ENH: auto-generate a Reference Energy System (RES) diagram

[abhishek0208]

Feature Type

• Adding new functionality to tz-osemosys

• Changing existing functionality in tz-osemosys

• Removing existing functionality in tz-osemosys

Problem Description

The first step when building a model is to create a reference energy system (RES). This is what the desired representation of a system's configuration in the model; which are the input and output commodities of different assets, what the is the level of spatial aggregation, what is the system boundary etc.

An example of a RES is below:

Feature Description

It would be useful if tz-osemosys could auto-generate such a RES based on inputs to the model. This would be based on the input_activity_ratio and output_activity_ratio values.

I see it being used as follows:

model = Model.from_yaml('/path/to/yaml')
model.generate_res('/path/to/res')

... writes a static RES file. If the RES looks ok

model.solve()