|changed| template: can now be used anywhere within YAML definition files, not just in the nodes, techs and data_tables sections.
|changed| "An overview of the Calliope terminology" information admonition to remove self-references and improve understandability. Now also includes a visual depiction of how the different defined components connect together (#699).
|fixed| Area-based parameters have appropriate documented units of area rather than area^2 (#701).
|fixed| Technology capacity lower bound constraints so that [cap-type]_min (e.g., flow_cap_min) is not always enforced if the purchased_units variable is active (#643).
|changed| Single data entries defined in YAML indexed parameters will not be automatically broadcast along indexed dimensions.
To achieve the same functionality as in <v0.7.dev4, the user must set the new init configuration option broadcast_param_data to True (#615).
|changed| Helper functions are now documented on their own page within the "Defining your own math" section of the documentation (#698).
|new| where(array, condition) math helper function to apply a where array inside an expression, to enable extending component dimensions on-the-fly, and applying filtering to different components within the expression (#604, #679).
|new| Data tables can inherit options from templates, like techs and nodes (#676).
|new| dimension renaming functionality when loading from a data source, using the rename_dims option (#680).
|changed| cost expressions in math, to split out investment costs into the capital cost (cost_investment), annualised capital cost (cost_investment_annualised), fixed operation costs (cost_operation_fixed) and variable operation costs (cost_operation_variable, previously cost_var) (#645).
|new| Math has been removed from model.math, and can now be accessed via model.math.data (#639).
|new| (non-NaN) Default values and data types for parameters appear in math documentation (if they appear in the model definition schema) (#677).
|changed| data_sources -> data_tables and data_sources.source -> data_tables.data.
This change has occurred to avoid confusion between data "sources" and model energy "sources" (#673).
|changed| Model definition reading is now defined in a single place (preprocess/model_definition.py).
|changed| Moved YAML reading/importing functionality out of AttrDict. It is now part of our io functionality.
|fixed| Avoided gurobi 12.0 incompatibility with pyomo by setting the lower bound to v6.8.2.
|fixed| Decision variable domain in math docs to use
|fixed| Clarity of flow_cap_min description in documentation (#653).
|changed| API/schema documentation is de-ranked in documentation search bar results (#670).
|new| Math component cross-references in both directions ("uses" and "used in") in Markdown math documentation (#643).
|fixed| Duplicated links in math documentation (#651).
|changed| node_groups and tech_groups changed to a general top-level templates key,
accessed via the template key (replacing inherit) in nodes and techs (#600).
|fixed| Contribution of cost_om_annual_investment_fraction to total investment costs, to not apply to depreciated costs (#645).
|fixed| Math for multi-carrier variable export costs (#663).
|new| Piecewise constraints added to the YAML math with its own unique syntax (#107). These constraints will be added to the optimisation problem using Special Ordered Sets of Type 2 (SOS2) variables.
|new| Direct interface to the Gurobi Python API using !#yaml config.build.backend: gurobi or !#python model.build(backend="gurobi").
Tests show that using the gurobi solver via the Python API reduces peak memory consumption and runtime by at least 30% for the combined model build and solve steps.
This requires the gurobipy package which can be installed with mamba: mamba install gurobi::gurobi.
|fixed| Force a header row in tabular data loaded from CSV to (#596). Fixes issue where unexpected index levels can end up in the loaded data (#573).
|fixed| Single element lists/sets in the model Dataset attribute dictionary are restored to lists/sets on loading from NetCDF (#614).
|new| Decision variables and global expressions can have a title defined, which will be available in the model results as attributes of those components and can be used for e.g. visualisation (#582).
Parameter titles from the model definition schema will also propagate to the model inputs.
|fixed| Backend parameter updates propagate correctly through global expressions in the order those expressions were defined (#616).
|fixed| If setting model.backend.verbose_strings(), rebuilt model components from making backend parameter updates will automatically have verbose strings (#623).
|fixed| Erroneous use of dimensions: in docs example of an indexed parameter (#612).
|changed| add_dimensions to add_dims in data_sources definition to align with dims in indexed parameter definition (#621).
|new| Allow extracting shadow prices into results by listing constraints in config.solve.shadow_prices, e.g. config.solve.shadow_prices: ["system_balance"] Shadow prices will be added as variables to the model results as shadow_price_{constraintname}, e.g. shadow_price_system_balance.
|new| Model stores key timestamps as attributes:
timestamp_model_creation: at the start ofModel.__init__()timestamp_build_started: at the start ofModel.build()timestamp_build_complete: at the end ofModel.build()timestamp_solve_started: at the start ofModel.solve()timestamp_solve_complete: at the end ofModel.solve()
|changed| model._model_def_dict has been removed.
|new| CalliopeMath is a new helper class to handle math additions, including separate methods for pre-defined math, user-defined math and validation checks.
|changed| MathDocumentation has been extracted from Model/LatexBackend, and now is a postprocessing module which can take models as input.
|new| gurobipy is a development dependency that will be added as an optional dependency to the conda-forge calliope feedstock recipe.
|changed| Added any new math dicts defined with calliope.Model.backend.add_[...](...) to the backend math dict registry stored in calliope.Model.backend.inputs.attrs["math"].
|changed| Function vectorisation when creating backend component arrays uses numpy.frompyfunc instead of xarray.apply_ufunc, so that masking with a where array can be done at function calltime.
This requires pre-broadcasting all arrays being passed to the vectorised function, but reduces memory peaks in the Gurobi backend interface in particular.
|changed| Default parameter values are not used to fill NaNs when adding parameters to the backend, but when evaluating expressions. This reduces memory footprint of parameter arrays.
|fixed| Removed unused debug parameter in Model.__init__()
|changed| Ruff linter checking was extended with pydocstrings, flake8-pytest, and pyupgrade.
|changed| Moved from black formatting to the Ruff formatter (black-based, but faster).
|new| mkdocs_tabbed option when writing math documentation to file (calliope.Model.math_documentation.write(...)) which will add YAML snippets to all rendered math as a separate "tab" if writing to Markdown.
Requires the PyMdown tabbed extension to render the tabs correctly in an MkDocs project.
|new| List of pre-defined parameters given in the pre-defined math documentation, with references back to the constraints/variables/global expressions in which they are defined (either in the expression string or the where string).
|new| Units and default values for variables and global expressions added to the math documentation.
|new| Variables and global expressions can have a default value, which is used to fill missing array elements when doing math operations.
These default values ensure that NaN doesn't creep into the built optimisation problem math and are set to values that lead to them having no impact on the optimal solution.
|new| Utility function calliope.util.schema.update_model_schema(...) to add user-defined parameters to the model schema / update existing parameters using YAML schema syntax.
calliope.util.schema.reset() can be used to clean the model schema and return to the original, pre-defined schema.
|fixed| Timeseries clustering file can be a non-ISO standard date format.
Both the index and the values of the timeseries (both being date strings) should be in the user-defined config.init.time_format.
|fixed| the decision variable purchased_units is linked to flow_cap even if neither of the parameters flow_cap_min or flow_cap_max have been defined by the user.
|changed| inbuilt math -> pre-defined math and custom math -> pre-defined math in the documentation.
|changed| Calliope attribute dictionaries (AttrDicts) no longer sort dictionary keys on union. Key order is now: original dictionary key order + any new keys being added in the order they appear in the new dictionary.
|fixed| Dimensions with numeric data can be defined in tabular data or YAML and will appear as numeric in the processed Calliope model input dataset.
If all dimension data can be coerced to a numeric data type (e.g. ["10", 100, "-1"]), then it will be coerced (e.g., [10, 100, -1]).
|new| py.typed file so that mypy recognises Calliope as a typed library when it is imported as a dependency.
|fixed| Spelling of Black config option skip-magic-trailing-comma.
v0.7 includes a major change to how Calliope internally operates. Along with this, there are multiple changes to how Calliope models are defined and configured. This requires adapting models to work with 0.7. We group changes into those that are primarily user-facing and relevant for all Calliope users, and those that are primarily internal, and relevant only for Calliope developers.
This section gives a brief summary of changes. For more detail, see our migrating from v0.6 to v0.7 section in our documentation.
|new| Storage buffers available in all technology base classes.
|new| Multiple carriers and different carriers in/out available in all technology base classes.
|new| node_groups added to match tech_groups.
|new| technology efficiencies split into inflow and outflow efficiencies.
|new| Technology capacities and efficiencies can be differentiated between technology carriers.
|new| Parameters can be defined outside the scope of nodes and techs using the top-level parameters key in YAML.
|new| Any parameters can be indexed over arbitrary dimensions, both core Calliope dimensions and new, user-defined dimensions.
|new| Non-timeseries data can be loaded from CSV files or in-memory Pandas DataFrames using the top-level data_sources key in YAML.
|new| User-defined mathematical formulations using the new Calliope math syntax can be loaded when creating a model.
|new| Shadow prices obtained from a dual LP problem can be read by using model.backend.shadow_prices.get("constraint_name").
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Updated to support Python versions >= 3.10.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Updated to Pandas >= v2.1, Pyomo >= v6.4, Xarray >= v2023.10.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Flat technology definitions, removing the distinction between essentials, constraints and costs.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Timeseries data is defined under the data_sources top-level key, not with file=/df= at the technology level.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Demand and carrier consumption values are strictly positive instead of strictly negative.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| model.run() method → two-stage model.build() + model.solve() methods.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| model and run top-level keys → config.init/.build/.solve.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| locations top-level key and loc data dimensions → nodes.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| parent technology parameter → base_tech + inherit.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Cost parameters are flattened and use the indexed parameter syntax.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| links top-level key → transmission links defined in techs.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Various parameters/decision variables renamed (namely energy_ → flow_, carrier_prod/_con → flow_out/_in, and resource → source_use/sink_use).
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Various configuration options renamed.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| force_resource technology parameter → source_use_equals / sink_use_equals.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| units + purchased decision variables → purchased_units.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Parameters added to explicitly trigger MILP and storage decision variables/constraints.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Structure of input and output data within a Calliope model updated to remove concatenated loc::tech::carrier sets and technology subsets (e.g. techs_supply) in favour of sparse arrays indexed over core dimensions only (nodes, techs, carriers, timesteps).
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| coordinates.lat/lon node parameter → latitude/longitude.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Distance units default to kilometres and can be reverted to metres with config.init.distance_unit.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| operate mode input parameters now expected to match plan mode decision variable names (e.g., flow_cap).
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Cyclic storage is defined per-technology, not as a top-level configuration option.
|changed| Documentation has been overhauled.
|removed| _equals constraints.
Use both _min and _max constraints to the same value.
|removed| x/y coordinates.
Use geographic lat/lon coordinates (in EPSG:4326 projection) instead.
|removed| Comma-separated node definitions.
Inheriting duplicate definitions from node_groups instead.
|removed| supply_plus and conversion_plus technology base classes.
