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This library provides a framework for assessing wind plant performance using operational assessment (OA) methodologies that consume time series data from wind plants. The goal of the project is to provide an open source implementation of common data structures, analysis methods, and utility functions relevant to wind plant OA.
https://openoa.readthedocs.io/
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Feature enhancement - new "project" examples for Kelmarsh and Penmanshiel #188

Closed charlie9578 closed 1 year ago

charlie9578 commented 2 years ago

I'd like to make it easy for people to use the data we've recently released from Kelmarsh and Penmanshiel wind farms in OpenOA.

I've created a Project_Kelmarsh similar to Project_ENGIE, and managed to run everything, but I'm thinking it would be better to use the save/load functions and have projects available on Zenodo in the OpenOA format ready for loading. Then make this a fairly generic load, so that as more open data sets become available they can be downloaded and easily read into OpenOA.

I'll have a play and then share my proposal for review.

Thanks, Charlie

ejsimley commented 2 years ago

This sounds great Charlie. It would be nice to have another wind farm or two to demonstrate OpenOA methods with. We're working on the OpenOA v3 API for creating a PlantData object (V3 develop branch), which is a lot more generic and flexible than the current method of creating a new project class for each wind farm. So, using the new V3 PlantData constructor with the Kelmarsh and Penmanshiel wind farms could be a good opportunity.

It would also be great to get your feedback on the V3 API we're working on. Would you be interested in meeting to discuss the changes in OpenOA V3 as well as adding the new wind farms as examples? Sometime in June would be good for us.

charlie9578 commented 2 years ago

Hi Eric, yeah that sounds good. I'll check out the V3 develop branch and see about using it with the two wind farms. I'm on holiday the first week of June, but would be free on 7th June onwards. Sounds like a positive development though :) Thanks, Charlie

charlie9578 commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I've had a go at adding Kelmarsh and Penmanshiel to OpenOA and I think I've got things working smoothly now. Its accessible here. Some features:

  1. Automatically downloads and unzips the data from Zenodo
  2. Automatically downloads monthly ERA5 data for the sites from CDS (registration required)
  3. Simple switching between assets in the 02_plant_aep_analysis_cubico notebook
  4. It uses the V3 API
  5. It runs! (...at least on my PC... and yes... I'm claiming that as a feature!)

@ejsimley would you be able to review and suggest what the next step(s) should be to get this integrated into OpenOA?

Thanks, Charlie

ejsimley commented 2 years ago

Hi @charlie9578 thanks so much for adding the two wind plants as examples in OpenOA V3! After a quick read through, it looks nice. I'll run the example this week and discuss with the rest of the team, and get back to you with any comments or ideas.

charlie9578 commented 2 years ago

Hi,

I've just updated it so that MERRA2 monthly data can also be automatically downloaded (registration also required). I'm thinking perhaps these download tools should live somewhere else though, rather than directly in the project_Cubico script, as they are likely to be useful for others.

Thanks, Charlie

ejsimley commented 1 year ago

pull request #222 merged