Package: powerplantmatching
powerplantmatchingA toolset for cleaning, standardizing and combining multiple power
plant databases.This package provides ready-to-use power plant data for the European power system.
Starting from openly available power plant datasets, the package cleans, standardizes
and merges the input data to create a new combined dataset, which includes all the important information.
The package allows to easily update the combined data as soon as new input datasets are released.You can directlydownload the current version of the dataas a CSV file.Initially, powerplantmatching was developed by theRenewable Energy GroupatFIASand is now maintained by theDigital Transformation in Energy Systems Groupat the Technical University of Berlin to build power plant data
inputs toPyPSA-based models for carrying
out simulations.Main Featuresclean and standardize power plant data setsaggregate power plant units which belong to the same plantcompare and combine different data setscreate lookups and give statistical insight to power plant goodnessprovide cleaned data from different sourceschoose between gross/net capacityprovide an already merged data set of multiple different open data sourcesscale the power plant capacities in order to match country-specific statistics about total power plant capacitiesvisualize the dataexport your powerplant data to aPyPSA-based modelInstallationUsing pippipinstallpowerplantmatchingor condacondainstall-cconda-forgepowerplantmatchingContributing and SupportWe strongly welcome anyone interested in contributing to this project. If you have any ideas, suggestions or encounter problems, feel invited to file issues or make pull requests on GitHub.In case of code-relatedquestions, please post onstack overflow.For non-programming related and more general questions please refer to thePyPSA mailing list.Todiscusswith other PyPSA & technology-data users, organise projects, share news, and get in touch with the community you can use thediscord server.Forbugs and feature requests, please use thepowerplantmatching Github Issues page.Citing powerplantmatchingIf you want to cite powerplantmatching, use the following paperF. Gotzens, H. Heinrichs, J. Hörsch, and F. Hofmann,Performing energy modelling exercises in a transparent way - The issue of data quality in power plant databases, Energy Strategy Reviews, vol. 23, pp. 1–12, Jan. 2019.with bibtex@article{gotzens_performing_2019,
 title = {Performing energy modelling exercises in a transparent way - {The} issue of data quality in power plant databases},
 volume = {23},
 issn = {2211467X},
 url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211467X18301056},
 doi = {10.1016/j.esr.2018.11.004},
 language = {en},
 urldate = {2018-12-03},
 journal = {Energy Strategy Reviews},
 author = {Gotzens, Fabian and Heinrichs, Heidi and Hörsch, Jonas and Hofmann, Fabian},
 month = jan,
 year = {2019},
 pages = {1--12}
}and/or the current release stored on Zenodo with a release-specific DOI:LicenceCopyright 2018-2022 Fabian Hofmann (EnSys TU Berlin), Fabian Gotzens (FZ Jülich), Jonas Hörsch (KIT),powerplantmatching is released as free software under theGPLv3, seeLICENSEfor further information.