Use supply and conversion technology base classes instead.
|removed| carrier key.
Use carrier_in and carrier_out instead.
|removed| carrier_tiers and carrier_ratios.
Use indexed parameter definitions for flow_out_eff and your own math instead.
|removed| calliope.Model.get_formatted_array.
The Calliope internal representation of data now matches the format achieved by calling this method in v0.6.
|removed| Group constraints. Use your own math instead.
|removed| Configuration options for features we no longer support.
|removed| Plotting. See our documentation for example of how to visualise your data with Plotly.
|removed| Clustering. Cluster your data before creating your Calliope model. Mapping of timeseries dates to representative days is still possible.
|new| Automatic release uploads to PyPI and new accompanying pre-release pipeline.
|new| Choice of issue templates.
|new| YAML schema to catch the worst offences perpetrated in the model definition / configuration.
This schema is also rendered as a reference page in the documentation, replacing defaults/config tables.
|new| The model mathematical formulation (constraints, decision variables, objectives) is stored in a YAML configuration file: math/base.yaml.
Equation expressions and the logic to decide on when to apply a constraint/create a variable etc. are given in string format.
These strings are parsed according to a set of documented rules.
|changed| Development environment installation instructions (they're now simpler!).
|changed| Documentation has been ported to Markdown pages and is built using MKDocs and the Material theme.
|changed| Pre-processed model data checks are conducted according to a YAML configuration, instead of a hard-coded set of python functions. An API will be created in due course to allow the user to add their own checks to the configuration.
|changed| Costs are now Pyomo expressions rather than decision variables.
|changed| When a model is loaded into an active session, configuration dictionaries are stored as dictionaries instead of serialised YAML strings in the model data attributes dictionary. Serialisation and de-serialisation only occur on saving and loading from NetCDF, respectively.
|changed| Backend interface has been abstracted to enable non-Pyomo solver interfaces to be implemented in due course.
|changed| Repository structure has been re-configured to use the src layout, to rely on the pyproject.toml configuration file for most config, and to use only .txt requirements files (for pip+conda cross-compatibility)
|changed| CI moved from Azure pipelines (back) to GitHub Actions.
|changed| Stronger reliance on pre-commit, including a CI check to run it in Pull Requests.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Updated to Numpy v1.23, Pandas v1.5, Pyomo v6.4, Ruamel.yaml v0.17, Scikit-learn v1.2, Xarray v2022.3, GLPK v5. This enables Calliope to be installed on Apple Silicon devices, but changes the result of algorithmic timeseries clustering. In scikit-learn version 0.24.0, the method of random sampling for K-Means clustering was changed. This change will lead to different optimisation results if using K-Means clustering in your model.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Removed support for Python version 3.7 since some updated dependencies are not available in this version.
|changed| Installation instructions for developers have changed since we no longer duplicate pinned packages between the development/testing requirements file (requirements.yml) and the package requirements file (requirements.txt). See the documentation for updated instructions.
|fixed| Set ordering in the model dataset is consistent before and after optimising a model with clustered timeseries. Previously, the link between clusters and timesteps would become mixed following optimisation, so running model.run(force_rerun=True) would yield a different result.
|changed| Updated to Python 3.9, with compatibility testing continuing for versions 3.8 and 3.9. Multi-platform CI tests are run on Python 3.9 instead of Python 3.8. CI tests on a Linux machine are also run for versions 3.7 and 3.8. This has been explicitly mentioned in the documentation.
|changed| Updated to Click 8.0.
|changed| Updated CBC Windows binary link in documentation to version 2.10.8.
|fixed| SPORES mode scoring will ignore technologies with energy capacities that are equal to their minimum capacities (i.e., energy_cap_min) or which have fixed energy capacities (energy_cap_equals).
|fixed| SPORE number is retained when continuing a model run in SPORES mode when solutions already exist for SPORE >= 1. Previously, the SPORE number would be reset to zero.
|fixed| Malformed carrier-specific group constraints are skipped without skipping all subsequent group constraints.
|fixed| Spurious negative values in storage_inital in operate mode are ignored in subsequent optimisation runs (#379). Negative values are a result of optimisation tolerances allowing a strictly positive decision variable to end up with (very small in magnitude) negative values. Forcing these to zero between operate mode runs ensures that Pyomo doesn't raise an exception that input values are outside the valid domain (NonNegativeReals).
|fixed| om_annual investment costs will be calculated for technologies with only an om_annual cost defined in their configuration (#373). Previously, no investment costs would be calculated in this edge case.
|new| run configuration parameter to enable relaxation of the demand_share_per_timestep_decision constraint.
|new| storage_cap_min/equals/max group constraints added.
|changed| Updated to Pyomo 6.2, pandas 1.3, xarray 0.20, numpy 1.20.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| parameters defaulting to False now default to None, to avoid confusion with zero. To 'switch off' a constraint, a user should now set it to 'null' rather than 'false' in their YAML configuration.
|changed| INFO logging level includes logs for dataset cleaning steps before saving to NetCDF and for instantiation of timeseries clustering/resampling (if taking place).
|fixed| demand_share_per_timestep_decision constraint set includes all expected (location, technology, carrier) items. In the previous version, not all expected items were captured.
|fixed| Mixed dtype xarray dataset variables, where one dtype is boolean, are converted to float if possible. This overcomes an error whereby the NetCDF file cannot be created due to a mixed dtype variable.
|new| spores run mode can skip the cost-optimal run, with the user providing initial conditions for spores_score and slack system cost.
