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
Changes in energyPRO 4.7.282
IMPROVEMENTS
- New Report “Environment monthly”
- CO2 and PEF intensity calculation
- CO2 emissions available on fuels and electricity markets
- CO2 emissions available in the economy
- New KWK German functions added
ERRORS FIXED
- Report, Wrong figures for process heat in Energy Conversion report
- Energy conversion unit, solar collector is not producing
- REGION, Error message after merging two files
- Operation strategy, when having AccImportedFuel in payment it does not affect the operation strategy
- Operation strategy, the priority numbers are not updated
- Operation strategy, process heat consumption is not included in the operation strategy
- Missing values in Energy conversion, summary
- MILP, error with simple example
- MILP, electricity market, the Max Import Capacity is not obeyed
- MILP, changing from Analytic with a user defined operation strategy to MILP might in some cases causes missing electricity production
- MILP calculation, cooling storage is charged without cooling production
- INTERFACE, delimiter when reading file fails
- Input, in certain case, it is not possible to move payments
- Input data, red cross is not removed when error is fixed
- Fuel storage is empty at start of month when calculating in parallel
- Error in MILP payments when constant term is used in the payment
- energyTRADE, realized heat rejection shall be shown
- energyTRADE, fuel graph shall include fuel consumed by traded unit
- energyTRADE, delivered heat is wrong when being a timeseries function
- energyTRADE, updating productions graphics drawing issue
- Report, Energy conversion monthly, summary and compare, missing process heat consumption
- Report, Energy conversion report, Utilization factor of electrolysis is wrong
- Report, Compare cash flow, Revenue Payment group loaded into Operation expenditures causes error in report
- Report, Catalogue of economic assumptions, depreciation and payments schemes are missing
- Battery, adding a market, the battery is not default connected to the market
- Analytic calculation, restricted fuel is not complied
- Switching order of units is not possible in some projects
- Battery Cycle Counter incorrectly calculated
- Problems when toggling between MILP and analytic calculation visible tab sheet issue
- Calculation, Cold store losses not calculated
- Calculation, Heat Pump error when min capacity selected and kW for electricity and MW for heat
- Balancing error in the reports with PrivateWire + Battery
- Production, graphic. Size of tabs selection graphs improved
- Calculation, Wrong calculation of solar collector when using Kelvin as Temperature drop
- When deleting a time series /timeseries function with dependencies energyPRO might crash
- Input, changing unit names is not changed in financial key figures
- Changing parameters in the wind energy component is not forcing start of a new simulation when clicking on a report
- Translation issues
- Reports, minor layout corrections
- Input, electricity market. Error if field in market restrictions is empty
- Operation strategy, numerous Formula OK messages when leaving form in some projects
- energyTRADE, delivered heat is wrong when being a timeseries function
- Exception happens in time series overview form on some projects
- External conditions. Index. Future values of a time series are not indexed correct, when timeseries is extended in project identification
- energyTRADE. Time series function. Incorrect values shown when conversion table used
- Reports, Wrong peak productions shown when electric stores
- Input, heat pump. Input data shown as time series incorrect shown in some cases
- energyTRADE. Ultimo storage content not as desired
- Input graphical layout. Update problem when changing electricity market
- COMPARE. Not possible to edit economy key figures in alternatives
- Input Operation strategy. Slider in operation strategy is not changing the graphic
- Input, renaming data folders. Illegal characters allowed when renaming
- Report, production graphic. Possible wrong Y-axis in transmission graph
- Report, Energy conversion. Collating error concerning process heat in Energy Conversion reports
- Report, Duration curves. Showing productions as duration curve might cause error
- COMPARE. Trying to synchronize with reference when data not found in reference cause unhandled error
- Input, Index. Index graphic is not shown anymore
- Miscellaneous. Error when simulating in MILP (projects with max allowed priority when calculated with the analytic method)
- Input data. Show carpet diagram is not working in markets
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT energyPRO 4.6 LICENSES WON’T WORK WITH THIS UPDATE
Changes in energyPRO 4.7.89
ERRORS FIXED
- MILP, doubled transmission losses
- Heat pump, wrong measuring unit on graph
- ECU. Fuel production of restricted fuels not possible without access to storage.
