Changes in energyPRO 4.9.189
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
Changes in energyPRO 4.9.180
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
Changes in energyPRO 4.9.133
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
Changes in energyPRO 4.8.526
ERRORS FIXED
- Activation, unknown data fields message
- Battery is not appearing on operation strategy and is not connected to an electricity market
- COMPARE, after adding an alternative and saving, it still says modified
- COMPARE, changing from DESIGN to FINANCE, investment and financing is missing in alternatives where Project identification is desynchronized
- COMPARE, changing selected strategy of ECU and closing gives invalid pointer operation
- COMPARE, Electric Vehicle. Invalid pointer operation when saving after changing settings
- Demands, access violation error when adding electricity demand
- Electricity demand, as graphic has in some cases wrong measuring unit
- Hydraulic calculation: Error in WorkOfPumps function when Price per Unit is a time series
- MILP and more markets, electricity producing units can only cover electricity demand connected to the first of the markets
- MILP, occasional error in HiGHS solver
- Storage, wrong warning on storage content when having minimum storage content and Full storage at start of calculation
- Storages, wrong desired content at end sent to the solver
- Time series function, incomplete or wrong functions in conversion table or cyclic periods causes endless loop of time series update
- Translation, fuel, wrong text in German
- When starting in Demo, unnecessary message appears
Changes in energyPRO 4.8.510
IMPROVEMENTS
- MILP, you are now able to specify which MILP solver to use for given project
- License and activation check, warning when approaching stop date
- energyTRADE, historic values of different energy types including fuels and demands
- energyTRADE, generic SQL data provider
- energyTRADE, improvements in setup of automatic recalculation and bid sending
ERRORS FIXED
- German translation issues
- FINANCE, demands as timeseries is missing move timeseries on week/date and development over the years
- Operation strategy, incompatible conversion types when changing to FINANCE
- Energy conversion unit. Link to payment on unit is wrong
- Solar thermal Collector: Ktheta is not displayed correctly
- External Conditions. Time series. Error when adding new line while date field is selected
- INTERFACE, Weekly fixed profile is not correct on Sundays
- FINANCE, warning message re investments not included issues
- Reports, error in the presentation of transmitted energy in the monthly Energy Conversion report
- Graphic user interface, missing input and output process power on energy conversion unit
- Operation strategy, error when changing from Analytic to MILP
- Transmission, error in calculation of transmission losses when having transmission in both directions
- Time series overview, wrong axis title in graph when displaying multiple time series in one coordinate system
- German function KWK Exported function not included in operation strategy
- energyTRADE, automatic Regulating bids are sent for the wrong period
- Copying time series in planning period has an error
- Missing Input process power on ECU
- Heat storage, missing power measuring unit in heat losses
- Unnecessary recalculation when selecting draft comparison of key financial figures
- Activation, message with Serial number is appearing
- Energy conversion unit, power curve issue when set to zero
- Graphic user interface, deleting process heat storage update connection problem
- Energy conversion unit, PV, Temperature unit different from default measuring unit is not saved
- Demands as time series function, decimal separator replaced by tab
- Demand as timer series function, restricted period connection problem
- energyTRADE, missing bids on HP and Electric boiler
- Energy conversion annual report, error in full load hours
- PAP Function not working correctly in part load
- Transmission, Process Heat store not used
- Energy conversion units, cannot handle 0 values for fuels in power curves
- Time series overview, graphic, wrong title on y-axis
- INTERFACE, csv files with separate date and columns are not inserted correct
- German function, KWK Exported function not included in operation strategy
- Fuel storage, wrong factor on capacity
Changes in energyPRO 4.8.461
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
Changes in 4.8.139
- Energy conversion units with user defined power curves have wrong priorities in Analytic calculation mode
- Cold storage, text overlay
- Heat pump, too many connections in graphic user interface
Changes in 4.8.135
- COMPARE, colors of units are wrong when synchronizing with reference
- COMPARE, in variations, it is possible to change planning period
- COMPARE, settings in alternatives shall be greyed out
- Deleting fuel causes error on all energy conversion units
- Demands, time series function in demand cannot be reversed
- Economy, fuel consumption payment does not work without heat value
- Emission, CO2 on fuels without heat value does not appear in reports
- Energy conversion unit, fuel unit is not correct initial
- Energy conversion unit, Heat pump gives wrong results when electric capacity is specified in kW
- External conditions. Time series functions. Location in one TSF is copied to every TSF in the project
- Fuels on energy conversion unit, deleting gives red cross
- Fuels, issues when shifting between monthly values and time series functions
- Graphical user interface, problem with process heat
- Help, about, link to DESIGN is not working
- INTERACE, csv output is without separator if not set in spreadsheet
- INTERFACE, occasionally the calculations stop
- Loading time series out of database, the symbol is having a _copy attached
- Miscellaneous translation issues
- Options, online data, Server address, wrong URL
- Payments, copying payment group gives identical ID warning
- Payments, selecting fuel consumption is not saved
- PEF/CO2 calculation in a COMPARE project fails in some cases
- Region, graphic user interface, process heat from other site is not shown correct
- Reports, energy conversion annual report, fuel by energy unit is missing
- Reports, error when having more fuels than energy conversion units
- Reports, in some cases error on energy conversion reports related to utilization factor calculation
- Reports, recalculation when shifting reports or entering storages
- Reports, saving as CSV, decimal separator issues
- Time series and time series function, changes in symbol are not updated for fuel in energy conversion units’ power curve
- Time series overview, changes are not saved
- energyTRADE, Error in fuel consumption graph
- energyTRADE, min operation period is not passing midnight for non traded units
- energyTRADE, offered and calculated bids on electric boiler mixed up
- energyTRADE, one timestep too much in the calculation
- energyTRADE, Opposite sign on consumption units in planned production with DC communication
- energyTRADE, with User defined regulating bid, downward not allowed below minimum is not working
- energyTRADE, wrong regulating bids in some plants
- energyTRADE. Negative heat production from boilers, when are non available
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT energyPRO 4.7 LICENSES WON’T WORK WITH THIS UPDATE
Changes in energyPRO 4.8.114
IMPROVEMENTS
- Licence registration by serial number
- More fuels on energy conversion units
- Possibility to work with or without heat values and CO2 factors on fuels
- Process heat storage
- Setting storage capacity directly
- Setting storage content at start and end of calculation
- Demand as time series function
- IsHoliday, a true/false function option of including public holidays
- German private wire payments and coverage tables on more markets
- energyTRADE, improved block bidding
- energyTRADE, hour and block bids with user defined prices
- energyTRADE, regulating bids with user set bidding prices
- energyTRADE, option of selecting planned production
- energyTRADE, more natural gas prices on data provider
- energyTRADE, boiler replacement flag
- energyTRADE, days on production, graphic
ERRORS FIXED
- Solar collector, copy as image not correct
- Reports, monthly energy conversion, missing site information on storage losses
- Cold store, losses not calculated
- Online data time series contains illegal characters in name.
