Changes in energyPRO

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