|new| Support for Pyomo's gurobi_persistent solver interface, which enables a more memory- and time-efficient update and re-running of models. A new backend interface has been added to re-build constraints / the objective in the Gurobi persistent solver after updating Pyomo parameters.
|new| A scenario can now be a mix of overrides and other scenarios, not just overrides.
|new| model.backend.rerun() can work with both spores and plan run modes (previously only plan worked). In the spores case, this only works with a built backend that has not been previously run (i.e. model.run(build_only=True)), but allows a user to update constraints etc. before running the SPORES method.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Carrier-specific group constraints are only allowed in isolation (one constraint in the group).
|changed| If ensure_feasibility is set to True, unmet_demand will always be returned in the model results, even if the model is feasible. Fixes issue #355.
|changed| Updated to Pyomo 6.0, pandas 1.2, xarray 0.17.
|changed| Update CBC Windows binary link in documentation.
|fixed| AttrDict now has a __name__ attribute, which makes pytest happy.
|fixed| CLI plotting command has been re-enabled. Fixes issue #341.
|fixed| Group constraints are more robust to variations in user inputs. This entails a trade-off whereby some previously accepted user configurations will no longer be possible, since we want to avoid the complexity of processing them.
|fixed| demand_share_per_timestep_decision now functions as expected, where it previously did not enforce the per-timestep share after having decided upon it.
|fixed| Various bugs squashed in running operate mode.
|fixed| Handle number of timesteps lower than the horizon length in operate mode (#337).
|new| spores run mode now available, to find Spatially-explicit Practically Optimal REsultS (SPORES)
|new| New group constraints carrier_con_min, carrier_con_max, carrier_con_equals which restrict the total consumed energy of a subgroup of conversion and/or demand technologies.
|new| Add ability to pass timeseries as dataframes in calliope.Model instead of only as CSV files.
|new| Pyomo backend interfaces added to get names of all model objects (get_all_model_attrs) and to attach custom constraints to the backend model (add_constraint).
|changed| Parameters are assigned a domain in Pyomo based on their dtype in model_data
|changed| Internal code reorganisation.
|changed| Updated to Pyomo 5.7, pandas 1.1, and xarray 0.16
|fixed| One-way transmission technologies can have om costs
|fixed| Silent override of nested dicts when parsing YAML strings
|new| New group constraints energy_cap_equals, resource_area_equals, and energy_cap_share_equals to add the equality constraint to existing min/max group constraints.
|new| New group constraints carrier_prod_min, carrier_prod_max, and carrier_prod_equals which restrict the absolute energy produced by a subgroup of technologies and locations.
|new| Introduced a storage_discharge_depth constraint, which allows to set a minimum stored-energy level to be preserved by a storage technology.
|new| New group constraints net_import_share_min, net_import_share_max, and net_import_share_equals which restrict the net imported energy of a certain carrier into subgroups of locations.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Group constraints with the prefix supply_share are renamed to use the prefix carrier_prod_share. This ensures consistent naming for all group constraints.
|changed| Allowed 'energy_cap_min' for transmission technologies.
|changed| Minor additions made to troubleshooting and development documentation.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| The backend interface to update a parameter value (Model.backend.update_param()) has been updated to allow multiple values in a parameter to be updated at once, using a dictionary.
|changed| Allowed om_con cost for demand technologies. This is conceived to allow better representing generic international exports as demand sinks with a given revenue (e.g. the average electricity price on a given bidding zone), not restricted to any particular type of technology.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| model.backend.rerun() returns a calliope Model object instead of an xarray Dataset, allowing a user to access calliope Model methods, such as get_formatted_array.
|changed| Carrier ratios can be loaded from file, to allow timeseries carrier ratios to be defined, e.g. carrier_ratios.carrier_out_2.heat: file=ratios.csv.
|changed| Objective function options turned into Pyomo parameters. This allows them to update through the Model.backend.update_param() functionality.
|changed| All model defaults have been moved to defaults.yaml, removing the need for model.yaml. A default location, link and group constraint have been added to defaults.yaml to validate input model keys.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Revised internal logging and warning structure. Less critical warnings during model checks are now logged directly to the INFO log level, which is displayed by default in the CLI, and can be enabled when running in Python by calling calliope.set_log_verbosity() without any options. The calliope.set_log_level function has been renamed to calliope.set_log_verbosity and includes the ability to easily turn on and off the display of solver output.
|changed| All group constraint values are parameters so they can be updated in the backend model
|fixed| Operate mode checks cleaned up to warn less frequently and to not be so aggressive at editing a users model to fit the operate mode requirements.
|fixed| Documentation distinctly renders inline Python, YAML, and shell code snippets.
|fixed| Tech groups are used to filter technologies to which group constraints can be applied. This ensures that transmission and storage technologies are included in cost and energy capacity group constraints. More comprehensive tests have been added accordingly.
|fixed| Models saved to NetCDF now include the fully built internal YAML model and debug data so that Model.save_commented_model_yaml() is available after loading a NetCDF model from disk
|fixed| Fix an issue preventing the deprecated charge_rate constraint from working in 0.6.4.
|fixed| Fix an issue that prevented 0.6.4 from loading NetCDF models saved with older versions of Calliope. It is still recommended to only load models with the same version of Calliope that they were saved with, as not all functionality will work when mixing versions.
|fixed| |backwards-incompatible| Updated to require pandas 0.25, xarray 0.14, and scikit-learn 0.22, and verified Python 3.8 compatibility. Because of a bugfix in scikit-learn 0.22, models using k-means clustering with a specified random seed may return different clusters from Calliope 0.6.5 on.
