Network files and Python code used in "Designing a sector-coupled European energy system robust to 60 years of historical weather data"

Description

This repository contains data presented in the paper Designing a sector-coupled European energy system robust to 60 years of historical weather data. It contains the derived metrics (.csv) files from a:

1. joint capacity and dispatch optimization with weather years (design years) from 1960 to 2021 as input
2. dispatch optimization of the 62 capacity layouts using weather years (operational years) different from the design year.

All results from (1) are found in "Capacity_optimization.zip" and results from (2) are found in "Dispatch_optimization.zip".

The resulting network files (both from the capacity and dispatch optimization) are located here.

We also provide the Python code used to derive the metrics and to create the visualizations included in the paper. This is located in "Jupyter_notebooks". The Jupyter notebooks refer to Python scripts located here.

Revisions:

This version includes the following additions compared to the previous versions: 

• Timeseries of nodal loads for all years
• Timeseries of nodal heat pump Coefficient of Performance (COP) 
• Nodal capacity and hourly capacity factors