Metadata-Version: 2.0
Name: FINE
Version: 0.9.0
Summary: Framework for integrated energy systems assessment
Home-page: https://github.com/FZJ-IEK3-VSA/FINE
Author: Lara Welder
Author-email: l.welder@fz-juelich.de
License: UNKNOWN
Keywords: energy system,optimization
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: End Users/Desktop
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Requires-Dist: numpy (>=1.11.3)
Requires-Dist: pandas (>=0.19.2)
Requires-Dist: pyomo (>=5.5.0)
Requires-Dist: tsam (>=0.9.9)

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# FINE - Framework for Integrated Energy System Assessment

The FINE python package provides a framework for modeling, optimizing and assessing energy systems. With the provided framework, systems with multiple regions, commodities and time steps can be modeled. Target of the optimization is the minimization of the total annual cost while considering technical and enviromental constraints. Besides using the full temporal resolution, an interconnected typical period storage formulation can be applied, that reduces the complexity and computational time of the model.

If you want to use FINE in a published work, please [**kindly cite following publication**](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421830879X) which gives a description of the first stages of the framework. The python package which provides the time series aggregation module and its corresponding literatur can be found [**here**](https://github.com/FZJ-IEK3-VSA/tsam).

## Features
* representation of an energy system by multiple locations, commodities and time steps
* complexity reducing storage formulation based on typical periods

## Installation
Install via pip by cloning a local copy of the repository to your computer

	git clone https://github.com/FZJ-IEK3-VSA/FINE.git

Alternatively, you can download it as ZIP file.

Then install FINE via pip as follow

	cd FINE
	pip install . 

Or install directly via python as 

	python setup.py install


## Examples

A [**first example**](examples/Multi-regional%20Energy%20System%20Workflow/Multi-regional%20Energy%20System%20Workflow.ipynb) shows the capabilites of FINE as jupyter notebook

## License

MIT License

Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Lara Welder (FZJ IEK-3), Jochen LinÃŸen (FZJ IEK-3), Martin Robinius (FZJ IEK-3), Detlef Stolten (FZJ IEK-3)

You should have received a copy of the MIT License along with this program.
If not, see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

## About Us 
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We are the [Process and Systems Analysis](http://www.fz-juelich.de/iek/iek-3/EN/Forschung/_Process-and-System-Analysis/_node.html) department at the [Institute of Energy and Climate Research: Electrochemical Process Engineering (IEK-3)](http://www.fz-juelich.de/iek/iek-3/EN/Home/home_node.html) belonging to the Forschungszentrum JÃ¼lich. Our interdisciplinary department's research is focusing on energy-related process and systems analyses. Data searches and system simulations are used to determine energy and mass balances, as well as to evaluate performance, emissions and costs of energy systems. The results are used for performing comparative assessment studies between the various systems. Our current priorities include the development of energy strategies, in accordance with the German Federal Governmentâ€™s greenhouse gas reduction targets, by designing new infrastructures for sustainable and secure energy supply chains and by conducting cost analysis studies for integrating new technologies into future energy market frameworks.


## Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Helmholtz Association under the Joint Initiative ["Energy System 2050   A Contribution of the Research Field Energy"](https://www.helmholtz.de/en/research/energy/energy_system_2050/).

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