Configuration

A simple configuration file ~/.vresutils.config allows to configure several data related paths:

# data directory
data_dir = "<path to data discussed in the data section>"

# caching (functions decorated with @cachable persist their results in some directory)
cache_dir = "<path to writable empty directory>"

# entsoetransparency url (fill in the blanks from [13])
entsoeftp = 'ftp://<username>:<password>@<hostname>/export/export/'

The reatlas module expects a configuration file ~/.reatlas.config:

hostname = '<hostname with a running Aarhus Renewable Energy Atlas server>'
username = '<username>'
password = '<password>'
notify = False

Required data

Expected to be found below the data sub-directory.

Natura2000/Natura2000_end2016.* :
    Natura 2000 GIS data - the European network of protected sites [11]
    As a shapefile.

corine/g250_clc06_V18_5.* :
    Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2012, Version 18.5.1 [12]
    250m or 100m raster data.

Hydro_Inflow :
    Results from the RESTORE 2050 project [18].

germany.npy :
    German outline as sequence of points, again, extracted from vg250.

vg250 :
    Geometry of various German divisions, for example Landkreise and
    Länder. The geometry of these Landkreise must be available as
    shapefiles at data/vg250 in the UTM32 projection, they are
    available from the Bundesamt für Kartographie and Geodäsie at [1].

ne_10m_admin_countries :
    Worldwide country shapes from naturalearthdata.com [2]

World_EEZ :
    World wide Exclusive Economic Zones from marineregions.org [10], i.e. VLIZ (2014)

NUTS_2010_60M_SH :
    EU shapes from Eurostat [3]

plz-gebiete :
    The German postcode areas obtained from [4], based on OSM

eu_ntc_2016.graphml
    ENTSO-E NTC values (hand-written from [14,15])

links_de_power_150601.csv, vertices_de_power_150601.csv :
    For graph.read_scigrid the data csv files available at [5] must be
    present.

entsoe_2009_final.gpickle :
    An networkx representation of the network published by Bialek
    at [6] with approximate geographical coordinates.

entsoe_country_packages :
    Country packages from ENTSO-E as xls files from [16].

time_series_60min_singleindex_filtered.csv :
    Load data for European countries from the OPSD Time series
    data package [17].  (Using filters to include only `load` of
    full countries, i.e. `DE` but not `DE hertz` and the time
    range from 2011 to end of 2015 is recommended).

nama_10r_3popgdp.tsv.gz , nama_10r_3gdp.tsv.gz :
    Population and GDP data from EUROSTAT by NUTS3 regions

ch_cantons.csv, je-e-21.03.02.xls :
    Population and GDP data per Kanton from the BFS
    in Switzerland.

Kraftwerksliste_CSV_deCP850ed.csv :
    A list of the German powerplants as published by BNetzA at [7].
    The encoding of the CSV on their page is originally compatible to
    CP850 and has to be reencoded to UTF-8 (using recode f.ex.).

global_energy_observatory_power_plants.sqlite :
    An sqlite dump of the http://globalenergyobservatory.org/ page
    scraped using [8].

nrg_113a.xls :
    Extracted Eurostat dataset of the Electrical backup capacity per
    European country in the years 2012/13 from [9].

License

Copyright 2015-2017 Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Footnotes

[1] http://www.geodatenzentrum.de/geodaten/gdz_rahmen.gdz_div?gdz_spr=deu&gdz_akt_zeile=5&gdz_anz_zeile=1&gdz_unt_zeile=14&gdz_user_id=0

[2] http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/ (Admin 0 - Countries)

[3] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units

[4] http://www.suche-postleitzahl.org/downloads

[5] http://www.scigrid.de/pages/downloads.html

[6] http://www.powerworld.com/bialek

[7] http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Sachgebiete/ElektrizitaetundGas/Unternehmen_Institutionen/Versorgungssicherheit/Erzeugungskapazitaeten/Kraftwerksliste/kraftwerksliste-node.html

[8] https://morph.io/coroa/global_energy_observatory_power_plants

[9] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=nrg_113a&mode=view

[10] http://www.marineregions.org/downloads.php (World EEZ v8, Low res)

[11] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/natura-8#tab-gis-data

[12] http://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover/clc-2012/

[13] https://entsoe.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000173266-Overview-of-data-download-options-on-Transparency-Platform

[14] Becker, Sarah. “Transmission grid extensions in renewable electricity systems.” PhD thesis, 2015.

[15] ENTSO-E, Indicative values for Net Transfer Capacities (NTC) in Continental Europe. European Transmission System Operators, 2011, https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/market-reports/ntc-values/ntc-matrix/Pages/default.aspx, accessed Jul 2014.

[16] https://www.entsoe.eu/db-query/country-packages/production-consumption-exchange-package

[17] https://data.open-power-system-data.org/time_series/

[18] https://zenodo.org/record/804244