|new| New model-wide constraint that can be applied to all, or a subset of, locations and technologies in a model, covering:
demand_share,supply_share,demand_share_per_timestep,supply_share_per_timestep, each of which can specifymin,max, andequals, as well asenergy_cap_share_minandenergy_cap_share_max. These supersede thegroup_shareconstraints, which are now deprecated and will be removed in v0.7.0.demand_share_per_timestep_decision, allowing the model to make decisions on the per-timestep shares of carrier demand met from different technologies.cost_max,cost_min,cost_equals,cost_var_max,cost_var_min,cost_var_equals,cost_investment_max,cost_investment_min,cost_investment_equals, which allow a user to constrain costs, including those not used in the objective.energy_cap_min,energy_cap_max,resource_area_min,resource_area_maxwhich allow to constrain installed capacities of groups of technologies in specific locations.
|new| asynchronous_prod_con parameter added to the constraints, to allow a user to fix a storage or transmission technology to only be able to produce or consume energy in a given timestep. This ensures that unphysical dissipation of energy cannot occur in these technologies, by activating a binary variable (prod_con_switch) in the backend.
|new| Multi-objective optimisation problems can be defined by linear scalarisation of cost classes, using run.objective_options.cost_class (e.g. {'monetary': 1, 'emissions': 0.1}, which models an emissions price of 0.1 units of currency per unit of emissions)
|new| Storage capacity can be tied to energy capacity with a new energy_cap_per_storage_cap_equals constraint.
|new| The ratio of energy capacity and storage capacity can be constrained with a new energy_cap_per_storage_cap_min constraint.
|new| Easier way to save an LP file with a --save_lp command-line option and a Model.to_lp method
|new| Documentation has a new layout, better search, and is restructured with various content additions, such as a section on troubleshooting.
|new| Documentation for developers has been improved to include an overview of the internal package structure and a guide to contributing code via a pull request.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Scenarios in YAML files defined as list of override names, not comma-separated strings: fusion_scenario: cold_fusion,high_cost becomes fusion_scenario: ['cold_fusion', 'high_cost']. No change to the command-line interface.
|changed| charge_rate has been renamed to energy_cap_per_storage_cap_max. charge_rate will be removed in Calliope 0.7.0.
|changed| Default value of resource_area_max now is inf instead of 0, deactivating the constraint by default.
|changed| Constraint files are auto-loaded in the pyomo backend and applied in the order set by 'ORDER' variables given in each constraint file (such that those constraints which depend on pyomo expressions existing are built after the expressions are built).
|changed| Error on defining a technology in both directions of the same link.
|changed| Any inexistent locations and / or technologies defined in model-wide (group) constraints will be caught and filtered out, raising a warning of their existence in the process.
|changed| Error on required column not existing in CSV is more explicit.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Exit code for infeasible problems now is 1 (no success). This is a breaking change when relying on the exit code.
|changed| get_formatted_array improved in both speed and memory consumption.
|changed| model and run configurations are now available as attributes of the Model object, specifically as editable dictionaries which automatically update a YAML string in the model_data xarray dataset attribute list (i.e. the information is stored when sending to the solver backend and when saving to and loading from NetCDF file)
|changed| All tests and example models have been updated to solve with Coin-CBC, instead of GLPK. Documentation has been updated to reflect this, and aid in installing CBC (which is not simple for Windows users).
|changed| Additional and improved pre-processing checks and errors for common model mistakes.
|fixed| Total levelised cost of energy considers all costs, but energy generation only from supply, supply_plus, conversion, and conversion_plus.
|fixed| If a space is left between two locations in a link (i.e. A, B instead of A,B), the space is stripped, instead of leading to the expectation of a location existing with the name B.
|fixed| Timeseries efficiencies can be included in operate mode without failing on preprocessing checks.
|fixed| Name of data variables is retained when accessed through model.get_formatted_array()
|fixed| Systemwide constraints work in models without transmission systems.
|fixed| Updated documentation on amendments of abstract base technology groups.
|fixed| Models without time series data fail gracefully.
|fixed| Unknown technology parameters are detected and the user is warned.
|fixed| Loc::techs with empty cost classes (i.e. value == None) are handled by a warning and cost class deletion, instead of messy failure.
|new| Addition of flows plotting function. This shows production and how much they exchange with other locations. It also provides a slider in order to see flows' evolution through time.
|new| calliope generate_runs in the command line interface can now produce scripts for remote clusters which require SLURM-based submission (sbatch...).
|new| |backwards-incompatible| Addition of scenarios, which complement and expand the existing overrides functionality. overrides becomes a top-level key in model configuration, instead of a separate file. The calliope run command has a new --scenario option which replaces --override_file, while calliope generate_runs has a new --scenarios option which replaces --override_file and takes a semicolon-separated list of scenario names or of group1,group2 combinations. To convert existing overrides to the new approach, simply group them under a top-level overrides key and import your existing overrides file from the main model configuration file with import: ['your_overrides_file.yaml'].
|new| Addition of calliope generate_scenarios command to allow automating the construction of scenarios which consist of many combinations of overrides.
|new| Added --override_dict option to calliope run and calliope generate_runs commands
|new| Added solver performance comparison in the docs. CPLEX & Gurobi are, as expected, the best options. If going open-source & free, CBC is much quicker than GLPK!
