PowerGenome | easily create inputs for power systems models

Clone this repository to your local machine and navigate to the top level (PowerGenome) folder. Create a conda environment named powergenome using the provided environment.yml file. Download a modifed version of the PUDL database that includes NREL ATB cost data and is not yet included in PUDL. Download the renewable resource data containing generation profiles and capacity for existing and new-build renewable resources. Save and unzip this file. The suggested location for all of the unzipped files is PowerGenome/data/resource_groups/. These files will eventually be provided through a data repository with citation information. Get an API key for EIA's OpenData portal. This key is needed to download projected fuel prices from the 2019 Annual Energy Outlook. Create the file PowerGenome/powergenome/.env. To this file, add PUDL_DB=YOUR_PATH_HERE (your path to the PUDL database), EIA_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE (your EIA API key) and RESOURCE_GROUPS=YOUR_PATH_HERE (your path to where the resource groups data from Step 6 are saved). Quotation marks are only needed if your values contain spaces. The .env file is included in .gitignore and will not be synced with the repository. See the SQLAlchemy documentation for examples of how to format the PUDL_DB path (e.g. sqlite:////<entire path to the folder containing pudl file>/pudl_updated.sqlite).
Clone this repository to your local machine and navigate to the top level (PowerGenome) folder.
Create a conda environment named powergenome using the provided environment.yml file.
Activate the powergenome environment.
pip-install an editable version of this project
Download a modifed version of the PUDL database that includes NREL ATB cost data and is not yet included in PUDL.
Download the renewable resource data containing generation profiles and capacity for existing and new-build renewable resources. Save and unzip this file. The suggested location for all of the unzipped files is PowerGenome/data/resource_groups/. These files will eventually be provided through a data repository with citation information.
Get an API key for EIA's OpenData portal. This key is needed to download projected fuel prices from the 2019 Annual Energy Outlook.
Create the file PowerGenome/powergenome/.env. To this file, add PUDL_DB=YOUR_PATH_HERE (your path to the PUDL database), EIA_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY_HERE (your EIA API key) and RESOURCE_GROUPS=YOUR_PATH_HERE (your path to where the resource groups data from Step 6 are saved). Quotation marks are only needed if your values contain spaces. The .env file is included in .gitignore and will not be synced with the repository. See the SQLAlchemy documentation for examples of how to format the PUDL_DB path (e.g. sqlite:////<entire path to the folder containing pudl file>/pudl_updated.sqlite).
Update the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data used to adjust U.S. dollars for inflation (see https://github.com/datadesk/cpi#updating-the-cpi). Because the orignial cpi package takes ~30 seconds to load, PowerGenome includes a modified version that only stores a handfull of the BLS CPI tables. Update these tables by starting a python session and running: