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Data in this section is included in the PyPSA-Eur repository in the data folder. While most external data is stored outside of the repository, this data is inside the repository either for simplicity or historic reasons. New data should generally not be added to the data, but externally retrieved in a versioned manner.

data/entsoegridkit

  • Source: ENTSO-E
  • Link: https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/, extracted with https://github.com/PyPSA/GridKit/tree/master/entsoe
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Data of high-voltage transmission grid in Europe from ENTSO-E.

data/existing_infrastructure

  • Source: European Commission DG ENER; Mapping and analyses of the current and future (2020 - 2030) heating/cooling fuel deployment
  • Link: https://energy.ec.europa.eu/publications/mapping-and-analyses-current-and-future-2020-2030-heatingcooling-fuel-deployment-fossilrenewables-1_en
  • License: CC-BY 4.0 (reference)
  • Description: Contains country-level data on existing heating infrastructure, i.e. gas, oil, coal, biomass boilers, resistive heaters, air- and ground-sourced heat pumps.

data/retro/comparative_level_investment.csv

  • Source: Eurostat
  • Link: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Comparative_price_levels_for_investment
  • License: custom
  • Description: Contains data on comparative price levels for investment in Europe.

data/retro/data_building_stock.csv

  • Source: Simon Pezzutto, Stefano Zambotti, Silvia Croce, Pietro Zambelli, Giulia Garegnani, Chiara Scaramuzzino, Ramon Pascual Pascuas, Alyona Zubaryeva, Franziska Haas, Dagmar Exner (EURAC), Andreas Mueller (e-think), Michael Hartner (TUW), Tobias Fleiter, Anna-Lena Klingler, Matthias Kuehnbach, Pia Manz, Simon Marwitz, Matthias Rehfeldt, Jan Steinbach, Eftim Popovski (Fraunhofer ISI) Reviewed by Lukas Kranzl, Sara Fritz (TUW) Hotmaps Project, D2.3 WP2 Report - Open Data Set for the EU28, 2018 www.hotmaps-project.eu
  • Link: https://gitlab.com/hotmaps/building-stock
  • License: CC-BY 4.0
  • Description: Contains data on European building stock.

data/retro/electricity_taxes_eu.csv

  • Source: Eurostat
  • Link: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/NRG_PC_204/default/table?lang=en
  • License: custom
  • Description: Electricity prices for household consumers.

data/retro/floor_area_missing.csv and data/retro/u_values_poland.csv

  • Source: EU Building Stock Observatory
  • Link: https://data.europa.eu/euodp/de/data/dataset/building-stock-observatory
  • License: custom
  • Description: The EU Building Stock Observatory monitors the energy performance of buildings across Europe. It assesses improvements in the energy efficiency of buildings and the impact of this on the actual energy consumption of the buildings sector overall.

data/retro/retro_cost_germany.csv

  • Source: Institut Wohnen und Umwelt (IWU)
  • Link: https://www.iwu.de/forschung/handlungslogiken/kosten-energierelevanter-bau-und-anlagenteile-bei-modernisierung/
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Contains thermal envelop costs for retrofitting buildings in Germany.

data/retro/window_assumptions.csv

  • Source: ifeu, Fraunhofer IEE and Consentec (2018): Building sector Efficiency: A crucial Component of the Energy Transition. A study commissioned by Agora Energiewende.
  • Link: https://www.agora-energiewende.de/en/publications/building-sector-efficiency-a-crucial-component-of-the-energy-transition/
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Contains data on physical parameters of double- and triple-glazed windows.

data/transmission_projects/nep

  • Source: German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur, BNetzA)
  • Link: https://data.netzausbau.de/2037-2023/NEP/NEP_2037_2045_Bestaetigung.pdf
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Contains transmission projects in Europe from German network development plan (Netzentwicklungsplan).

data/transmission_projects/tyndp2020

  • Source: ENTSO-E
  • Link: https://tyndp2020-project-platform.azurewebsites.net/projectsheets
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Contains transmission projects in Europe from ENTSO-E Ten Year Network Development Plan (TYNDP).

data/ammonia_plants.csv

  • Source: manually collected, mostly from ICIS
  • Link: https://www.icis.com/explore/resources/news/2023/01/18/10846094/insight-poor-demand-high-costs-stifle-europe-industry-despite-falling-gas-prices/
  • License: CC-BY 4.0 (for compiled dataset)
  • Description: Locations and production capacities of ammonia plants in Europe.

data/cement_plants-noneu.csv

  • Source: manually collected, mostly from USGS
  • Link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/national-minerals-information-center/international-minerals-statistics-and-information
  • License: CC0 (reference)
  • Description: Contains energy balances for Europe.

data/ch_cantons.csv

  • Source: Wikipedia
  • Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_codes_for_Switzerland
  • License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
  • Description: Contains NUTS codes for regions in Switzerland.

data/ch_industrial_production_per_subsector.csv

  • Source: Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)
  • Link: https://pubdb.bfe.admin.ch/de/publication/download/11817
  • License: custom
  • Description: Contains energy consumption in industry and the service sector in Switzerland.

data/district_heat_share.csv

  • Source: Euroheat & Power
  • Link: https://www.euroheat.org/knowledge-hub/country-profiles
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Contains district heating shares for European countries.

data/egs_costs.json

  • Source: Arman Aghahosseini, Christian Breyer, From hot rock to useful energy: A global estimate of enhanced geothermal systems potential, Applied Energy, Volume 279, 2020, 115769.
  • Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115769
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Contains rastered potentials and capital costs for enhanced geothermal electricity generation in Europe.

data/eia_hydro_annual_capacity.csv

  • Source: Energy Information Agency (EIA)
  • Link: https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/electricity/electricity-generation
  • License: CC0 (reference)
  • Description: Contains country-level hydro-electric capacity for Europe by year.

data/eia_hydro_annual_generation.csv

  • Source: Energy Information Agency (EIA)
  • Link: https://www.eia.gov/international/data/world/electricity/electricity-generation
  • License: CC0 (reference)
  • Description: Contains country-level hydro-electric generato for Europe by year.

data/heat_load_profile_BDEW.csv

  • Source: oemof/demandlib
  • Link: https://github.com/oemof/demandlib
  • License: unknown
  • Description: Contains standard heat load profiles based on data from BDEW (German Association of Energy and Water Industries).

data/hydro_capacities.csv

Warning

The provenance of the data is unclear. We will improve this in the future.

data/links_p_nom.csv

  • Source: Wikipedia
  • Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HVDC_projects
  • License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
  • Description: Contains list of HVDC transmission line projects.

data/nuclear_p_max_pu.csv

  • Source: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  • Link: https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/ThreeYrsEnergyAvailabilityFactor.aspx
  • License: custom
  • Description: Country-level nuclear power plant availability factors.

data/refineries-noneu.csv

  • Source: manually collected, mostly from Energy Information Agency (EIA)
  • Link: https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/refinerycapacity/table3.pdf
  • License: CC0 (reference)
  • Description: Contains locations and capacities of oil refineries in Europe.

data/unit_commitment.csv

  • Source: DIW, IRENA, Agora Energiewende.
  • License: CC-BY 4.0
  • Description: Contains unit commitment parameters for thermal power plants.

data/biomass_transport_costs_supply_chain{1,2}.csv

  • Source: European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
  • Link: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC98626
  • License: CC-BY 4.0 (reference)
  • Description: Contains transport costs for different types of biomass.

data/cba/a.3_non-co2-emissions.csv

  • Source: ENTSO-E, TYNDP 2024 Methodology: CBA Implementation Guidelines, Annex A.3, p. 108
  • Link: https://tyndp.entsoe.eu/resources/tyndp-2024-methodology-cba-implementation-guidelines-for-consultation-1
  • License: CC-BY 4.0
  • Description: Non-CO2 emission factors (NOx, NH3, SOx, PM2.5, PM10, NMVOC in kg per net GJ) and standard efficiencies in NCV terms per fuel and plant type, extracted manually from the CBA Implementation Guidelines. Used to compute the B4 non-CO2 emissions indicator in units of t/year.

data/cba/cba_project_corrections.csv

  • Source: Source manually compiled by Open-TYNDP maintainers, based on cross-referencing raw TYNDP CBA project export data with individual TYNDP project investment sheets/PDFs.
  • Link: https://tyndp2024.entsoe.eu/projects-map/transmission
  • License: CC-BY 4.0
  • Description: Contains manual corrections to raw TYNDP cost-benefit analysis (CBA) project data, including fixes to malformed or missing border/bus codes (e.g. mapping blank or ambiguous codes to offshore hub buses), splitting single malformed rows into their correct per-investment legs, and correcting transfer capacities (p_nom) between project endpoints. Used to override erroneous entries in the raw CBA project list before building CBA networks.

data/cba/table_B1_CBA_Implementations_Guidelines_TYNDP2024.csv

  • Source: ENTSO-E, TYNDP 2024 Methodology: CBA Implementation Guidelines, Table B.1
  • Link: https://tyndp.entsoe.eu/resources/tyndp-2024-methodology-cba-implementation-guidelines-for-consultation-1
  • License: CC-BY 4.0
  • Description: Overview of the transmission projects included in the reference grids for the 2030 and 2040 time horizons, with border, transfer capacities and commissioning year, extracted manually from the CBA Implementation Guidelines. Used to assign the TOOT/PINT assessment method to each transmission project per planning horizon and patch the CBA reference grid.