- MILP, changing from Analytic with a user defined operation strategy to MILP might in some cases causes missing electricity production
- External conditions. Time series function TSMean. Error when using symbol instead of name is not handled correct
- Electricity Market not editable on the Operational tab of an ECU
- Fixed tariffs market: Deleting a line is giving an error
- Operation strategy. Priorities in operation strategy window not equal to priorities in the report Operation strategy calculation
- INTERFACE, COMPARE, all alternatives are calculated even though only reports for the reference is specified
- Changing measuring unit on energy conversion unit does not give recalculation
- Error when changing between MILP and Analytic when in a Compare alternative
- New solar collectors / PV are not automatically set to high priority
- Heat pump diagram is not automatically updated
- Settings overlapping in user interface
- Error in using prognosis in MILP
- Report compare cashflow translation issue -revenues/operation expenditures
- Payments not included in objective function in MILP
- energy conversion, monthly report, error in peak imported electricity values
- MILP simulation error when having cooling demand
- Energy conversion Units, Fx and test buttons visible when no formulas selected
- MILP, Process heat demand not met in Region
- MILP, energy conversion unit with three power curves has wrong result
- MILP, Market restriction is violated
- MILP, combination of storage and heat rejection fails
- Error on edit payments in large project
- MILP, having more markets, import payments the different markets are added together, when making the MILP calculation
- MILP, missing option of selected priority in operation strategy
- MILP, operation strategy, user defined operation strategy shall not be shown
- Energy conversion unit, Operational, access to fuel storage is missing
- COMPARE, in alternative, leaving operation strategy by pressing OK makes all units out of sync
- Financial Key figures, HP and FC functions returns zero
- Limited fuel restriction and storage is not respected
- EC and EP payments on battery is not included in operation strategy
- Errors on acc. and peak payments
- Report error when market part appears on the top
- Reports, energy conversion annual, full load hours of wind farm is a factor 1000 too high
- Error in Catalogue of technical assumptions
- energy conversion reports, cycle counter is not working
- Reports, have an error when trying to view a text report in a saved and calculated project
- Translation issues
Changes in energyPRO 4.7.66
IMPROVEMENTS
- Mixed Integer Linear Programming solver
- Ability to set maximum electricity export and import values (solver mode)
- Batteries can be assigned to different electricity markets (solver mode)
- Utilization, COP and Total efficiency factors in the energy conversion reports
- Option of using formulas in different fields in solar PV and solar collector
- Reorganizing and resizing energy conversion unit forms
- Indexes, adding options of copy and paste
ERRORS FIXED
- Project Identification. Measuring units. Changes settings registered but not applied
- Online data, Heliosat / SARAH solardata in windPRO and energyPRO should be named the same
- Heat pump, error in COP and capacity when using different measuring units
- Heat pump, conversion from previous version fails when capacity is in kW
- Wind farm. Production is a factor 1000 less than its capacity
- Solar Collector, having inclination of 0 degree and array shading gives extreme values
- Solar collector, operation dependent on another unit is not saved
- Electric stores, Not correctly connected to Electricity market issue
- Demand, Right click on demands in tree structure allows to add process heat demand when process heat is not enabled
- Demand, warning of negative values, without having negative values
- Operation strategy, Changes to the strategy are saved when pressing cancel.
- Sites, Graphic user interface, heat rejection units have wrong measuring unit
- Environment, View and cancel environment emissions generates a calculation/recalculation
- INTERFACE, energyPRO starts minimized after INTERFACE calculation
- INTERFACE, in text reports with *, it shall be possible to process the value and it shall be possible to use any decimal separator
- INTERFACE, Year tag in XML files is not working when generating reports
- INTERFACE, Cashflow annual report is not available
- INTERFACE, error logging several corrections
- REGION Adding a unit/demand/Storage by the tree structure in REGION might be placing it in a wrong site
- Selection of alternatives not registered
- COMPARE, occasional error when closing energyPRO
- COMPARE, project identification, not possible to change settings in alternatives
- When changing operation strategy settings for one unit, others are also out of sync.
- COMPARE, Synchronization error when Loading data objects with same ID as one of the existing data objects
- Economy, German payment function “MarktWert” fails under certain conditions
- Economy, German payment function, “KWK2017_Einspeisung” fails when having annual optimization
- Economy, German payment functions, PrivateWire_EP_Exported and PrivateWire_EP_CoveringOwnDemand are incorrectly calculated
- Reports, Export energy conversion, when selecting years as resolution, the first year is copied to the other years
- Reports, Key financial figures, Present value and IRR are not relevant in a DESIGN or OPERATION calculation
- Reports, Catalogue of technical and economic assumptions report fails at some cases.
- Calculation engine, Minimum non operation period is not respected when having start and shutting down time
- Calculation engine, Missing production, when having accfullloadhours payments and no Transfer storage content between months
For information about changes in previous versions please contact energyPRO@emd.dk