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Sizing residential PV battery systems

This tool feeds directly from a .xlsx file containing PV Generation and PV Consumption data and simulates different battery sizes providing the user with an individual data file capturing the energy flow behavior for each battery size, as well as its own interactive plot. Additionally, it also provides with a comparison of the energetic assessment criteria used in this project, the self-consumption rate and the degree of self-sufficiency to evaluate the simulations.

Features

Calculate:

Energy Directly used (Edu)
Energy Used for charging the battery (Ebc)
Grid Consumption
Ebd Energy Battery Discharge
Self-consumption rate
Plot final data
Creates file with final data
Grid feed-in
Degree of self-sufficiency (d)

Requirements

Python 2.7+
Matplotlib
xlrd (for excel examples)

Documentation

Docs: https://docs.python.org/2.7/
matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org/users/installing.html

Usage

Installation. In case of Linux or Mac, open terminal:

$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install xlrd
$ python -mpip install -U pip
$ python -mpip install -U matplotlib

Download

$ cd Downloads/
$ git clone https://github.com/RaquelVasquez/SizingResidentialPVbatterysystems.git

Run

$ cd SizingResidentialPVbatterysystems/
$ python batterySim.py

Running

You need to write the name of the .xlsx file
The .xlsx file must contain 3 columns called: Time, Consumption (W) and PV generation
You need to write the price of the trading of Energy
This code have to be at the same folder of the .xlsx file

Communication