General Structure¶
The dataset combines the data of all the data sources listed in Data-Sources and provides the following information:
- Power plant name - claim of each database
- Fueltype - {Solid Biomass, Biogas, Geothermal, Hard Coal, Hydro, Lignite, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Oil, Solar, Wind, Other}
- Technology - {CCGT, OCGT, Steam Turbine, Combustion Engine, Run-Of-River, Pumped Storage, Reservoir}
- Set - {Power Plant (PP), Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Storages (Stores)}
- Capacity - [MW]
- Duration - Maximum state of charge capacity in terms of hours at full output capacity
- Dam Information - Dam volume [Mm^3] and Dam Height [m]
- Geo-position - Latitude, Longitude
- Country - EU-27 + CH + NO (+ UK) minus Cyprus and Malta
- YearCommissioned - Commmisioning year of the powerplant
- RetroFit - Year of last retrofit
- projectID - Immutable identifier of the power plant
All data files of the package will be stored in the folder given by pm.core.package_config['data_dir']
Data Sources¶
- OPSD - Open Power System Data publish their data under a free license
- GEO - Global Energy Observatory, the data is not directly available on the website, but can be obtained from an sqlite
- OSM - OpenStreetMap Power Plants provides power plant data extracted from OpenStreetMap via the
osm-powerplantspackage (optional, not included in default configuration)