solar powerplants stored in powerplants.csv are added to the network by attach_conventional_generators. * Add functionalities to download and extract emission of countries. `PR #748 https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth/pull/748` PyPSA-Earth 0.2.1 ================= **New Features and major Changes (20th May 2023)** * Fix bug. Add graphviz to docs to compile workflows in the documentation and adapt release notes `PR #719 `__ * License change from GPL to AGPL as voted `here `__ * Fix hard-coded simplification of lines to 380kV `PR #732 `__. It is now possible to simplify the network to any other voltage level with config option `base_voltage`. * Fix a KeyError in simplify_links caused by misinterpretation of AC lines as DC ones `PR #740 `__. PyPSA-Earth 0.2.0 ================= **New Features and major Changes (7th May 2023)** * Finalize package restructuring `PR #462 `__ * Fix made in config.default and config.tutorial changing Monte-Carlo from true to false `PR #463 `__ * Add new config test design. It is now easy and light to test multiple configs `PR #466 `__ * Revision of documentation `PR #471 `__ * Move to new GADM version `PR #478 `__ * Update natura tiff to global scale, revise default databundle description and remove old limitations to environment `PR #470 `__ and `PR #500 `__ * Update docs on installation `PR #498 `__ * Update docs on tutorial `PR #507 `__ * Moved from pycountry to country_converter `PR #493 `__ * Fix workflow in order to solve the landlock countries bug `PR #481 `__ and `PR #517 `__ * Add meta data of config to pypsa network per default. Allows keeping track of the config used to generate the network `PR #526 `__ * Fix renewable profiles generation for possible data loss in ERA5-derived cutouts `PR #511 `__ * Adapt dependencies of powerplantmatching to the PyPSA main branch `PR #527 `__ * Calculate the outputs of retrieve_databundle dynamically depending on settings `PR #529 `__ * Fix shape bug in the Voronoi cell creation `PR #541 `__ * Adapt dependencies on PyPSA to the PyPSA main branch `PR #538 `__ * Fix None geometries into regions `PR #546 `__ * Swap OpenStreetMap python download interface from esy-osm to earth-osm `PR #547 `__ * Restore saving of logger outputs `PR #559 `__ * Techno-economic parameters of technologies (e.g. costs and efficiencies) can be now retrieved from a separate repository `PyPSA/technology-data `_ that collects assumptions from a variety of sources. It is activated by default with ``enable: retrieve_cost_data: true`` and controlled with ``costs: year:`` and ``costs: version:``. The location of this data changed from ``data/costs.csv`` to ``resources/costs.csv``. Adapted from [`#184 `_]. * Added approaches to process contended areas `PR #572 `__ * Improve parallel capabilities of build_shapes to enable parallelization even within a country shape `PR #575 `__ * Add pypsa-eur scenario management `PR #577 `__ * Minor bug fixing and improvements `PR #580 `__ * Streamline default configuration file `PR #589 `__ * Fix rule run_test, remove code duplication, add gitstars to readme `PR #593 ` * Add new build_demand_profiles.py. It builds demand_profiles.csv and allow easier interfacing of new data `PR #582 `__ * Upgrade technology data to v0.5.0 `PR #600 `__ * Update simplify_network and cluster_network according to PyPSA-Eur developments `PR #597 `__ * Revise OSM cleaning to improve the cleaning process and error resilience `PR #620 `__ * Fix isolated buses when simplifying the network and add clustering by networks `PR #632 `__ * Include hydro runoff normalization `PR #631 `__ * Add REUSE compatibility `PR #651 `__ * Fix bug of missing GitHub issue template `PR #660 `__ * Fix GADM bug when using alternative clustering and store gadm shape with two letter instead of three letter ISO code `PR #670 `__ * Fix GADM naming bug related to level-2 clustering `PR #684 `__ * Fix append bug in build_powerplants rule `PR #686 `__ * Add *zenodo_handler.py* to