- Environment, changing formula in PEF wizard is not saved
- Environment, CO2 calculation fails when measuring units are kW/kWh
- Environment, wrong formula if choosing PEF calculation carnot method and having an ECU
- Environment, emission group below emission method group causes error
- MILP, heat consuming unit is not operating when having transmission with zero capacity
- Compare, energy conversion reports – electricity markets problem
- Electricity market, error in CO2 formula is not caught
- Production, graphic, wrong unit on fuel graph
- Fuel storage is loaded from nothing to meet demand
- Not possible to add CO2 and PEF intensity calculation without REGION module
- Empty storage creates losses
- Grid restriction not obeyed when in kW
- Time series as graphic is wrong
- Time series function as graphic is wrong
- Operation strategy report, missing amount and price per unit when price per unit is a time series
- Recursive Problem after in time series function after pasting values in conversion table
- Peak Elec Demand in Monthly energy conversion report incorrect
- Graphical show of time series in the 2 day planning period is not correct
- Reports, copying energy conversion annual as data, text and values of battery are displaced one column
- Unnecessary restriction for operation dependent on other unit in MILP
- If project identification is changed in alternative then Calculation method can not be changed in alternative
- German functions, KWKG 2017 and KWKG2020 are wrong when having two markets and the second import electricity
- External conditions. Time series. Copied time series get already used symbol name
- Storage, missing losses in graphics
- Report Operations strategy calculation – Error when having fixed tariffs
- Indexes, using underscore in symbol causes error
- Time series or time series function, when used in Market it is not shown on right-click menu
- Markets, when changing a time series or time series function symbol, the symbol is not changed on Markets
- Closing the operation strategy without changing anything is requiring new simulation
- Reports, text overlap in imported electricity payment lines
- Economy, imported fuel payment has value when no fuel is imported
- Reports, energy conversion annual, Total CO2 emissions fails when having more fuels
- Danish translation, misspellings and Mængde instead of Beløb
- Reports, catalogue of technical assumptions, wrong text in heat pump
- Demands, in some cases heat demands can’t be edited
- E-cars, missing the option of setting Operation restricted to period.
- Demands, fixed weekly profile of demand fails in the beginning of calculation
- Saved object file is changed when being loaded into energyPRO
- Loaded energy conversion unit replace existing unit in payments in rare situations
- Payment, exported electricity and CO2 for all markets fails
- energyTRADE, block bids are missing
- energyTRADE, wrong price dependent bids in Ringkøbing
- energyTRADE, daily planned production not possible – wrong warning
- energyTRADE, wrong representation of Process Heat
- energyTRADE, difference in bidding price and displacement price
- energyTRADE, difference between start and end storage content
- energyTRADE, wrong bidding price when starting cost included
- energyTRADE, wrong prices in regulating bids
- energyTRADE, no bidding prices calculated in Assens
- energyTRADE, price dependent hour purchasing bid is increased to next level, but should be decreased to level below
- Mismatch between bid and production on heat pump
- energyTRADE, block bids are coming through to the PBA
- energyTRADE, incorrect error message when project not found
- energyTRADE, production not matching the bids
- energyTRADE, planned production not followed
- energyTRADE, offered bids not updated after sending the bids
- energyTRADE, CHPs are not producing when calculating in MILP
- energyTRADE, mismatch between operation strategy calculation report and priority numbers in production graphic
- energyTRADE, operation strategy calculation has wrong results
- energyTRADE, missing bids for electric boiler in the graph – Ringkøbing
- energyTRADE, status of only heat producing unit at the beginning of calculation incorrect
- energyTRADE, no warning when demand not met
- energyTRADE, In operation from start is not working
- energyTRADE, Offered bid is running regardless of expected to loose
- energyTRADE, error when switching days in the table with bids
- energyTRADE, measuring unit is wrong in calculated day-ahead bid table
- energyTRADE, error when Solar Photovoltaic used in the model
- energyTRADE, using Calcstart in start and end storage content gives error on the historic storage content
- energyTRADE, mismatch between production and bids
- energyTRADE, table is not updated to next day
- energyTRADE, Minimum capacity on heat storage causes regulating bids to fail
- energyTRADE, Opposite sign on elec consuming units for user defined regulating bids
- energyTRADE, Calculation errors in available capacity in user defined regulating bids
For information about changes in previous versions please contact energyPRO@emd.dk