gb-dispatch-model: Great Britain dispatch model built on the PyPSA-Eur workflow

About

gb-dispatch-model is an extension of PyPSA-Eur., used to quantify dispatch decisions in Great Britain under the conditions set out by the UK Future Energy Scenarios.

Quick start

First, follow our installation steps.

You can then run the full workflow by calling:

pixi run model

This will run all the data processing and dispatch (unconstrained) + redispatch (constrained) optimisation steps using the default GB configuration.

The optimisation steps are the most resource intensive parts of the process. To run only the data processing steps, call:

pixi run compose_networks

To run the optimisation steps but with a simplified network (namely, with a coarser time dimension to create a smaller optimisation problem), call:

pixi run model --configfile 'config/config.gb.time-segment.yaml'

You can further aggregate the time dimension by updating the content of config/config.gb.time-segment.yaml, considering the available PyPSA options.

Workflow

The full workflow rulegraph is shown below. Open the image in a new tab/window to view it in more detail.

Note

The graph above was generated using snakemake --rulegraph -F gb_all | sed -n "/digraph/,/}/p" | dot -Tsvg -o doc/gb-model/img/workflow.svg

Operating Systems

The gb-dispatch-model workflow is continuously tested for Linux, macOS and Windows (WSL only).