ENTSO-E Pan-European Climatic Database (PECD 2021.3) in Parquet format

ENTSO-E Pan-European Climatic Database (PECD 2021.3) in Parquet format

TL;DR: this is a tidy and friendly version of a subset of the PECD 2021.3 data by ENTSO-E: hourly capacity factors for wind onshore, offshore, solar PV, hourly electricity demand, weekly inflow for reservoir and pumping and daily generation for run-of-river. All the data is provided for >30 climatic years (1982-2019 for wind and solar, 1982-2016 for demand, 1982-2017 for hydropoer) and at national and sub-national (>140 zones) level.

ENTSO-E has released with the latest European Resource Adequacy Assessment (ERAA 2021) all the inputs used in the study.
Those inputs include:
- Demand dataset: https://eepublicdownloads.azureedge.net/clean-documents/sdc-documents/ERAA/Demand%20Dataset.7z
- Climate data: https://eepublicdownloads.entsoe.eu/clean-documents/sdc-documents/ERAA/Climate%20Data.7z

The data files and the methodology are available on the official webpage. 

As done for the previous releases (see https://zenodo.org/record/3702418#.YbmhR23MKMo and https://zenodo.org/record/3985078#.Ybmhem3MKMo), the original data - stored in large Excel spreadsheets - have been tidied and formatted in open and friendly formats (CSV for the small tables and Parquet for the large files)

Furthermore, we have carried out a simple country-aggregation for the original data - that uses instead >140 zones.

DISCLAIMER: the content of this dataset has been created with the greatest possible care. However, we invite to use the original data for critical applications and studies. 

Description

This dataset includes the following files:

- capacities-national-estimates.csv: installed capacity in MW per zone, technology and the two scenarios (2025 and 2030). The files include also the total capacity for each technology per country (sum of all the zones within a country)
- PECD-2021.3-wide-LFSolarPV-2025 and PECD-2021.3-wide-LFSolarPV-2030: tables in Parquet format storing in each row the capacity factor for solar PV for a hour of the year and all the climatic years (1982-2019) for a specific zone. The two files contain the capacity factors for the scenarios "National Estimates 2025" and "National Estimates 2030"
- PECD-2021.3-wide-Onshore-2025 and PECD-2021.3-wide-Onshore-2030: same as above but for wind onshore
- PECD-2021.3-wide-Offshore-2025 and PECD-2021.3-wide-Offshore-2030: same as above but for wind offshore
- PECD-wide-demand_national_estimates-2025 and PECD-wide-demand_national_estimates-2030: hourly electricity demand for all the climatic years for a specific zone. The two files contain the load for the scenarios "National Estimates 2025" and "National Estimates 2030" 
- PECD-2021.3-country-LFSolarPV-2025 and PECD-2021.3-country-LFSolarPV-2030: tables in Parquet format storing in each row the capacity factor for country/climatic year and hour of the year. The two files contain the capacity factors for the scenarios "National Estimates 2025" and "National Estimates 2030"
- PECD-2021.3-country-Onshore-2025 and PECD-2021.3-country-Onshore-2030: same as above but for wind onshore
- PECD-2021.3-country-Offshore-2025 and PECD-2021.3-country-Offshore-2030: same as above but for wind offshore
- PECD-country-demand_national_estimates-2025 and PECD-country-demand_national_estimates-2030: same as above but for electricity demand
- PECD_EERA2021_reservoir_pumping.zip: archive with four files per each scenario: 1. table.csv with generation and storage capacities per zone/technology, 2. zone weekly inflow (GWh), 3. table.csv with generation and storage per country/technology and 4. country weekly inflow (GWh)
- PECD_EERA2021_ROR.zip: as for the previous file but the inflow is daily
- plots.zip: archive with 182 png figures with the weekly climatology for all the variables (daily for the electricity demand)

Note

I would like to thank Laurens Stoop for sharing the onshore wind data for the scenario 2030, that was corrupted in the original archive.