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Tutorial
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Before getting started with **PyPSA-Eur** it makes sense to be familiar
with its general modelling framework `PyPSA `__.
Running the tutorial requires limited computational resources compared to the full model,
which allows the user to explore most of its functionalities on a local machine.
It takes approximately five minutes to complete and
requires 3 GB of memory along with 1 GB free disk space.
If not yet completed, follow the :ref:`installation` steps first.
The tutorial will cover examples on how to
- configure and customise the PyPSA-Eur model and
- run the ``snakemake`` workflow step by step from network creation to the solved network.
The configuration of the tutorial is included in the ``config.tutorial.yaml``.
To run the tutorial, use this as your configuration file ``config.yaml``.
.. code:: bash
.../pypsa-eur % cp config.tutorial.yaml config.yaml
This configuration is set to download a reduced data set via the rules :mod:`retrieve_databundle`,
:mod:`retrieve_natura_raster`, :mod:`retrieve_cutout` totalling at less than 250 MB.
The full set of data dependencies would take 5.3 GB.
For more information on the data dependencies of PyPSA-Eur, continue reading :ref:`data`.
How to customise PyPSA-Eur?
===========================
The model can be adapted to only include selected countries (e.g. Belgium) instead of all European countries to limit the spatial scope.
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: countries:
:end-before: snapshots:
Likewise, the example's temporal scope can be restricted (e.g. to a single month).
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: snapshots:
:end-before: enable:
It is also possible to allow less or more carbon-dioxide emissions. Here, we limit the emissions of Germany 100 Megatonnes per year.
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: electricity:
:end-before: exentable_carriers:
PyPSA-Eur also includes a database of existing conventional powerplants.
We can select which types of powerplants we like to be included:
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: extendable_carriers:
:end-before: max_hours:
To accurately model the temporal and spatial availability of renewables such as wind and solar energy, we rely on historical weather data.
It is advisable to adapt the required range of coordinates to the selection of countries.
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: atlite:
:end-before: renewable:
We can also decide which weather data source should be used to calculate potentials and capacity factor time-series for each carrier.
For example, we may want to use the ERA-5 dataset for solar and not the default SARAH-2 dataset.
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: be-03-2013-era5:
:end-at: module:
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: solar:
:end-at: cutout:
Finally, it is possible to pick a solver. For instance, this tutorial uses the open-source solvers CBC and Ipopt and does not rely
on the commercial solvers Gurobi or CPLEX (for which free academic licenses are available).
.. literalinclude:: ../config.tutorial.yaml
:language: yaml
:start-at: solver:
:end-before: plotting:
.. note::
To run the tutorial, either install CBC and Ipopt (see instructions for :ref:`installation`).
Alternatively, choose another installed solver in the ``config.yaml`` at ``solving: solver:``.
Note, that we only focus on changes relative to the default configuration.
There are many more configuration options, which are documented at :ref:`config`.
How to use the ``snakemake`` rules?
===================================
Open a terminal, go into the PyPSA-Eur directory, and activate the ``pypsa-eur`` environment with
.. code:: bash
.../pypsa-eur % conda activate pypsa-eur
Let's say based on the modifications above we would like to solve a very simplified model
clustered down to 6 buses and every 24 hours aggregated to one snapshot. The command
.. code:: bash
.../pypsa-eur % snakemake -j 1 results/networks/elec_s_6_ec_lcopt_Co2L-24H.nc
orders ``snakemake`` to run the script ``solve_network`` that produces the solved network and stores it in ``.../pypsa-eur/results/networks`` with the name ``elec_s_6_ec_lcopt_Co2L-24H.nc``:
.. literalinclude:: ../Snakefile
:start-at: rule solve_network:
:end-before: rule solve_operations_network:
This triggers a workflow of multiple preceding jobs that depend on each rule's inputs and outputs:
.. graphviz::
:align: center
digraph snakemake_dag {
graph[bgcolor=white, margin=0];
node[shape=box, style=rounded, fontname=sans, fontsize=10, penwidth=2];
edge[penwidth=2, color=grey];
0[label = "solve_network", color = "0.10 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
1[label = "prepare_network\nll: copt\nopts: Co2L-24H", color = "0.13 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
2[label = "cluster_network\nclusters: 6", color = "0.51 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
3[label = "simplify_network\nnetwork: elec\nsimpl: ", color = "0.00 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
4[label = "add_electricity", color = "0.60 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
5[label = "build_bus_regions", color = "0.19 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
6[label = "base_network", color = "0.38 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
7[label = "build_shapes", color = "0.03 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
8[label = "build_renewable_profiles\ntechnology: onwind", color = "0.48 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
9[label = "build_renewable_profiles\ntechnology: offwind-ac", color = "0.48 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
10[label = "build_renewable_profiles\ntechnology: offwind-dc", color = "0.48 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
11[label = "build_renewable_profiles\ntechnology: solar", color = "0.48 0.6 0.85", style="rounded"];
12[label = "build_cutout\ncutout: europe-2013-era5", color = "0.35 0.6 0.85", style="rounded,dashed"];
1 -> 0
2 -> 1
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}
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In the terminal, this will show up as a list of jobs to be run:
.. code:: bash
Building DAG of jobs...
Job stats:
job count min threads max threads
------------------------ ------- ------------- -------------
add_electricity 1 1 1
add_extra_components 1 1 1
base_network 1 1 1
build_bus_regions 1 1 1
build_hydro_profile 1 1 1
build_load_data 1 1 1
build_powerplants 1 1 1
build_renewable_profiles 4 1 1
build_shapes 1 1 1
build_ship_raster 1 1 1
cluster_network 1 1 1
prepare_network 1 1 1
retrieve_cost_data 1 1 1
retrieve_databundle 1 1 1
retrieve_natura_raster 1 1 1
simplify_network 1 1 1
solve_network 1 1 1
total 20 1 1
``snakemake`` then runs these jobs in the correct order.
A job (here ``simplify_network``) will display its attributes and normally some logs below this block:
.. code:: bash
[Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 2023]
rule simplify_network:
input: networks/elec.nc, resources/costs.csv, resources/regions_onshore.geojson, resources/regions_offshore.geojson
output: networks/elec_s.nc, resources/regions_onshore_elec_s.geojson, resources/regions_offshore_elec_s.geojson, resources/busmap_elec_s.csv, resources/connection_costs_s.csv
log: logs/simplify_network/elec_s.log
jobid: 4
benchmark: benchmarks/simplify_network/elec_s
reason: Missing output files: resources/busmap_elec_s.csv, resources/regions_onshore_elec_s.geojson, networks/elec_s.nc, resources/regions_offshore_elec_s.geojson; Input files updated by another job: resources/regions_offshore.geojson, resources/regions_onshore.geojson, resources/costs.csv, networks/elec.nc
wildcards: simpl=
resources: tmpdir=/tmp, mem_mb=4000, mem_mib=3815
Once the whole worktree is finished, it should state so in the terminal.
You will notice that many intermediate stages are saved, namely the outputs of each individual ``snakemake`` rule.
You can produce any output file occurring in the ``Snakefile`` by running
.. code:: bash
.../pypsa-eur % snakemake -j 1