Changes in energyPRO

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