v0.0.1 Prototype release
What's Changed
This is the first release of PyPSA-Africa which heavily builds on PyPSA-Eur.
New Features and Major Changes
- Include new data streams for Africa model
- Demand data implementation from GEGIS. Demand can be chosen for weather years and socioeconomic
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scenarios. - Network is built, cleaned and processed solely on OpenStreetMap data
- OSM is fetched into Powerplantmatching
- Voronoi regions, where data is aggregated towards, can be replaced by administrative GADM zones.
- Augmented line expansion feature can make network meshed, connect isolated mini-grids to the main-grid.
- Community moved to Discord.
- Most meetings and agenda's are open, see here.
New Contributors
- @mnm-matin major contributor to build_osm_extractor.py
- @jarry7 made their first contribution in #20
- @davide-f made their first contribution in #36
- @Hazem-IEG made their first contribution in #110
- @koen-vg made their first contribution in #116
- @Tooblippe made their first contribution in #143
- @ekatef made their first contribution in #167
- @EmreYorat made their first contribution in #186
- @Ay-Khi contributor of global osm extractor
- @LukasFrankenQ
- @pz-max
Full Changelog: https://github.com/pypsa-meets-africa/pypsa-africa/commits/v0.0.1