|new| Calliope is tested and confirmed to run on Python 3.7
|changed| resource_unit - available to supply, supply_plus, and demand technologies - can now be defined as 'energy_per_area', 'energy', or 'energy_per_cap'. 'power' has been removed. If 'energy_per_area' then available resource is the resource (CSV or static value) * resource_area, if 'energy_per_cap' it is resource * energy_cap. Default is 'energy', i.e. resource = available_resource.
|changed| Updated to xarray v0.10.8, including updates to timestep aggregation and NetCDF I/O to handle updated xarray functionality.
|changed| Removed calliope convert command. If you need to convert a 0.5.x model, first use calliope convert in Calliope 0.6.2 and then upgrade to 0.6.3 or higher.
|changed| Removed comment persistence in AttrDict and the associated API in order to improve compatibility with newer versions of ruamel.yaml
|fixed| Operate mode is more robust, by being explicit about timestep and loc_tech indexing in storage_initial preparation and resource_cap checks, respectively, instead of assuming an order.
|fixed| When setting ensure_feasibility, the resulting unmet_demand variable can also be negative, accounting for possible infeasibility when there is unused supply, once all demand has been met (assuming no load shedding abilities). This is particularly pertinent when the force_resource constraint is in place.
|fixed| When applying systemwide constraints to transmission technologies, they are no longer silently ignored. Instead, the constraint value is doubled (to account for the constant existence of a pair of technologies to describe one link) and applied to the relevant transmission techs.
|fixed| Permit groups in override files to specify imports of other YAML files
|fixed| If only interest_rate is defined within a cost class of a technology, the entire cost class is correctly removed after deleting the interest_rate key. This ensures an empty cost key doesn't break things later on. Fixes issue #113.
|fixed| If time clustering with 'storage_inter_cluster' = True, but no storage technologies, the model doesn't break. Fixes issue #142.
|new| units_max_systemwide and units_equals_systemwide can be applied to an integer/binary constrained technology (capacity limited by units not energy_cap, or has an associated purchase (binary) cost). Constraint works similarly to existing energy_cap_max_systemwide, limiting the number of units of a technology that can be purchased across all locations in the model.
|new| |backwards-incompatible| primary_carrier for conversion_plus techs is now split into primary_carrier_in and primary_carrier_out. Previously, it only accounted for output costs, by separating it, om_con and om_prod are correctly accounted for. These are required conversion_plus essentials if there's more than one input and output carrier, respectively.
|new| Storage can be set to cyclic using run.cyclic_storage. The last timestep in the series will then be used as the 'previous day' conditions for the first timestep in the series. This also applies to storage_inter_cluster, if clustering. Defaults to False, with intention of defaulting to True in 0.6.3.
|new| On clustering timeseries into representative days, an additional set of decision variables and constraints is generated. This addition allows for tracking stored energy between clusters, by considering storage between every datestep of the original (unclustered) timeseries as well as storage variation within a cluster.
|new| CLI now uses the IPython debugger rather than built-in pdb, which provides highlighting, tab completion, and other UI improvements
|new| AttrDict now persists comments when reading from and writing to YAML files, and gains an API to view, add and remove comments on keys
|fixed| Fix CLI error when running a model without transmission technologies
|fixed| Allow plotting for inputs-only models, single location models, and models without location coordinates
|fixed| Fixed negative om_con costs in conversion and conversion_plus technologies
|new| Addition of user-defined datestep clustering, accessed by clustering_func: file=filename.csv:column in time aggregation config
|new| Added layout_updates and plotly_kwarg_updates parameters to plotting functions to override the generated Plotly configuration and layout
|changed| Cost class and sense (maximize/minimize) for objective function may now be specified in run configuration (default remains monetary cost minimization)
|changed| Cleaned up and documented Model.save_commented_model_yaml() method
|fixed| Fixed error when calling --save_plots in CLI
|fixed| Minor improvements to warnings
|fixed| Pure dicts can be used to create a Model instance
|fixed| AttrDict.union failed on all-empty nested dicts
Version 0.6.0 is an almost complete rewrite of most of Calliope's internals. See New in v0.6.0 for a more detailed description of the many changes.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Substantial changes to model configuration format, including more verbose names for most settings, and removal of run configuration files.
|new| |backwards-incompatible| Complete rewrite of Pyomo backend, including new various new and improved functionality to interact with a built model (see :doc:user/ref_05_to_06).
|new| Addition of a calliope convert CLI tool to convert 0.5.x models to 0.6.0.
|new| Experimental ability to link to non-Pyomo backends.
|new| New constraints: resource_min_use constraint for supply and supply_plus techs.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Removal of settings and constraints includes subset_x, subset_y, s_time, r2, r_scale_to_peak, weight.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| system_margin constraint replaced with reserve_margin constraint.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Removed the ability to load additional custom constraints or objectives.
- |fixed| Allow
r_areato be non-zero if either ofe_cap.maxore_cap.equalsis set, not juste_cap.max. - |fixed| Ensure static parameters in resampled timeseries are caught in constraint generation
- |fixed| Fix time masking when set_t.csv contains sub-hourly resolutions
-
|fixed|
r_area_per_e_capandr_cap_equals_e_capconstraints have been separated from r_area and r_cap constraints to ensure that user specifiedr_area.maxandr_cap.maxconstraints are observed. -
|changed| technologies and location subsets are now communicated with the solver as a combined location:technology subset, to reduce the problem size, by ignoring technologies at locations in which they have not been allowed. This has shown drastic improvements in Pyomo preprocessing time and memory consumption for certain models.
