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This might be cool for the data repository like interactive browsing of country data or installed capacities.

Example (we could already link it from README.rst): https://github.com/ckaldemeyer/sandbox/blob/master/test.geojson

Even better would be to embed it into the README which I have just asked: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40866459/embed-rendered-geojson-files-in-readme-rst-restructuredtext-on-github

This is of course for later, later. But I think it would be cool. What do you think?

Should we format the whole thing into as a Python programm (if name ...) to be a bit more standard?

We need it for the tests anyway..

In the figure of renpassgis in the documentation in the input data, there is written two times "fixed generation costs". Should this be one time "variable" generation costs? Who has the template for the png file and can fix this?

So far the passed options "date-from" and "date-to" are only used to create a DatetimeIndex on the rows that are read from the CSV-reader but not as a real selector that enables slicing certain date ranges from the file "nodes_flows_seq.csv".

For the first release we just add a hint on this problem as we have to wait for the next oemof release to implement this in the CSV-reader.

The idea would be to pass these arguments to the CSV-reader and slice there, e.g.:

nodes = NodesFromCSV(
                     ...
                     date_from=arguments['--date-from'],
                     date_to=arguments['--date-to']
                     delimiter=',')

Where is actually the documentation file? And is it finished?

I couldn't find it on dev and meanwhile -as some people want to use renpass_gis and keep on asking questions- it would be good to have it as a reference.

I think we can clean up this repository and release the v0.1 soon (maybe when data stuff is clarified). For me it makes sense, as it's based on oemof.solph v0.1 which has been tested quit a lot and works
fine. We could do some polishing for the first version. But I to not think we should start with 0.0.1...

What do you think:
@ckaldemeyer, @S3PP

Some one else who is contribution here?

We could make renpass citable by linking this repository to a open-science framework renpass-gis account. What do you think?

For storages capacity refers to energy whereas for powerplant it refers to power. This should be fixed as it is 1) kind of confusing 2) more importantly cause trouble for plotting e.g. installed power / capacities...

Any ideas?

Sönke is currently using renpassgis and will probably have some important input on the csv-reader user perspective. We should use this momentum to create a description on how to use this one. Maybe build it inside oemof and link it here inside this repository. This is of course linked to #5

Maybe just one readme page, very simple:

• How to get it
• How to use

There may be multiple optimal solutions at the current formulation and implementation. This should be considered when analyzing e.g. usage of grid or storage.

E.g.:

• Two storages with similar parameters in two different regions may be interchangeable in terms of operation. How should be decided which storage to use, e.g. in Switzerland or Germany?
• Which production plants are curtailed in times of excess energy (and therefore what region exports in these circumstances)?

There should be at least one simple exampel that can be run I think

We tried to use use the renpassgis under Windows but couldn't run it. @S3PP @soenkebohm Do you have any experience?

How is your work flow?

Ideas/suggestions can be collected here!

When the CSV-reader has been streamlined (https://github.com/oemof/oemof/issues/251) the block can be removed

Should we have a renpass-gis data repository? We could then have different scenarios there structured by folders. Also this one could be private or on the uni server, so that we do not have any problems with data licensing. Then, maybe we do not end up with 20 feature branches and the feature branches can be used for code development. We then need to make sure that all scenarios work with renpassgis version x.x.

See: https://github.com/oemof/oemof/pull/294#issuecomment-291136291

The interface will change with v.0.2.X since the nodes are now created from a dataframe within a scenario class..

This example currently does not work with oemof version2.2. Don't know where the error is caused (renpass or oemof)

https://github.com/znes/renpass/blob/dev/renpass/examples/scripting/dispatch.py

I guess GPL 3 ? We should add it then to the first release...and on OSF

I installed the new version of renpassG!S as recommend on the Github site. I cloned the repository using the terminal command:
git clone https://github.com/znes/renpass.git
In running the test example: python renpass.py examples/investment/datapackage.json

Precision-5520:~/renpass$ python renpass.py examples/investment/datapackage.json
python: can't open file 'renpass.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory.

Can someone tell me how to fix this error?

For investment we need place to set for example WACC etc.

@uvchik proposed to install directly from the repository: https://github.com/oemof/oemof/issues/256#issuecomment-262186843

Like this: pip install git+https://github.com/rl-institut/geoplot.git

Should we do it like this or leave it as it is?

I would vote for following the suggestion if the app is ready for command line use and problem-unspecific.

I have added my latest improvements to dev: https://github.com/znes/renpass_gis/tree/dev

@S3PP : Once the command line option (#9) has been implemented, it has to integrated in the Usage-Section

@simnh : Any suggestions?

Related to oemof/oemof#382

For more information have a look at oemof/oemof/doc/whatsnew.

Thanks for all your effort. But shouldn't the README contain a description what renpass is before giving instructions how to install it, ... ?

It doesn't need figures but I think otherwise people are quite lost as I have experienced quite some questions in the past even with a for my opinion quite extensive description what it actually is.

Should we decide on some main responsibilities are at least on who is involved in decision making processes inside this repository?

• Who to assign
• With whom are pull request dicussed
• Set some guidelines for contribution (feature branches etc)
  ....

When renpass_gis creates csv result-files the file name includes a blank space, which causes errors in Windows. The function 'datetime' creates the date including a blank space, so it's not that easy to delete it. For my calculation, I solved it manually but thats not a good solution.