sigrid (PSS sincal importer for grids) contains Python based scripts to import networks from PSS Sincal (xml-cim format) and convert them to PyPSA and TESPy networks. It was developed during the EU-funded project ES-Flex-Infra by Christian Brosig and is now published as a free package in the hope, that it may be useful to others. Feel free to further develop it!

As the standard of XML-Cim allows a lot of different approaches for the definition of some network parameters, this program is just one way to import this data. It is very limited and there is no warranty for it! The import to TESPy is still very limited and not at all ready to be used.

Documentation

The package consists of the modules xml_import, xml_to_pypsa and xml_to_tespy. xml_import is the base class and provides basic functionality. xml_to_pypsa implements filters to acquire the necessary data for pypsa and provides further functionality to test and process the grid. xml_to_tespy does the same for the tespy environment

Installation

There is no integration in PyPSA or TESPy yet. To use this package, just clone it. It depends on the following packages, that are not in the standard library: * pandas * networkx * utm * pypsa * tespy

HOW-TO

Import the Importer:

from xml_to_pypsa import ImporterXMLSincal

Specify the name of the folder containing the xml-files and its upper directory (example shows the case, that the directory is the working directory):

dirname = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
foldername = 'your_folder'

Create an instance of the importer and import the xml-files to dataframes:

imp = ImporterXMLSincal('name_of_your_network',
                      foldername=foldername,
                      path=dirname)
imp.import_xml()

Convert the dataframes to PyPSA components, import them to a PyPSA network and do a linear power flow:

imp.dfstocomponents()
imp.importnetwork()
imp.check_connectivity()
imp.network.lpf()

License

Copyright (C) 2018/2019 TH Köln, Christian Brosig.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.