Releases¶
Major stable releases:
Dispa-SET v2.5
Changelog¶
Version 2.5¶
New
- Fuels/Technologies
AIR, AMO, WHT
WAVE, WHEN, GETH, HOBO, SOTH, ABHP, ASHP, GSHP, HYHP, REHE, WSHP
- GIS
Added ability to load geographic coordinates of indivdual zones inside config file (currently only applicable for electricity). An example file can be found inside the test directory
- Heating sector
Added Heating zones analogue to electricity zones
Demand in each zone can now be covered by multiple units
Added Heat only generation technologies to the mix
Thermal storage can be attached directly to a unit or used as a standalone technology
Heating sector dispatch plots
Heat sector installed capacity and anual generation plot
- Reserves
Added three new reserve forcasting methods: Exogenous, Percentage and Probablistic
CHP and power to heat units can now provide reserves
- Hydrogen sector
Added new hydrogen technologies
H2 zones designed analoguos to the heating sector (i.e. one demand per H2 node and multiple technologies patricipating to the same H2 market)
- Water-energy nexus
Water consumption and water withdrawal parameters used by the cooling systems inside the thermal generators are added to the database. These indicators are useful for the assessment of the water-energy nexus.
- RES curtailment
RES curtailment is now an optimization variable
Curtailment cost can be specified in the cinfig file. If the cost is > 0 EUR/MWh and there is some curtailment, shadow prices will be negative (this alligns closer to the real world markets where exces wind generation results in negative market clearing prices)
- New model outputs (i.e. Results)
OutputCurtailedHeat, OutputCurtailedPower - Hourly time series of curtailments
ShadowPrice_2U, ShadowPrice_2D, ShadowPrice_3U - Hourly timeseries of balancing prices
HeatShadowPrice, OutputH2ShadowPrice - Hourly timeseries of heat and H2 prices
StorageShadowPrice - Hourly timeseries of storage prices (i.e. intra temporal price of the next MWh dispatched by the storage units)
OutputPtLDemand, OutputH2Output - Hourly timeseries of the Power to liquid demand (fixed anual value distributed to hourly values through MTS) and Power output of H2 units
OutputReserve_2U, OutputReserve_2D, OutputReserve_3U - Hourly timeseries of the power reserved for the balancing
ShadowPrice_RampUp_TC, ShadowPrice_RampDown_TC - Hourly timeseries of ramping costs (i.e. if dispatchable unit needs to be switched on/off the price would reflect the start-up shut-down costs specified in the power plants database)
OutputRampRate - Hourly timeseries of ramping rates
OutputStartUp, OutputShutDown - Hourly timeseries of start-up and shut-down events (i.e. if one powerplant has several Nunits of which 2 are switched on or 7 are switched off this number would be visible here)
OutputCostStartUpH, OutputCostRampUpH - Hourly timseries of startup and tamping costs
OutputEmissions - Hourly timseries of zonal CO2 intesity (i.e. value will be >0 if fossil generators are on and 0 if demand is 100% satisfied by the RES)
OutputStorageSlack - Unsatisifed minimum storage constraint at the end of the optimization horizon (one value per horizon)
- Post-processing
(plot_zone) New fuel/technology-types added to the plots (color codes are now slightly improved)
(plot_zone) Power consumption and storage charging (storage input) added to the energy generation plots. This gives us more insigts into energy conversion/transmission
(plot_zone) Added generation share plot (i.e. expressed in terms of % rather than absolute values)
(plot_zone_capacities) Peak power consumption line added to the installed capacities plot. This gives us more insights into sector-coupling links
(plot_tech_cap) Added installed storage capacity plot. It shows how much storage capacity is located in individual zones
(plot_co2) Added CO2 intensity violin plots. It provides insights into the distribution of CO2 intensity inisde individual zones
(plot_power_flow_tracing_matrix) Added power flow tracing matrix. Indication of local generation and exports to neighboring ones
(plot_net_flows_map) Added power feed plot. Indication of net importing/exporting zones (WRNING! this plots take a while to generate. Sometimes Stamen server is timed out and background pictures are not loaded properly resulting in “http.client.IncompleteRead: IncompleteRead(xxxxx bytes read, yyyy more expected)”. Currently the only way to fix this is to try the plotting function at a later point in time.
