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energyPRO Changelog

What's new in energyPRO 4.9.330

Nov 9, 2023
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • New OPTIMIZE module
  • Fuel demand
  • Forced operation of energy conversion units
  • New min., max. and sum time series functions
  • Private wire functions in MILP
  • ERRORS FIXED:
  • OPERATION, calculation fails when planning period is longer than a year
  • Input data, possible to load wrong type of data
  • Energy Conversion Report. Hours of operation incorrect
  • Battery, capacity field not updated when changing utilization
  • Markets, when using timeseries in payments for fixed tariff market wrong timeseries can be used
  • Report, energy conversion, annual. Missing total electricity consumption if only one consumer
  • REGION, error when loading site from project file
  • Reports, emission reports come out with zero values
  • Activation statistics, in some cases you have a message regarding unknown data fields
  • Heat demand not met message, where it seems like demand is met
  • Thermal solar collector, Doubling solar thermal Output when having multiple fuels
  • COMPARE, changing load on ECU in reference is not reflected in alternatives
  • Reports, energy conversion annual, Region, missing cooling production table in demand site
  • Reports, energy conversion annual, wrong showing of energy conversion units in REGION when having cooling
  • Fixed tariff market, you can have an error when using peakimported formula
  • Built-in energy conversion units, when having fuel as output the capacity limit is not respected
  • Energy conversion units, when setting start of Operation restricted to period default is end of planning period
  • Report, Operation income, error in amount when price is zero
  • Duration curves, in some cases electricity consumption and losses are not included
  • Export energy conversion, process heat demand is labelled heat demand
  • Export economy – error if paymentgroups does not contain payments
  • Copying out TSF returns dataset with index outside planning period
  • MILP. Operation period is not overruled by change load frequency when it should
  • Electrolyzer When having no electric capacity in electrolyzer, error pops up when starting calculation
  • US measuring units, Discrepancy between energyPRO calculation and exported energy conversion
  • Energy conversion unit, It is possible to edit text in table in operation tab
  • energyTRADE, Progress bar missing when fetching data and/or calculating
  • energyTRADE. Bidding table is not updated when selecting date in calendar dropdown.
  • energyTRADE, Cannot choose traded electricity for payments

New in energyPRO 4.9.189 (Aug 1, 2023)

  • ERRORS FIXED:
  • Activation, error when trying to make an activation
  • Export energy conversion, in some cases, when having a user defined measuring units template, demands have wrong values when exporting energy conversion
  • Loading energy conversion units from our database, they are connected to all the fuels in the project
  • Time series function, in some cases, it is not possible to add new time series functions

New in energyPRO 4.9.180 (Jul 7, 2023)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Time series, handling of time series has been made faster
  • Tools, results of hydraulic transmissions can be exported
  • ERRORS FIXED:
  • MILP, market payments are not included when first payment has zero amount or price per unit
  • INTERFACE, problem with reading txt file
  • Energy conversion, graphic. In some cases, when changing order of energy conversion units, energyPRO recalculates
  • Progress window missing header and button in COMPARE
  • Compare key financial figures, payback and internal rate of return graphs fail
  • Key financial figures, QI returns in some situations wrong result
  • Financing, table is not updated when opening
  • Cash flow graphic, wrong values in the first two months
  • Changing the colour of ECUs makes energyPRO recalculate
  • Reports, wrong measuring unit for fuel storage in exported energy conversion
  • Electrolyser, graphical user interface setting is reset when editing
  • Entering energy conversion unit changes the model to modified
  • Analytic calculation, Call back error when having parallel calculation
  • energyTRADE, Change load no more frequently than causes error
  • In rare occasions, loading a time series made a payment group in the list of time series
  • When loading an energy conversion unit, you are asked to select a fuel, but nothing happens
  • When saving previous version of energyTRADE model it is renamed to .~epp instead of .~etp
  • Graphical userinterface, when allowing transmission, we are missing line from other site to rejection unit
  • Graphical userinterface, the cooling connection from other site to cooling rejection is red instead of blue.
  • The window “There is a new energyPRO update available” refers to 4.5 in Danish version
  • Fixed tariff markets, show as graphic shows wrong results when entered first time

