Description: 
The responsibility of the TSOs in Germany is not directly tied to specific federal states of the country. 
Instead, each TSO is responsible for specific regions within Germany. Therefore, the data was resolved at a NUTS3 level 
and aggregated accordingly to their specific TSOs. 

The following described the required preprocessing for the TSO allocation factors. 

- Direct matching from the TSO shape file for Germany and the powerplant list is not possible.
  The following steps were required to match the powerplant list to TSO.

1. Per_Unit_Generation[EIC Code] needs to be matched with matching_id_EIC[EIC Code] because the per unit data does not match with the powerplant list.
2. matching_id_EIC[BNA] needs to be matched with Kraftwerkliste[MaStR-Nr] to obtain all corresponding units since there are multiple units for every BNA number.
3. Kraftwerkliste[MaStR-Nr] needs to be matched with Kraftwerkliste[postal code] using the postal code as an accurate identifier for the powerplant's region. 
	adjustment: Powerplants below 10MW do not have postal codes, so each of the NUTS3 regions within the state obtain equal shares of this generation.
4. Postal codes are mapped to NUTS3 Codes [ie. postal_code=24855 NUTS3_code=DEF0C].
5. NUTS3 Codes need to be matched with region name since the shape file of the TSO regions only provides the full names as an identifier [ie. Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg].
6. NUTS3CODE_kreisname_conv[name] need to be matched with name GER_NUTS3_TSOs[name] because the conversion file does not directly convert to the exact name the TSO file, resulting in slight discrepancies [ie. Kreis Schleswig-Flensburg vs.Schleswig-Flensburg].
7. Finally, the names are mapped to the corresponding TSO to assign every powerplant in the Kraftwerkliste one of the 4 TSO's.

8. Additional adjustments were made to the TSO shape file mapping due to inconsistancies found. 
Adjustments to GER_NUTS3_TSOs.shp:
	- DE949 -> powerplant=Kernkraftwerk Lippe-Ems GmbH, energy= nuclear, TSO_old= TenneT, TSO_new= Amprion
	Produced by left over pertype distribution: 
	- DE148 -> energy = fossil Brown coal/Lignite TSO_old= Transnet_BW, TSO_new=Amprion
	- DE149 -> energy = fossil Brown coal/Lignite TSO_old= Transnet_BW, TSO_new=Amprion

9. Powerplants are now matched to TSOs and can be used to produced allocation factors.