Open ELYAS renewable energy timeseries dataset for hydro power

This data set contains renewable power generation time series and installed capacities with 6-hourly resolution for hydro run of river power plants for the year 2018. The timeseries have been calculated with EnDAT (Energy Data Analysis Tool), a tool initiated at the German Aerospace Center DLR by (Scholz 2012), globally extended by (Stetter 2014) and maintained and further developed for this data publication. All input data sets are described in the Metadata files.

The data were calculated within the ELYAS project, funded by BMWK, FKZ 03EI1053B. The considered technologies are (technology identifiers in parentheses):

• hydro run of river (hydro_run_of_river)

The data are generated using the hydro module of the Energy Data Analysis Tool EnDAT, developed at DLR (see Scholz 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.18419/opus-2015)

For the installable capacity of the hydro technology existing power plants are used derived from the PyPSA powerplant matching (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3358985) combined with the Hydro RIVERS dataset to match the power plant position to the ressource map. Our analysis aims at analysing temporal profiles of run-of-river hydro power plants. In addition to selecting the plant type "run-of-river", we also assigned that type to the "undefined" power plants as a conservative assumption. The power plant data bases used and the spatial informations about the river network are the following:

• hydro power plant JRC (The Joint Research Centre Power Plant Database (JRC-PPDB), https://doi.org/10.2760/5281)
• hydro power plant GPD (Global Power Plant Database v1.3, https://datasets.wri.org/datasets/global-power-plant-database)
• hydro power plant GHR (GloHydroRes - a global dataset combining open-source hydropower plant and reservoir data v1.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14526360)
• river network (HydroRIVERS v1.0: https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.9740)

For more information on the input data sets, see the metadata descriptions in Open Energy Metadata format which are part of the data package. For the hydro power technologies the EFAS (European Flood Awareness System https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.e3458969) dataset was used for the river discharge which has a spatial resolution of ~5km and a temporal resolution of 6h. The timeseries of each considered renewable energy technology is calculated on a per power plant basis. EnDAT provides 6-hourly capacity factors as output for hydro power, but aggregated on a user-defined regional level, not on power plant level.

The following files for the year 2018 and the above mentioned technologies ({technology_identifiers}) are part of this data set:

• Capacity factors: cf_{technology_identifier}_ELYAS_{year}.csv
• Installed capacities: installed_capacity_{technology_identifier}_ELYAS_{unit}.csv
• Metadata: Each of the above mentioned files has its own metadata entry, merged in the file oemetadata.json.

The data are supposed to be published on the Open Energy Platform (OEP).