dGen 2.0.0

What's Changed

• Documentation by @T-Man-Stan in #19
• Addresses Psycopg2 issue by @michaelavs in #32
• Targets env updates, Pandas warnings by @michaelavs in #29
• Create workflows for repo by @michaelavs in #51
• Updates for PySAM>3 (from @brtietz) , updated input datasets, resolve SQL lock (from @er-or-er), enable multi-core processing (from @er-or-er), and model release by @michaelavs in #36

New Contributors

• @michaelavs made their first contribution in #32
• @er-or-er made their first contribution in #37
• @brtietz made their first contribution in #36

Full Changelog: 1.0.0...2.0.0

dGen 1.0.0

dGen 1.0.0

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the open source version of the Distributed Generation Market Demand (dGen) model. Version 1.0.0 is the fully public open sourced version after testing the alpha and beta versions privately.

Supported Platforms

• Windows 10: 32 and 64-bit versions
• Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04) 64 bit versions
• Mac OSX 10.15 64 bit versions

Primary Features

• Solar + Storage systems and financial modeling
• New national residential and commercial agent load data (database)
• New national residential and commercial agents (agent files)
• Portable database hosted via a Docker Container
• Updates to data in database
• Updated Bass Diffusion parameters (p & q) calibrated on an NREL developed "ground truth" dataset of national solar system counts
• Data hosted on the Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
• Documentation: formal "read the docs" styled documentation, video tutorial on model setup, and github wiki pages