New in energyPRO 4.9.133 (May 3, 2023)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Load change restrictions
  • Payments handled at timestep level
  • New Electrolyzer model
  • Option of different outputs on PV, Heat pump and Solar collector
  • Speeding up operation strategy calculation
  • ERRORS FIXED:
  • Battery Storage Content – wrong unit conversion
  • COMPARE, heat pump is not synchronized across alternatives
  • Complex conversion tables, changing order of columns is not saved
  • Creating a new model and next opening an existing model causes the new model to be deleted
  • Annual key figures. FP(_) function not returning a value when fuels have no heat value
  • Energy conversion monthly and overview report, missing line with zero fuel consumption
  • Energy conversion unit has NAP for whole planning periods, but still it has starts
  • Energy conversion unit Wind turbine, no warning when windspeed time series is missing
  • Energy conversion unit, when deleting fuel, wind farm has an error
  • External conditions, Time series function with functions set by cycle periods is not saved
  • Graphics, when right clicking any graph but the top one and select edit, the top graph is appearing
  • Heat pump window is very slow on opening and closing
  • Input data, Missing the checkbox below connection restricted to a period in a transmission
  • Investment form, the font size is too small
  • MILP, electricity demand is not added to LP file, when not having electricity markets
  • MILP, Error in modelling starting up
  • MILP, Precision is not set when using CPLEX solver
  • MILP, start and stop time is failing when having operation or non operation period equal to or less than calculation step
  • MILP, User defined units cannot fulfill electric demands on other electricity markets
  • MILP, wrong feeding into LP file when in power curves the value in line below is higher than the value in line above
  • MILP, wrong feeding into LP file when on an energy conversion unit moving a fuel from input to output
  • Miscellaneous, in some cases progress bar is missing
  • Names, underscore is not allowed in start, but is replaced by underscore
  • Operation strategy to MILP, Market payments, All markets is not handled correct
  • Payments, Error in WorkOfPumps when Price per Unit is a time series
  • Projects saved in 4.7 fails in 4.8 when the user had INTERFACE in 4.7 but not in 4.8
  • PV, more year calculation, losses fail when referring to a time series function
  • REGION model, error when moving demand to other site
  • Report, energy conversion, annual gives in some cases an error with incompatible conversion types
  • Reports, Compare cashflow report, revenues and operation expenditures are not correct in some cases
  • Reports, energy conversion graphic not showing correct graphs when using regions
  • Reports, Energy conversion, annual and monthly, Operation hours are above number of hours in the year
  • Reports, Error on cooling load duration curves for options other than demand only where the cooling comes from another site
  • Reports, in some cases process heat rejection unit causes Production, graphic to crash
  • Reports, Incorrect cooling load duration curve
  • Reports, Production, carpets crashes in some cases when fuel production
  • Reports, production, graphic, E-cars have wrong measuring units
  • Reports, Technical assumptions, errors on user defined units producing fuel
  • Time series function, conversion table and cycle periods are not synchronized in COMPARE
  • Time series function, cycle periods, when deleting any line the last one is deleted
  • Time series function, cycle periods, when right-click and delete on the Time series function form, the time series function is deleted
  • Translation issue when importing a payment
  • energyTRADE, after being in configuration, an extra time column appears in energy table
  • energyTRADE, export energy conversion, wrong formatting
  • energyTRADE, exported electricity payment gives wrong results
  • energyTRADE, illegal type error message plus HeatBidPowerCurve error
  • energyTRADE, Missing translation to Danish
  • energyTRADE, no trading, missing production and consumption in energy type table
  • Capacity limits for regulating bids not respected
  • Data provider, update of energy taxes inserts a line with zero
  • Operation strategy calculation does not include traded electricity payments
  • Planned production not shown in graphics and realizable production equal to zero
  • Traded electricity payments. Wrong values in lp file
  • When having non availability periods you have in some cases negative heat production

