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Add visual features to graph plotting #14

Closed ekatef closed 3 months ago

ekatef commented 4 months ago

Aims to partially address #1. Probably, may be helpful for #13.

The idea is to use some colour coding to look into major electric properties of the network: 1) transmission capacity s_nom for lines; 2) installed generation or load for nodes.

ekatef commented 4 months ago

The approach gives meaningful results for simple networks, e.g. that is a plot for Rwanda, Burundi, Congo Democratic Republic ["RW", "BI", "CD"] if the generators highlighted (red shades for p_nom, gray for zero generation):

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However, if the network structure gets slightly more complicated, the picture resembles more a strange attractor than a respectful graph: image.

That is a graph for Nordic pool (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland), but I suspect a plot would look pretty much same for any European country.

jessLryan commented 3 months ago

nice! Thanks @ekatef