pypsa-eur/README.md

# PyPSA-Eur: An Open Optimisation Model of the European Transmission System

PyPSA-Eur is an open model dataset of the European power system at the
transmission network level that covers the full ENTSO-E area.

![PyPSA-Eur Grid Model](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/master/img/pypsa-eur-grid.png)


The model is described and partially validated in the paper
[PyPSA-Eur: An Open Optimisation Model of the European Transmission
System](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01613), 2018,
[arXiv:1806.01613](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01613).

This repository contains the scripts and some of the data required to
automatically build the dataset from openly-available sources.

Already-built versions of the model can be found in the accompanying [Zenodo
repository](https://zenodo.org/record/1246851).

The model is designed to be imported into the open toolbox
[PyPSA](https://github.com/PyPSA/PyPSA) for operational studies as
well as generation and transmission expansion planning studies.

The dataset consists of:

- A grid model based on the [GridKit](https://github.com/bdw/GridKit)
  extraction of the [ENTSO-E Transmission System
  Map](https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/). The grid model contains 6001
  lines (alternating current lines at and above 220kV voltage level
  and all high voltage direct current lines) and 3657 substations.
- The open power plant database
  [powerplantmatching](https://github.com/FRESNA/powerplantmatching).
- Electrical demand time series from the
  [OPSD project](https://open-power-system-data.org/).
- Renewable time series based on ERA5 and SARAH, assembled using the [atlite tool](https://github.com/FRESNA/atlite).
- Geographical potentials based on land use (CORINE) and excluding nature reserves (Natura2000) are computed with the [vresutils library](https://github.com/FRESNA/vresutils).


This project is maintained by the [Energy System Modelling
group](https://www.iai.kit.edu/english/2338.php) at the [Institute for
Automation and Applied
Informatics](https://www.iai.kit.edu/english/index.php) at the
[Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology](http://www.kit.edu/english/index.php). It is currently
funded by the [Helmholtz
Association](https://www.helmholtz.de/en/). Previous versions were
developed by the [Renewable Energy
Group](https://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/physics/schramm/renewable-energy-system-and-network-analysis/)
at [FIAS](https://fias.uni-frankfurt.de/) to carry out simulations for
the [CoNDyNet project](http://condynet.de/), financed by the [German
Federal Ministry for Education and Research
(BMBF)(https://www.bmbf.de/en/index.html) as part of the [Stromnetze
Research
Initiative](http://forschung-stromnetze.info/projekte/grundlagen-und-konzepte-fuer-effiziente-dezentrale-stromnetze/).


# Installation

See the
[environment.yaml](https://github.com/FRESNA/pypsa-eur/blob/master/environment.yaml)
library requirements.

# Script overview

See the description in the [Zenodo
repository](https://zenodo.org/record/1246851).


# License

The code in PyPSA-Eur is released as free software under the
[GPLv3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html), see
[LICENSE](LICENSE.txt).