New in energyPRO 4.8.461 (Oct 6, 2022)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Hydraulic calculation of district heating
  • Option of using new MILP solver, HiGHS
  • Time series function, option of 2-dimensional conversion table
  • Time series function, option of defining cycle periods, similar to fixed tariff market
  • Electricity demands can be connected to different markets
  • energyTRADE, new specific energyTRADE file format
  • energyTRADE, access to the single sites on production, graphic
  • ERRORS FIXED:
  • Calculation, error when going from 1 year calculation to more years calculation
  • COMPARE, in some cases, Energy conversion report causes unnecessary recalculation
  • COMPARE, in some cases, loading CHP gives fuel error
  • COMPARE, issue with Non availability periods in some cases
  • COMPARE, when adding thermal storage to reference it shows as desynchronised in alternative
  • Deleting or setting non availability periods on Energy conversion units makes energyPRO close without warning
  • Economy, fixed payments effect the operation strategy
  • Energy conversion unit, problem with loading Non Availability Periods
  • Energy conversion units, clearing time setting of non availability period causes error
  • Energy conversion units, negative values in power curves shall not be allowed
  • Energy conversion units, PAPFUEL expression returns zero
  • energyTRADE, energy conversion file is not in same timestep as calculation
  • energyTRADE, error operation income when using user defined day-ahead bid
  • energyTRADE, Hvide Sande model is not running in 4.8
  • energyTRADE, in table the currency of the project shall be shown
  • energyTRADE, in table the measuring unit shall be shown
  • energyTRADE, option of selecting planned production as time series function
  • energyTRADE, with calculation step of 15 min the hourly average in table is wrong
  • energyTRADE: wrong results with planned production and ramping activated
  • Error in function gives problem opening project file
  • Error warning, missing error warning when deleting time series
  • Export energy conversion, Fuel production is not appearing when using fuel unit and the resolution is month or year
  • FINANCE, when having yearly optimization, the calculations are not in parallel
  • Fuel storage, unit of graph not always correct
  • Full load hours not calculated with fuel input/output
  • Heat rejection, in some cases a 4.7 project with heat rejection cannot be opened in energyPRO 4.8
  • Hydraulic calculation: Heat loss not calculated correctly
  • INTERFACE, text reports have a data separator too much at end of each line
  • MILP, wrong result when having energy conversion unit having both input and output of same energy type
  • Misspelling in privacy warning and terms of use acceptance
  • Operation strategy window, change of month and covering own demand issue
  • Payments, FPCap causes different operation
  • Payments, FCCAP and FPCAP return zero
  • payments, FPCAP effects the MILP calculation
  • Payments, in some cases the fuel amount is not correct
  • Payments, Index function fails
  • Payments, PeakExportedElectricity makes calculation error.
  • REGION, loading a site causes an error
  • Reports, Cash flow, graphic, Cash Account is one month off
  • Reports, Compare cash flow, wrong text, shall be Cash Surplus instead of Cash Account
  • Reports, Compare key financial figures, graphs become too small on some computers
  • Reports, COP Heating instead of COP Cooling
  • Reports, full load hours not calculated correct in some cases
  • Reports, having more than one fuel, the copy data to spreadsheet is resetting fuel numbers
  • Reports, in some cases text is going below frame
  • Reports, issue with full load hours in heat pumps
  • Reports, QI payments are returning zero
  • Reports, utilization factor 0% if fuel output specified as TSF or TS
  • Reports, utilization factor is wrong when having process heat production
  • Reports, utilization factor of 0% for units only consuming an energy type
  • Reports, wrong total efficiency if one of the outputs is a fuel
  • Solar, array shading is wrong when solar PV or collector has zero inclination
  • Solar, in case of inclination of zero, array shading is wrong when it comes to beam radiation
  • Switching from process heat demands to heat demands causes run error
  • Time series function, changes in symbol is not updated in complex formulas
  • Time series, in some cases it is not possible to delete from right click menu
  • User defined storage, as graphic, temperature shall not be shown
  • User defined storage, loss settings are lost