(plot_line_congestion_map) Added line congestion plot. Indication of the congested lines and directions (i.e. line between Z1 and ZZ3 is congested 60% of the time, meaning that Flow/MaxFLow = 1)
(get_result_analysis) Added a more detailed statistical system representation such as Total and peak/max values for individual variables of intrest,
(get_result_analysis) Added a more detailed statistical zonal representation same as above but filtered by zone and summarized under ZoneData
(get_result_analysis) Added a more detailed statistical unit representation same as above but filtered by units and summarized under UnitData
(get_result_analysis) Added a more detailed statistical fuel representation same as above but filtered by fuel and summarized under FuelData
(get_result_analysis) Added water consumption which can be filtered on per Zone/Unit level and is summarized under WaterConsumptionData
(get_result_analysis) Added a more detailed storage analysis summarized under StorageData
Bugfixes
- Variable time step
The pre-processing and the GAMS file have been updated to handle different time steps (not only one hour)
This is currently restricted to three time steps: 15min, 1h, 24h
The input data whose time step is lower than the desired one is averaged
- Miscellaneous
Improved error handling
Version 2.4¶
- Mid-term scheduling
The yearly storage level profiles can now be calculated internally (i.e. without providing exogenous profiles).
A first, simplified version of dispa-set is run over a whole year to generate these profiles during the pre-processing phase
This option is activated in the config file and is transparent for the user.
- Flexible Demand:
To model demand-side management, it is now possible to define a share of the demand curve as “flexible”
In this flexible demand, the load can be shifted from one hour to the other
The maximum flexibility is characterized by the equivalent number of storage hours for the shifted load, which is defined as parameter in the configuration file.
- Power-to-heat units
P2HT units (heat pumps, electrical heater) have now been added
They are coupled to a heat demand and possibly to a thermal storage capacity
COP can be defined as temperature-dependent. An additional input with temperature times for each zone has been defined.
Transmission prices have been added to the pre-processing and can now be fully parametrized
Fuel Prices can now be country-specific
Input data in the csv files can now be defined with time stamps from any year or with a numerical index
- Post-processing:
Improved dispatch plot with shifted, shed loads and electricity consumption from P2HT units
Storage levels are now differentiated by technology
- Miscellaneous:
Multiple bug fixes, code improvement and usability improvement.
All config files and the example scripts have been checked and cleaned
New formulation of the clustering function with significant simulation time improvements
The Pyomo version of Dispa-SET has now been removed since it was no longer up-to-date
The end-of horizon reservoir level is no longer a firm constraint. A water value can be defined to impose a price on the unmet level requirements.
Excel configuration files are now subject to versioning, which ensures backward compatibility with older configuration files.
Countries are now renamed into “zones” in all API functions.
The option to cache csv file data when loading has been removed
Implemented a more robust versioning system
Version 2.3¶
- Input Data:
A complete EU dataset has been included to the repository for the year 2016.
More information: Dispa-SET for the EU28.
- Reformulation of the reserve constraints:
Secondary reserves are now covered by spinning units only.
Tertirary reserves can also be covered by quick start units.
In total, three different reserve markets are now considered: Secondary up; Secondary down; and Tertiary up
- Implementation of a new formulation (integer clustering) for power plant related constraints. This formulation divides the simulation time by a factor higher than 10 and allows extending the geographical scope of Dispa-SET. There are now four standard model formulations, which can be run with the same input data:
Standard formulation: low capacity or highly flexible units are merged
No clustring: all units are considered individually
LP clustering: all units are aggregated by technology and binary constraints are removed
Integer clustering: a representative unit is considered for each technology and multiplied N times.
- Improved pre-processing:
Improved log message during input data checks
New config files to test the different clustering methods
Added functions to perform parametric studies
Example scripts for Monte Carlo analyses using lating hypercube samplings
- Improved post-processing:
Netting interconnections in dispatch plots
New colour palette and polished dispatch plot
New fuels included
Improved representation of curtailment
- External dependencies:
Removed pre-compiled libraries for unix systems
Use of the low-level GAMS API (https://github.com/kavvkon/gams-api)
- Python 3.7:
Dispa-SET now runs exclusively on Python 3.7.
The compatibility with previous Python versions (2.7, 3.6) is not guaranteed anymore.
- Miscellaneous:
Unit tests on travis (https://travis-ci.org/energy-modelling-toolkit/Dispa-SET)
Bug fixes
Version 2.2¶
Inclusion of CHP, power2heat and thermal storage (these new features can be tested by running the config file for Cyprus: ‘ConfigFiles/ConfigCY.xlsx’)
Bug fixes
Improved user interface
Version 2.1¶
Major refactoring of the folder structure
New data included in the database
Inclusion of the LP formulation (in addition to the MILP)
Version 2.0¶
First public version of the Dispa-SET model.