PyPSA-Eur-Sec Version 0.5.0

See the release notes:

https://pypsa-eur-sec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes.html#pypsa-eur-sec-0-5-0-21st-may-2021

Author: nworbmot

config.default.yaml

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-version: 0.4.0
+version: 0.5.0
 
 logging_level: INFO
 

doc/conf.py

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 # built documents.
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 # The short X.Y version.
-version = u'0.4'
+version = u'0.5'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'0.4.0'
+release = u'0.5.0'
 
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doc/release_notes.rst

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 Future release
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+==============
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+* Include new features here.
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+PyPSA-Eur-Sec 0.5.0 (21st May 2021)
+===================================
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+This release includes improvements to the cost database for building retrofits, carbon budget management and wildcard settings, as well as an import bugfix for the emissions from land transport.
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+This release is known to work with `PyPSA-Eur <https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur>`_ Version 0.3.0 and `Technology Data <https://github.com/PyPSA/technology-data>`_ Version 0.2.0.
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+Please note that the data bundle has also been updated.
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+New features and bugfixes:
 
-* For the myopic investment option, a carbon budget and a type of decay (exponential or beta) can be selected in the ``config.yaml`` file to distribute the budget across the ``planning_horizons``. For example, ``cb40ex0`` in the ``{sector_opts}`` wildcard will distribute a carbon budget of 40 GtCO2 following an exponential decay with initial growth rate 0.
 * The cost database for retrofitting of the thermal envelope of buildings has been updated. Now, for calculating the space heat savings of a building, losses by thermal bridges and ventilation are included as well as heat gains (internal and by solar radiation). See the section :ref:`retro` for more details on the retrofitting module.
+* For the myopic investment option, a carbon budget and a type of decay (exponential or beta) can be selected in the ``config.yaml`` file to distribute the budget across the ``planning_horizons``. For example, ``cb40ex0`` in the ``{sector_opts}`` wildcard will distribute a carbon budget of 40 GtCO2 following an exponential decay with initial growth rate 0.
 * Added an option to alter the capital cost or maximum capacity of carriers by a factor via ``carrier+factor`` in the ``{sector_opts}`` wildcard. This can be useful for exploring uncertain cost parameters. Example: ``solar+c0.5`` reduces the ``capital_cost`` of solar to 50\% of original values. Similarly ``solar+p3`` multiplies the ``p_nom_max`` by 3.
 * Rename the bus for European liquid hydrocarbons from ``Fischer-Tropsch`` to ``EU oil``, since it can be supplied not just with the Fischer-Tropsch process, but also with fossil oil.
 * Bugfix: The new separation of land transport by carrier in Version 0.4.0 failed to account for the carbon dioxide emissions from internal combustion engines. This is now treated as a negative load on the atmospheric carbon dioxide bus, just like aviation emissions.
 * Bugfix: Fix reading in of ``pypsa-eur/resources/powerplants.csv`` to PyPSA-Eur Version 0.3.0 (use column attribute name ``DateIn`` instead of old ``YearDecommissioned``).
 * Bugfix: Make sure that ``Store`` components (battery and H2) are also removed from PyPSA-Eur, so they can be added later by PyPSA-Eur-Sec.
 
+Thanks to Lisa Zeyen (KIT) for the retrofitting improvements and Marta Victoria (Aarhus University) for the carbon budget and wildcard management.
 
 PyPSA-Eur-Sec 0.4.0 (11th December 2020)
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