Retrieving Data

Retrieving Data#

Not all data dependencies are shipped with the git repository, since git is not suited for handling large changing files. Instead we provide separate data bundles which can be obtained using the retrieve* rules.

Rule retrieve_databundle#

Rule retrieve_eurostat_data#

Rule retrieve_jrc_idees#

Rule retrieve_eurostat_household_data#

Rule retrieve_co2stop#

Rule retrieve_gas_infrastructure_data#

Rule retrieve_osm_data#

Rule retrieve_bidding_zones#

Retrieves bidding zone shape files from two sources. electricitymaps-contrib provides shape files for all the zones on a global level. entsoe-py provides country level shape files which are concatenated into one file. The electricitymaps-contrib data is preferred, but the Italian bidding zones from entsoe-py are more accurate.

Outputs#

  • data/busshapes/bidding_zones_electricitymaps.geojson:

  • data/busshapes/bidding_zones_entsoepy.geojson:

Rule retrieve_cutout#

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Cutouts are spatio-temporal subsets of the European weather data from the ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis dataset and the CMSAF SARAH-3 solar surface radiation dataset for the year 2013, 2019 or 2023. They have been prepared by and are for use with the atlite tool. You can either generate them yourself using the build_cutouts rule or retrieve them directly from zenodo through the rule retrieve_cutout. The Tutorial: Electricity-Only uses a smaller cutout than required for the full model (30 MB), which is also automatically downloaded.

Note

To download cutouts yourself from the ECMWF ERA5 you need to set up the CDS API.

Relevant Settings

tutorial:
enable:
    build_cutout:

See also

Documentation of the configuration file config/config.yaml at Top-level configuration

Outputs

  • cutouts/{cutout}: weather data from either the ERA5 reanalysis weather dataset and/or SARAH-3 satellite-based historic weather data.

See also

For details see build_cutout and read the atlite documentation.

Rule retrieve_electricity_demand#

This rule downloads hourly electric load data for each country from the OPSD platform.

Relevant Settings

None.

Outputs

  • data/electricity_demand_raw.csv

Rule retrieve_cost_data#

This rule downloads techno-economic assumptions from the technology-data repository.

Relevant Settings

enable:
    retrieve_cost_data:

costs:
    year:
    version:

See also

Documentation of the configuration file config/config.yaml at costs

Outputs

  • resources/costs.csv

Rule retrieve_ship_raster#

This rule downloads data on global shipping traffic density from the World Bank Data Catalogue.

Relevant Settings

None.

Outputs

  • data/shipdensity_global.zip

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