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