update and upload files via code `PR #688 `__ * Fix a few typos in docstrings `PR #695 `__ * Update and improve configuration section in documentation `PR #694 `__ * Improve earth coverage and add improve make_statistics coverage `PR #654 `__ * Fix bug for missing renewable profiles and generators `PR #714 `__ * Update instructions on how to write documentation. `PR #720 `__ * Enable workflow to run including countries with empty OSM data, test on all UN countries `PR #701 https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth/pull/701`__ PyPSA-Earth 0.1.0 ================= Model rebranded from PyPSA-Africa to PyPSA-Earth. Model is part of the now called PyPSA meets Earth initiative which hosts multiple projects. **New features and major changes (10th September 2022)** * Identify DC lines but temporary transform them back into AC `PR #348 `__ * Get renewable capacities from IRENA statistics `PR #343 `__ * Bug fixing (script retrieve_databundle) and rule run_test to ease testing `PR #322 `__ * Handling non-numerical entries in raw OSM data: `PR #287 `__ * General user experience improvements: `PR #326 `__ * Fix minor validation notebook inaccuracy: `PR #332 `__ * Make clean_osm_data script work with land-locked country: `PR #341 `__ * Add demand validation notebook for 2030 prediction: `PR #344 `__ * Revise build_powerplants with new version of powerplantmatching: `PR #342 `__ * Fix typo causing the wrong coordinate reference systems (CRS) to be used when determining available land types using CLC `PR #345 `__ * Add high resolution population raster via API: `PR #325 `_ * Fix bounds of cutouts aka weather cells: `PR #347 `_ * Add new countries and update iso code: `PR #330 `_ * Fix solar pv slope and add correction factor for wake losses: `PR #335 `_ * Add renewable potential notebook: `PR #351 `_ * Make cutout workflow simpler: `PR #352 `_ * Add option to run workflow without pop and gdp raster: `PR #353 `_ * Add latitude_optimal to get optimal solar orientation by default: `Commit 1b2466b `_ * Harmonize CRSs by options: `PR #356 `_ * Fix powerplantmatching problem for DRC and countries with multi-word name: `PR #359 `_ * Change default option for build_natura: `PR #360 `_ * Add renewable potential validation notebook and update others: `PR #363 `_ and `PR #369 `_ * Constrain rasterio version and add plotting dependencies: `PR #365 `_ * Change solar power density form 1.7 to 4.6 MW/km2: `PR #364 `_ * Bug fixing of unexpected float value in build_powerplants: `PR #372 `_ and `PR #373 `_ * Revise hydro capacities, add hydro validation notebook and minor revisions: `PR #366 `_ * Revise dropnan for regions: `PR #366 `_ * Fix bug in GADM clustering. Missing crs input: `PR #379 `_ * Optimise `availabilitymatrix` speed by factor 4-5: `PR #380 `_ * Fix bug in inline documentation for GADM and Voronoi clustering: `PR #384 `_ * Fix simple clustering enabling the creation of networks such `regions_onshore_elec_s54_14.nc`: `PR #386 `_ * Add transformer components which connect different voltage level lines: `PR #389 `_ * Enable the use of a float value for the scale in load_options: `PR #397 `_ * Add operational reserve margin according to PyPSA-Eur: `PR #399 `_ * Add optional normalization of hydro inflows by hydro_capacities or eia stats: `PR #376 `_ * Enable DC carrier in the network model and include converters into the model: `PR #392 `_ * Implement PyPSA-Eur improvements. Add gas limit constraints, add marginal cost sweeps wildcard, add and harmonize aggregation strategies, improve config usability by carrier clarifications, ease debugging by removing snakemake inputs from functions: `PR #402 `_ * Fix and add docs. Fix incomplete tutorial, recommend mamba for installation, add YouTube videos `PR #412 `_ and `PR #423 `_ * Restructure the package to ease readability and fix google drive downloading method: `PR #355 `_ * Update config links to adhere to the new structure of the package: `PR #420 `_ * Improve and finalize capacity_validation notebook: `PR #406 `_ and `PR #455 `_ * Fix hydro technology with the GADM clustering approach: `PR #428 `_ * Adapt for a custom shapefile for MA as a first step towards generalizing the feature: `PR #429 `_ * Improve line augmentation for network expansion explorations. Use k-edge augmenation for AC lines and random sampling for long HVDC lines: `PR #427 `_ * Fix minor bug in clustering about missing prefix assignment `PR #434 `_ * Fix major aggregation bug and adjust config: `PR #435 `_ * Fix nan techtype and wrong tech for nuclear which improves the representation of existing powerplants `PR #436 `_ * Add notebook to compare results by different solvers `PR #421 `_ * Fix overestimation of the network capacity by simplify network `PR #443 `_ * Fix output electricity column in clean_data `PR #441 `_ * Bug fixing to download global OSM and shape data: `PR #433 `_ PyPSA-Africa 0.0.2 ================== **New features and major changes (6th April 2022)** * Plotting and summary features: `PR #211 `__ and `PR #214 `__ * Templates for issue, PR, feature request: `PR #216 `__ * Attach hydro enabled with all hydro types: `PR #232 `__ * Parallel download of osm data: `PR #232 `__ * Decoupling iso coding from geofabrik; rule download_osm_data extended to the world: `PR #236 `__ * Rule build_shape extended to the world: `PR #236 `__ * Validation of geofabrik links: `PR #249 `__ * Generalized version of Data retrieval with google and zenodo hosting platforms: `PR #242 `__ and `PR #260 `__ * Fix random state for kmean clustering, adopted from `PR 313 `__ * Implement area exclusions based on land type using the Copernicus Land Cover: `PR #272 `__. * Flexible demand extraction for multiple years across the globe: `PR #275 `_ * Add CI caching and windows CI: `Commit CI windows `__, `PR #277 `__. * Change config to allow weather year extraction from snapshots as default: `PR #301 `__. * Replace Restyler by .pre-commit `PR #307 https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth/pull/307`__. * Solved the issue of "overpassing nodes" and restyling osm_build_network: `PR #294 `__ * Revise deprecations in build_shape: `PR #315 `__ PyPSA-Africa 0.0.1 ================== This is the first release of PyPSA-Africa which heavily builds on `PyPSA-Eur `__. **New features and major changes (24th December 2021)** * Include new data streams for Africa model * Demand data implementation from `GEGIS `__. Demand can be chosen for weather years and socioeconomic `ssp` scenarios * Network is built, cleaned and processed solely on `OpenStreetMap data `__ * Voronoi regions, where data is aggregated towards, can be replaced by administrative `GADM zones `__ * `Augmented line expansion feature `__ can make network meshed, connect isolated mini-grids to the main-grid. * Community moved to `Discord `__. * Most meeting and agenda's are `open `__. Release Process =============== * Checkout a new release branch ``git checkout -b release-v0.x.x``. * Finalise release notes at ``doc/release_notes.rst``. * Make sure thah pinned versions of the environments ``*-pinned.yaml`` in ``envs`` folder are up-to-date. * Update version number in ``doc/conf.py``, ``default.config.yaml``, and ``tutorial.config.yaml``. * Open, review and merge pull request for branch ``release-v0.x.x``. Make sure to close issues and PRs or the release milestone with it (e.g. closes #X). Run ``pre-commit run --all`` locally and fix any issues. * Update and checkout your local `main` and tag a release with ``git tag v0.x.x``, ``git push``, ``git push --tags``. Include release notes in the tag message using Github UI. * Upload code to `zenodo code repository `_ with `GPLv3 license `_. * Create pre-built networks for ``config.default.yaml`` by running ``snakemake -j 1 extra_components_all_networks``. * Upload pre-built networks to `zenodo data repository `_ with `CC BY 4.0 `_ license. * Send announcement on the `PyPSA-Earth Discord channel `_.