/medea

power system model medea

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MIT License

medea

This repository contains code for the power system model medea, developed by Sebastian Wehrle and Johannes Schmidt.

medea was used to analyze district heating systems under high CO2 prices and is currently employed within the reFUEL project.

Requirements

  • at least 16 GB RAM, 32 GB recommended
  • python 3.6 or later
  • for python dependencies: see requirements.txt
  • GAMS 24.8 or later
  • a solver for mathematical programs, such as Gurobi

Installation of medea and its prerequisites

  • python: an easy, yet lightweight way to install python is via miniconda. python packages dependencies can be installed via

    conda install --yes --file requirements.txt

  • GAMS-python bindings: download and install GAMS, then follow these instructions to set up the GAMS-python API.

  • git: download and install git

  • medea: fork this repository (try the fork button in the upper right corner) to your github account. Then, copy the forked repository's url and git clone medea to your local disk.

Setting up medea

For medea to work properly, the variables folder and gams_sysdir in medea/config.py must point to the correct locations, i.e. folder must point to the local medea repository (e.g. D:\git_repos\medea) and gams_sysdir must point to the folder of the local GAMS installation that contains the GAMS executable. (On Windows this might be something like C:\GAMS\win64\27.1)

Getting started

For more information on how to use medea, please consult getting started.

For comments and bug reporting please contact Sebastian Wehrle.