From 0416c0405b6d17164c545ca2e7afc4bb9acd83a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Neumann Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:53:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update README --- README.md | 28 +++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 71d41775..eccaaeb7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,21 +1,28 @@ +![Version](https://img.shields.io/github/tag-date/pypsa/pypsa-eur) +[![Documentation](https://pypsa-eur.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)](https://readthedocs.org/projects/pypsa-eur/badge/?version=latest) +![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/github/license/pypsa/pypsa-eur) +![Size](https://img.shields.io/github/repo-size/pypsa/pypsa-eur) +[![Zenodo](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1246852)](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.1246852.svg) +[![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/PyPSA/community.svg)](https://gitter.im/PyPSA/community?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge) + # 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. +The model is suitable both for operational studies and generation and transmission expansion planning studies. +The continental scope and highly resolved spatial scale enables a proper description of the long-range +smoothing effects for renewable power generation and their varying resource availability. -![PyPSA-Eur Grid Model](doc/img/pypsa-eur-grid.png) - - -The model is described and partially validated in the paper +The model is described in the [documentation](https://pypsa-eur.readthedocs.io) +and 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. +![PyPSA-Eur Grid Model](doc/img/base.png) -Already-built versions of the model can be found in the accompanying [Zenodo -repository](https://zenodo.org/record/1246851). +![PyPSA-Eur Grid Model Simplified](doc/img/elec_s_X.png) The model is designed to be imported into the open toolbox [PyPSA](https://github.com/PyPSA/PyPSA) for operational studies as @@ -33,4 +40,7 @@ The dataset consists of: - 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 for wind and solar generators based on land use (CORINE) and excluding nature reserves (Natura2000) are computed with the [vresutils library](https://github.com/FRESNA/vresutils). +- Geographical potentials for wind and solar generators based on land use (CORINE) and excluding nature reserves (Natura2000) are computed with the [vresutils library](https://github.com/FRESNA/vresutils) and the [glaes library](https://github.com/FZJ-IEK3-VSA/glaes). + +Already-built versions of the model can be found in the accompanying [Zenodo +repository](https://zenodo.org/record/1246851).