- |fixed| Allow plotting carrier production using
calliope.analysis.plot_carrier_productionif that carrier does not have an associated demand technology (previously would raise an exception). - |fixed| Define time clustering method (sum/mean) for more constraints that can be time varying. Previously only included
rande_eff. - |changed| storage technologies default
s_cap.maxtoinf, not 0 and are automatically included in theloc_tech_storesubset. This ensures relevant constraints are not ignored by storage technologies. - |changed| Some values in the urban scale MILP example were updated to provide results that would show the functionality more clearly
- |changed| technologies have set colours in the urban scale example model, as random colours were often hideous.
- |changed| ruamel.yaml, not ruamel_yaml, is now used for parsing YAML files.
- |fixed| e_cap constraints for unmet_demand technologies are ignored in operational mode. Capacities are fixed for all other technologies, which previously raised an exception, as a fixed infinite capacity is not physically allowable.
- |fixed| stack_weights were strings rather than numeric datatypes on reading NetCDF solution files.
- |new| (BETA) Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) capabilities, when using
purchasecost and/orunits.max/min/equalsconstraints. Integer/Binary decision variables will be applied to the relevant technology-location sets, avoiding unnecessary complexity by describing all technologies with these decision variables.
- |changed| YAML parser is now ruamel_yaml, not pyyaml. This allows scientific notation of numbers in YAML files (#57)
- |fixed| Description of PV technology in urban scale example model now more realistic
- |fixed| Optional ramping constraint no longer uses backward-incompatible definitions (#55)
- |fixed| One-way transmission no longer forces unidirectionality in the wrong direction
- |fixed| Edge case timeseries resource combinations, where infinite resource sneaks into an incompatible constraint, are now flagged with a warning and ignored in that constraint (#61)
- |fixed| e_cap.equals: 0 sets a technology to a capacity of zero, instead of ignoring the constraint (#63)
- |fixed| depreciation_getter now changes with location overrides, instead of just checking the technology level constraints (#64)
- |fixed| Time clustering now functions in models with time-varying costs (#66)
- |changed| Solution now includes time-varying costs (costs_variable)
- |fixed| Saving to NetCDF does not affect in-memory solution (#62)
- |changed| Calliope now uses Python 3.6 by default. From Calliope 0.6.0 on, Python 3.6 will likely become the minimum required version.
- |fixed| Fixed a bug in distance calculation if both lat/lon metadata and distances for links were specified.
- |fixed| Fixed a bug in storage constraints when both
s_capande_capwere constrained but noc_ratewas given. - |fixed| Fixed a bug in the system margin constraint.
|new| |backwards-incompatible| Better coordinate definitions in metadata. Location coordinates are now specified by a dictionary with either lat/lon (for geographic coordinates) or x/y (for generic Cartesian coordinates), e.g. {lat: 40, lon: -2} or {x: 0, y: 1}. For geographic coordinates, the map_boundary definition for plotting was also updated in accordance. See the built-in example models for details.
|new| Unidirectional transmission links are now possible. See the documentation on transmission links.
- |fixed| Missing urban-scale example model files are now included in the distribution
- |fixed| Edge cases in
conversion_plusconstraints addressed - |changed| Documentation improvements
|new| Urban-scale example model, major revisions to the documentation to accommodate it, and a new calliope.examples module to hold multiple example models. In addition, the calliope new command now accepts a --template option to select a template other than the default national-scale example model, e.g.: calliope new my_urban_model --template=UrbanScale.
|new| Allow technologies to generate revenue (by specifying negative costs)
|new| Allow technologies to export their carrier directly to outside the system boundary
|new| Allow storage & supply_plus technologies to define a charge rate (c_rate), linking storage capacity (s_cap) with charge/discharge capacity (e_cap) by s_cap * c_rate => e_cap. As such, either s_cap.max & c_rate or e_cap.max & c_rate can be defined for a technology. The smallest of s_cap.max * c_rate and e_cap.max will be taken if all three are defined.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Revised technology definitions and internal definition of sets and subsets, in particular subsets of various technology types. Supply technologies are now split into two types: supply and supply_plus. Most of the more advanced functionality of the original supply technology is now contained in supply_plus, making it necessary to update model definitions accordingly. In addition to the existing conversion technology type, a new more complex conversion_plus was added.
- |changed| |backwards-incompatible| Creating a
Model()with no arguments now raises aModelErrorrather than returning an instance of the built-in national-scale example model. Use the newcalliope.examplesmodule to access example models. - |changed| Improvements to the national-scale example model and its tutorial notebook
- |changed| Removed SolutionModel class
- |fixed| Other minor fixes
- |new| Allow profiling with the
--profileand--profile_filenamecommand-line options - |new| Permit setting random seed with
random_seedin the run configuration - |changed| Updated installation documentation using conda-forge package
- |fixed| Other minor fixes
|new| Added new methods to deal with time resolution: clustering, resampling, and heuristic timestep selection
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Major change to solution data structure. Model solution is now returned as a single xarray DataSet instead of multiple pandas DataFrames and Panels. Instead of as a generic HDF5 file, complete solutions can be saved as a NetCDF4 file via xarray's NetCDF functionality.
While the recommended way to save and process model results is by NetCDF4, CSV saving functionality has now been upgraded for more flexibility. Each variable is saved as a separate CSV file with a single value column and as many index columns as required.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Model data structures simplified and based on xarray
- |new| Functionality to post-process parallel runs into aggregated NetCDF files in
calliope.read - |changed| Pandas 0.18/0.19 compatibility
- |changed| 1.11 is now the minimum required numpy version. This version makes datetime64 tz-naive by default, thus preventing some odd behavior when displaying time series.
