HOPP 2.2.0

Hybrid Systems Optimization and Performance Platform.

Release Notes

Version 1.0.0, Upcoming

• Add Wind + PV + Battery + PEM Electrolyzer analysis to examples in H2_Analysis
• Add default scenario inputs for hydrogen as end product with result files
• Add files for simulating, optimizing and plotting Wind + PV + Battery + PEM Electrolyzer hybrids
• Add a PEM electrolyzer model to hybrid (not integrated into HybridSimulation)
• Separate power and financial simulations for PowerSoures and HybridSimulation
• Fix multiprocessing issues
• Updates to integrate FLORIS v3

Version 0.1.0.dev3, Mar. 11, 2022

• Include CBC package data for Windows

Version 0.1.0.dev2, Mar. 11, 2022

• Add CBC open-source dispatch solver as default (faster than GLPK)
• Add Xpress and Gurobi AMPL commercial dispatch solvers
• Add clustering of simulation days with some tuning (use with caution)
• Remove taxes from grid dispatch model
• Add weighting of hybrid financials by production or cost ratio
• Update to csp dispatch cost parameters for absolute grid prices
• Add csv file output option to driver
• Add PV charging only and grid charging options for dispatch
• Add key parameter scaling when scaling CSP tower capacities
• Add capacity credit payment calculations based on dispatch
• Reformulate grid dispatch model
• Add desired schedule option to dispatch model to follow schedule at least cost
• Improve class documentation
• Fix general bugs and clean-up code

Version 0.1.0.dev1, Oct. 11, 2021

• Updated requirements
• Added presolve to GLPK LP solver

Version 0.1.0.dev, Oct. 10, 2021

• Battery dispatch and simulation with example in examples/simulate_hybrid_wbattery_dispatch.py
• Separate layout-related functions from optimization code into Layout classes
• Refactor Optimizer classes to use HybridSimulation with examples in examples/optimization/hybrid_npv.py and examples/optimization/hybrid_sizing_problem.py
• Add Floris as custom module for Wind simulations with examples in examples/add_custom_module
• Move plotting functions into dedicated files
• Rename "Solar" classes to "PV"
• Add ElectricityPrices class with some example input files in resource_files/grid
• Add storage costs to CostCalculator
• Add concentrating solar power (CSP) tower and trough configurations through pySSC wrapper
• Add dispatch optimization model for CSP models
• Add design evaluation methods to iterate on design variables through space sampling, single objective derivative-free optimization, and multi-objective optimization

Version 0.0.5, Apr 30, 2021

• Update PySAM requirements
• Fix flicker check for weight_option

Version 0.0.3, Jan 21, 2021

• Allow flicker heatmap grid cell width and height to be changed
• Normalize time-weighted heatmaps by area as well

Version 0.0.2, Dec 28, 2020

• Allow using swept area of blades inplace of individual blades for flicker model
• Allow wind direction and solar data inputs to flicker model
• Add flicker heatmap weighted by hours shaded as loss option
• Minor bug fixes and restructuring of flicker functions

Version 0.0.1, Dec 14, 2020

• Fixed and updated data in Balance-of-station cost model

Version 0.0.0, Dec 2, 2020

• Official beta release
• Wind & PV simulations
• Hybrid simulation combining mixes of wind & pv
• Flicker modeling
• Derivative-free optimization framework
• Balance-of-station cost model