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PyPSA meets Africa

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PyPSA meets Africa is a free and open source software initiative aiming to develop a powerful energy system model for Africa. The tool which is currently under development and will be heavily based on PyPSA and PyPSA-Eur. In 2022 we will focus on Earth wide expansion. Stay tuned and join our mission!

A short presentation about our project and its aims is given on our website. There you can also sign-up to our Newsletter. Watch our latest discussion with African leaders about Open Energy System Modelling in Africa: State of the Art and Future Opportunities. Let's work together for a better future.

Get involved

There are multiple ways to get involved and learn more about our work. That's how we organise ourselves:

  • Discord NEW! (Open)
    • Chat with the community, team up on features, exchange with developers, code in voice channels

  • General code meeting (Open)
    • every second Thursday 16-17:00 (UK time) download .ics
    • join for project news and high-level code updates
    • meeting on Zoom, password: energy101
    • open agenda. See what we will discuss. Invited members have edit rights.
  • Buddy talk (Open)
  • Specific code meeting (by invitation)
    • current meetings: 1) AI asset detection (WP6) and 2) Data workflow updates (covering WP1-WP5)
    • every week Friday 1) 14-14:45 (UK time), 2) 15-16:00 (UK time)
    • updates, demos, task distribution, weekly targets, Q&A
  • Outreach meeting (by invitation)
    • every second week
    • planning, discussing events, workshops, communication, community activities
  • Google Drive (by invitation)
    • access to presentations, lists, documents

Installation

  1. Open your terminal at a location where you want to install pypsa-africa. Type the following in your terminal to download the package from GitHub:
    .../some/path/without/spaces % git clone https://github.com/pypsa-meets-africa/pypsa-africa.git
  1. The python package requirements are curated in the envs/environment.yaml file. The environment can be installed using:
    .../pypsa-africa % conda env create -f envs/environment.yaml
  1. For running the optimization one has to install the solver. We can recommend the open source HiGHs solver which installation manual is given here.

  2. To use jupyter lab (new jupyter notebooks) continue with the ipython kernel installation and test if your jupyter lab works:

    .../pypsa-africa % ipython kernel install --user --name=pypsa-africa

    .../pypsa-africa % jupyter lab

Test run on tutorial

  • In the folder open a terminal/command window to be located at this path ~/pypsa-africa/
  • Activate the environment conda activate pypsa-africa
  • Rename config.tutorial.yaml to config.yaml. For instance in Linux:
    mv config.tutorial.yaml config.yaml 
  • Run a dryrun of the Snakemake workflow by typing simply in the terminal:
    snakemake -j 1 solve_all_networks -n
    Remove the -n to do a real run. Follow the tutorial of PyPSA-Eur 1 and 2 on YouTube to continue with an analysis.

Documentation

The documentation is available here: documentation.

Collaborators

hazemakhalek
Hazemakhalek
jarry7
Jarrad Wright
fneum
Fabian Neumann
euronion
Euronion
mnm-matin
Mnm-matin
desenk
Desen Kirli
pz-max
Max Parzen
Cesare-Caputo
Cesare-Caputo
Nayara2020
Nayara2020
Ay-Khi
Ayman Alkhirbash
koen-vg
Koen Van Greevenbroek
Hazem-IEG
Hazem-IEG
energyLS
EnergyLS
davide-f
Davide-f
restyled-commits
Restyled Commits
ekatef
Ekaterina
Tooblippe
Tobie
LukasFrankenQ
Lukas Franken

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PyPSA meets Africa: An Open Source Optimisation Model of the African Energy System. Our website: https://pypsa-meets-africa.github.io/

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