EnergyScope Input Data for all European Countries

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Hi EnergyScope users,

We all know the struggle of finding good-quality, country-specific input data for energy system models.
Good news! In a student project that I supervised, we developed a workflow to generate EnergyScopeTD input data (.dat) for European countries, using PyPSA-Eur preprocessing outputs as the main data backbone.

Check out the GitHub repository here:

https://github.com/Gabriel-Wiest/EnergyScopeTD-Eur

The repository is built as a simple Snakemake workflow that:

  1. runs/uses a PyPSA-Eur preprocessing run, then

  2. converts the relevant outputs into per-country EnergyScopeTD-ready input files, including a Typical Days file.

all automated and requiring only a few lines of user input.

If you have any questions or have any thoughts on how to further develop this data pipeline, I am more than happy to discuss them here.

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Hi Gabriel,

Nice work! I think it would be interesting to compare it with the European version of EnergyScope (i.e EnergyScope Multi-Cells) to consolidate our data and the differences with PyPSA. You can also look at my thesis for description of this European version of the model and results.

I would be happy to discuss that with you.

Paolo

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Hi Paolo,

Thanks for the kind words!
I agree that a more in-depth comparison/consolidation could be helpful. Personally, I am not currently working directly with the European Data/Model.

@jonasschnidrig you mentioned some people who are working on it, didn’t you?