Welcome to the **2024.2** release note of Artelys Crystal Super Grid! This version includes new features, performance enhancements, and tools to streamline your workflow and provide better insights. Let's explore the highlights!
### β¨ Main New Features
#### π Delta Module: Enhanced Sensitivity Analysis
Introducing the **Delta Module**, designed for extensive sensitivity analysis in energy system modeling. This feature empowers users to run large sets of sensitivities across various scenarios, providing valuable insights through our **new KPIs** tailored for this purpose.
The Delta Module facilitates comprehensive sensitivity analysis based on user-defined parameters. Here are some non-exhaustive examples of what can be achieved:
- **Climatic Variations:** Explore the impact of user-specified extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, cold snaps, or prolonged droughts, on energy demand and supply.
- **Maintenance Strategies:** Evaluate custom maintenance programs and their effects on system performance and reliability over a full year.
- **Economic Factors:** Assess the influence of user-defined fluctuations in commodity prices, energy costs, or inflation rates on bidding zones and market dynamics.
- **Technological Advancements:** Investigate potential impacts of emerging technologies or efficiency improvements within energy systems.
- **Regulatory Changes:** Examine the effects of hypothetical new policies, emissions targets, or incentive programs on long-term planning.
- **Operational Scenarios:** Test various user-created operational strategies, load profiles, or resource allocation plans at an hourly resolution.
These examples illustrate just a fraction of the Delta Module's capabilities, as it can be applied to a wide range of parameters and scenarios in energy system modeling.
> **Flexibility gained:**
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> The Delta Module allows users to define and run multiple sensitivity analyses tailored to their specific needs and scenarios in energy system modeling. It offers powerful data transformation capabilities:
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> - Replace a double, curve, or timeseries with another one
> - Rescale a double or a timeseries by a given factor, multiplying the input data
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> These transformations can be applied to all parameters of all assets in the model, providing unprecedented flexibility in scenario creation and analysis.
By leveraging the Delta Module, users can gain a comprehensive understanding of how their systems might respond to a wide array of potential future conditions, enabling more robust planning and strategy development.
Delta Module can be found in the operations' view. Do not wait to have a look at the specific documentation to parametrize it!
#### π KPIs: New Library, Performance Enhancements, and Temporal Aggregation
##### New KPI Library: Metrics at Your Fingertips
We've launched a **new KPI library** that offers actionable insights into your energy models. Each KPI comes with clear documentation to help you understand and use them effectively. Whether you're monitoring system performance, financial impacts, or environmental metrics, everything is easily accessible.
> **Why you'll appreciate it:**
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> With straightforward guides and a wide range of metrics, informed analysis is now simpler than ever!
##### Performance Enhancements
Experience faster KPI displays! We've revamped the KPI rendering process by transitioning to **database-backed queries**. This change boosts performance and ensures smoother navigation without crashes from high resource use.
> **What this means:**
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> - Quicker KPI display times, regardless of dataset size.
> - A more stable application experience under heavy load.
##### Temporal Aggregation and Granularity
We've introduced a powerful **temporal aggregation and granularity** feature to enhance your time series analysis. This allows users to analyze results at different time scales effortlessly.
> **What's new:**
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> - Easily switch between different time granularities
> - Sort time series data for better visualization
> - Located in the KPI analysis section for quick access
#### π New Hydrogen Asset Models
We're pleased to introduce **two new asset models** that enhance hydrogen modeling:
- **H2 Imports**: Simulates hydrogen imports for better representation of supply chains.
- **H2 Pipeline Equality**: Ensures pipelines have identical sizing between nodes (from A to B and B to A), adding realistic constraints to hydrogen infrastructure.
> **Why this is important:**
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> These models improve your ability to simulate hydrogen infrastructures, enhancing accuracy in your modeling scenarios.
#### πΊοΈ Improved Map Interactions
Map interactions are now more intuitive! With **right-click operations**, you can easily:
- Move assets
- Create new assets
- Delete assets
Plus, we've added **map filters** to help you quickly locate specific technologies or visualize assets involved in particular energy flows.
> **What's new:**
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> Streamlined map operations that save time and clicks, allowing for intuitive design adjustments in your energy systems.
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### π§ Additional Improvements
_Enhanced KPI Functionality_
- **Time Series Sorting**: Improved sorting capabilities for KPI time series.
- **Predefined KPI Views**: Added new predefined KPI views for quick insights.
- **Removed Temporal Filter**: Eliminated temporal filter on time-based KPIs for more comprehensive analysis.
_User Interface Enhancements_
- **Context/Pathway Import Interface**: New interface for importing context and pathway data directly into the appropriate study, reducing the number of clicks required.
- **Operations Menu Reorganization**: Restructured the operations menu for better usability.
- **Parameters Table Editing**: Now supports editing by pressing Enter for quicker modifications.
_Map Improvements_
- **Bug Fixes**: Resolved various issues related to mapping functionality.
_Documentation and Logging_
- **New User-Focused Documentation**: Released documentation focusing on user experience.
- **Improved Logging**: Enhanced log quality and accessibility.
- **Optimization Log Retrieval**: New feature to retrieve optimization logs.
_Technical Improvements_
- **OAuth2 Integration**: Secure access with single sign-on for quicker and safer access to your projects.
- **Expert Optimization Window**: When launching a computation, an expert mode is now available to help users configure the optimization with specific parameters. This includes memory allocation settings to prevent "no space left" errors on HPC during optimization.
- **Deployment Info**: Added information on deployment to aid debugging and support.
- **Coherence Checks**: Removed some redundant coherence checks for improved performance.
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### β Known Issues
- The **Set context type** functionality is currently experiencing issues with transferring results from the first run (in Optim Capa or Pathway Optim context type) to the second run (in Simulation or Pathway Simulation). We are actively working on a solution.
We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve these issues. For the latest updates on known issues, please check our support portal or contact our customer support team.
- **Gas & Hydrogen Storage Fix:** Resolved an issue affecting variable storage withdrawal capacity for gas and hydrogen storage models.
- **Export Contract Models Fix:** Fixed a bug that caused errors when launching computations in export contract models.
- **Parameters Table Fixes:**
- Strengthened *table robustness* to prevent disappearing issues when heavily manipulated.
- *Biomass Boiler:* The missing Pmax parameter has been added.
- **Import Context During Optimization:** Now allows the import of other contexts inside the study even when some optimizations are running.
- **Optimization Stability Fix:** Improved handling of large datasets to prevent issues when sending data to the calculation pod at the start of optimization.
- **User Role Persistence:** Reloading the software no longer erases user role assignments.
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### β Known Issues
- The **Set context type** functionality still has issues transferring results from the first run (Optim Capa or Pathway Optim) to the second run (Simulation or Pathway Simulation). We are actively working on a fix.
We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the software. For the latest updates, visit our support portal or contact customer support.