gather_specifications

powerplantmatching.cleaning.gather_specifications(df, target_columns=['Fueltype', 'Technology', 'Set'], parse_columns=['Name', 'Fueltype', 'Technology', 'Set'], config=None)

Parse columns to collect representative keys.

This function will parse the columns specified in parse_columns and collects the representative keys for each row in target_columns. The parsing is based on the config file.

Parameters:

• df (pandas.DataFrame) – Power plant dataframe.

• target_columns (list, optional) – Columns where the representative keys will be collected, by default [“Fueltype”, “Technology”, “Set”]

• parse_columns (list, optional) – Columns that should be parsed, by default [“Name”, “Fueltype”, “Technology”, “Set”]

• config (dict, default None) – Custom configuration, defaults to powerplantmatching.config.get_config().

Return type:

pandas.DataFrame