Pre-Processing

This page will explain how to Pre-Processing to prepare the Balmorel and Antares models. The main part of the Antares model was prepared using the OSMOSE WP1 model, while the Balmorel model is based on the master branch from 7. January 2025. The output of these steps result in the Balmorel data of the BAF branch, which can just be downloaded if you just wish to apply the framework.

Tasks

The entire preprocessing workflow can be run using snakemake, by simply running snakemake in the src folder. This will run a bunch of pixi tasks, which could also be run individually with pixi run <task-name>. If you used a conda installation, replace the shell commands in the src/Workflow/snakefile with the commands defined in pixi.toml under the [tasks] category. More details on the individual tasks are written below.

Generate Mapping

To generate spatial and technological mapping dictionaries between the models, run the generate-mapping task. The Python function generate_mapping is hard-coded with names of technologies, fuels and regions. The tasks below depends on the output of this task.

Generate Antares VRE

Generates the Antares solar, on- and offshore wind profiles with renewables in the cluster setting.

Generate Balmorel Timeseries

Generates the Balmorel timeseries for VRE (solar, on- and offshore wind) and exogenous electricity demand.

Generate Balmorel Hydro

Generates the Balmorel hydro data for reservoir, run-of-river and pumped storage.