chickadee-opt 0.1.1

A tool for advanced dispatch optimization of hybrid energy systems

Chickadee

A developmental hybrid energy system dispatch optimization package aimed at providing flexibility and development speed while supporting integration with other tools.

The goal of this project is to be a testing-grounds for design and dispatch optimization. This project is meant to stay light, fast and flexible rather than full-featured or rigorous. A key requirement of this project is to maintain compatibility with HERON so as to be useable as an internal dispatch optimizer. As a result, the structure necessarily mimics that of HERON to some extent.

Development Installation

Install chickadee for development using pip. Run the following command from within the root of the repository: pip install -e .

Requirements

• Needs to be able to be imported into HERON for internal dispatch optimization
• Needs to be a flexible place for quickly and simply messing around with dispatch/design opt
• Be importable and useable as a python library
• Has to be useable with various optimizers and with various optimization schemes
• Has to be able to support the same type of components as HERON

Ideas to experiment with

• Adding DAEs
• Integrating GEKKO as an optimizer
• Support for timing, allowing optimization of algorithm