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A toolset for cleaning, standardizing and combining multiple power plant databases.

This package provides ready-to-use power plant data for the European power system. Starting from openly available power plant datasets, the package cleans, standardizes and merges the input data to create a new combined dataset, which includes all the important information. The package allows to easily update the combined data as soon as new input datasets are released.

You can directly download the current version of the data as a CSV file.

Initially, powerplantmatching was developed by the Renewable Energy Group at FIAS and is now maintained by the Digital Transformation in Energy Systems Group at the Technical University of Berlin to build power plant data inputs to PyPSA-based models for carrying out simulations.

Main Features

Map

powerplants.png

Installation

Using pip

pip install powerplantmatching

or conda

conda install -c conda-forge powerplantmatching

Contributing and Support

We strongly welcome anyone interested in contributing to this project. If you have any ideas, suggestions or encounter problems, feel invited to file issues or make pull requests on GitHub.

Citing powerplantmatching

If you want to cite powerplantmatching, use the following paper

with bibtex

@article{gotzens_performing_2019,
 title = {Performing energy modelling exercises in a transparent way - {The} issue of data quality in power plant databases},
 volume = {23},
 issn = {2211467X},
 url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211467X18301056},
 doi = {10.1016/j.esr.2018.11.004},
 language = {en},
 urldate = {2018-12-03},
 journal = {Energy Strategy Reviews},
 author = {Gotzens, Fabian and Heinrichs, Heidi and Hörsch, Jonas and Hofmann, Fabian},
 month = jan,
 year = {2019},
 pages = {1--12}
}

and/or the current release stored on Zenodo with a release-specific DOI:

DOI

Licence

Copyright 2018-2022 Fabian Hofmann (EnSys TU Berlin), Fabian Gotzens (FZ Jülich), Jonas Hörsch (KIT),

powerplantmatching is released as free software under the GPLv3, see LICENSE for further information.