Releases · pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth

What changed

This is the second release of PyPSA-Earth that extends the prototype with more stable results. Changes are detailed below.

New Features and major Changes

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

Solved the issue of "overpassing nodes" and restyling osm_build_network: PR #294

Revise deprecations in build_shape: PR #315

What's Changed

This is the first release of PyPSA-Africa which heavily builds on PyPSA-Eur.

New Features and Major Changes

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
OSM is fetched into Powerplantmatching
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.
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