- |changed| Improved logging, status messages, and error reporting
- |fixed| Other minor fixes
|changed| Per-location configuration overrides improved. All technology constraints can now be set on a per-location basis, as can costs. This applies to the following settings:
techname.x_maptechname.constraints.*techname.constraints_per_distance.*techname.costs.*
The following settings cannot be overridden on a per-location basis:
- Any other options directly under
techname, such astechname.parentortechname.carrier techname.costs_per_distance.*techname.depreciation.*
- |fixed| Improved installation instructions
- |fixed| Pyomo 4.2 API compatibility
- |fixed| Other minor fixes
- |fixed| Version 0.3.5 changes were not reflected in tutorial
|new| New constraint to constrain total (model-wide) installed capacity of a technology (e_cap.total_max), in addition to its per-node capacity (e_cap.max)
|changed| Removed the level option for locations. Level is now implicitly derived from the nested structure given by the within settings. Locations that define no or an empty within are implicitly at the topmost (0) level.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Revised configuration of capacity constraints: e_cap_max becomes e_cap.max, addition of e_cap.min and e_cap.equals (analogous for r_cap, s_cap, rb_cap, r_area). The e_cap.equals constraint supersedes e_cap_max_force (analogous for the other constraints). No backwards-compatibility is retained, models must change all constraints to the new formulation. See :ref:config_reference_constraints for a complete list of all available constraints. Some additional constraints have name changes:
e_cap_max_scalebecomese_cap_scalerb_cap_followsbecomesrb_cap_follow, and addition ofrb_cap_follow_modes_time_maxbecomess_time.max
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| All optional constraints are now grouped together, under constraints.optional:
constraints.group_fraction.group_fractionbecomesconstraints.optional.group_fractionconstraints.ramping.ramping_ratebecomesconstraints.optional.ramping_rate
- |new| analysis.map_results function to extract solution details from multiple parallel runs
- |new| Various other additions to analysis functionality, particularly in the analysis_utils module
- |new| analysis.get_levelized_cost to get technology and location specific costs
- |new| Allow dynamically loading time mask functions
- |changed| Improved summary table in the model solution: now shows only aggregate information for transmission technologies, also added missing
s_capcolumn and technology type - |fixed| Bug causing some total levelized transmission costs to be infinite instead of zero
- |fixed| Bug causing some CSV solution files to be empty
- |fixed| Bug in construction and fixed O&M cost calculations in operational mode
|changed| In preparation for future enhancements, the ordering of location levels is flipped. The top-level locations at which balancing takes place is now level 0, and may contain level 1 locations. This is a backwards-incompatible change.
|changed| |backwards-incompatible| Refactored time resolution adjustment functionality. Can now give a list of masks in the run configuration which will all be applied, via time.masks, with a base resolution via time.resolution (or instead, as before, load a resolution series from file via time.file). Renamed the time_functions submodule to time_masks.
- |new| Models and runs can have a
name - |changed| More verbose
calliope run - |changed| Analysis tools restructured
- |changed| Renamed
debug.keepfilessetting todebug.keep_temp_filesand better documented debug configuration
- |new| Run setting
model_overrideallows specifying the path to a YAML file with overrides for the model configuration, applied at model initialization (path is given relative to the run configuration file used). This is in addition to the existingoverridesetting, and is applied first (sooverridecan overridemodel_override). - |new| Run settings
output.save_constraintsandoutput.save_constraints_options - |new| Run setting
parallel.post_run - |changed| Solution column names more in line with model component names
- |changed| Can specify more than one output format as a list, e.g.
output.format: ['csv', 'hdf'] - |changed| Run setting
parallel.additional_linesrenamed toparallel.pre_run - |changed| Better error messages and CLI error handling
- |fixed| Bug on saving YAML files with numpy dtypes fixed
- Other minor improvements and fixes
- Fixes to time_functions
- Other minor improvements and fixes
- Python 3 and Pyomo 4 are now minimum requirements
- Significantly improved documentation
- Improved model solution management by saving to HDF5 instead of CSV
- Calculate shares of technologies, including the ability to define groups for the purpose of computing shares
- Improved operational mode
- Simplified time_tools
- Improved output plotting, including dispatch, transmission flows, and installed capacities, and added model configuration to support these plots
rcan be specified as power or energy- Improved solution speed
- Better error messages and basic logging
- Better sanity checking and error messages for common mistakes
- Basic distance-dependent constraints (only implemented for e_loss and cost of e_cap for now)
- Other improvements and fixes
- Added cost classes with a new set
k - Added energy carriers with a new set
c - Added conversion technologies
- Speed improvements and simplifications
- Ability to arbitrarily nest model configuration files with
importstatements - Added additional constraints
- Improved configuration handling
- Ability to define timestep options in run configuration
- Cleared up terminology (nodes vs locations)
- Improved TimeSummarizer masking and added new masks
- Removed technology classes
- Improved operational mode with results output matching planning mode and dynamic updating of parameters in model instance
- Working parallel_tools
- Improved documentation
- Apache 2.0 licensed
- Other improvements and fixes
- Some semblance of documentation
- Usable built-in example model
- Improved and working TimeSummarizer
- More flexible masking for TimeSummarizer
- Ability to add additional constraints without editing core source code
- Some basic test coverage
- Working parallel run configuration system