In detail this means it has to run the independent scripts,
-`build_shapes` to generate GeoJSON files with country, exclusive economic zones and nuts3 shapes
-`build_cutout` to prepare smaller weather data portions from ERA5 for cutout `europe-2013-era5` and SARAH for cutout `europe-2013-sarah`.
With these and the externally extracted `ENTSO-E online map topology`, it can build the PyPSA basis model
-`base_network` stored at `networks/base.nc` with all `buses`, HVAC `lines` and HVDC `links`, and in
-`build_bus_regions` determine the Voronoi cell of each substation.
Then it hands these over to the scripts for generating renewable and hydro feedin data,
-`build_hydro_profile` for the hourly hydro energy availability,
-`build_renewable_potentials` for the landuse/natura2000 constrained installation potentials for PV and wind,
-`build_renewable_profiles` for the PV and wind hourly capacity factors in each Voronoi cell.
-`build_powerplants` uses [powerplantmatching](https://github.com/FRESNA/powerplantmatching) to determine today's thermal power plant capacities and then locates the closest substation for each powerplant.
The central rule `add_electricity` then ties all the different data inputs together to a detailed PyPSA model stored in `networks/elec.nc`, containing:
- Today's transmission topology and capacities (optionally including lines which are under construction according to the config settings `lines: under_construction` and `links: under_construction`)
- Today's thermal and hydro generation capacities (for the technologies listed in the config setting `electricity: conventional_carriers`)
- Today's load time-series (upsampled according to population and gross domestic product)
It further adds extendable `generators` and `storage_units` with *zero* capacity for
- wind and pv installations with today's locational, hourly wind and solar pv capacity factors (but **no** capacities)
- long-term hydrogen and short-term battery storage units (if listed in `electricity: extendable_carriers`)
- additional open-cycle gas turbines (if `OCGT` is listed in `electricity: extendable_carriers`)
