Changes in energyPRO

energyPRO 5.0.278

 

IMPROVEMENTS:
– Ribbon instead of toolbar
– Side menu with overview
– Updated graphical user interface
– online project examples
– online time series.
– Improved report layout
– Updated structure of energy conversion, annual report
– New Pie and bar charts
– Calculation log report
– Improvements in Production, graphic
– Statistic information on time series graph
– Multiple graphs open simultaneously
– Background image on graphical user interface
– Online manual

ERRORS FIXED:
– Error message when customizing sites in REGION
– Heat demand missing first day
– Unit missing for in-built turn off payment
– Time series, wrong unit listed in overview
– MILP calculation does not include dependensies and minimum operation hours
– energyPRO – Danish wording should be changed for heat storage
– Two UnitChange implementation errors
– Name of time series in TS functions is replaced with numbers
– Batteries in REGION, error when battery is not in the first site
– End date must be later than start date error
– Not able to open model
– Advanced Payment Period not working
– Battery related error in Region project
– Activation issues
– Optimize error when optimizing other than the first year
– Movement of time series has error in certain situations
– Battery capacity increases with cycles function
– Index issue, making heat demand incorrect
– Fixed tariffs are not working on EC and EP payments
– Export hydraulic calculation annual has wrong values
– Cash-Flow reports with FINANCE and COMPARE project have errors
– COMPARE, Production, graphic New window shows different year than selected
– energyTRADE – Time series. Resolution of data is reduced to calculation step
– energyTRADE – Power curve – input unit conversion from kW to MW
– energyTRADE/energyWEB API returns empty string
– energyTRADE – start costs not included into block bids
– energyTRADE – operation from start is not obeyed for power trading units
– energyTRADE – start costs added to bid should have opposite effect on electricity consuming units
– energyTRADE, Ramp up powerplans from DC is converted to mistaken production plan
– energyTRADE – Dataprovider for TAX and TARIF gives 0 values after update
– energyTRADE – Regulating market bids not calculated for whole period.
– energyTRADE – Regulating market bids calculated for units that are not available

 

energyPRO 4.9.428

 

IMPROVEMENTS:

• TeamViewer, option of not installing TeamViewer when making a custom installation

 

ERRORS FIXED:

• Reports, peak imported electricity is wrong in energy conversion, monthly and compare reports
• COMPARE, in rare case, when loading both payment group and time series, the payment group appears in external conditions in alternatives
• energyTRADE, missing bids for planned production
• Environment, only one emission can be added, not possible to add more emissions
• Formulas, when have the use the name of time series instead of the symbol, clicking the name gives the symbol
• Time series, Text cut off in Offset option
• Production, graphic, fuels, with use unit in graph and export, multiplies with app. heat value for each time shown
• energyTRADE, Downward regulating bids are unexpectedly negative
• energyTRADE, error when having large number of time series and time series functions
• energyTRADE, operation strategy report gives wrong balancing prices
• energyTRADE, time series made as copies from original time series have the original time series as prognosis
• energyTRADE, with traded units, the export/import limits are not obeyed
• energyTRADE, values in energy conversion tables are not consistent
• energyTRADE, block bids are not always to be offered with full capacity
• energyTRADE, status bar window still showing after calculation is done
• energyTRADE, error when adding values in historic settings in configuration
• energyTRADE, scaling is not working in the energy tables
• Indexes, Indexing of demand fails when demand TS is not “closed”
• INTERFACE, having a COMPARE project, error if writing reference in name of alternative
• Heat pump, changing fuel as output can lead to connections not dissappearing
• Markets, grid restriction fails if measuring unit differs from default
• Duration curve, missing buttons
• Operation strategy graph, wrong heat pump or electric boiler curve, when not operating in the first timestep of the month
• Operation strategy report, boiler payments are all zero
• OPTIMIZE, error when making calculation
• OPTIMIZE, Thermal storage, specific annuity is per m3, shall be per MWh
• OPTIMIZE, transmission, report has error
• energyTRADE, Timeseries, scaling and offsetting is not working on historic values in energyTRADE
• Calculation method. String on button not updated when closing project.
• Fuel producing units working inconsistent

 

energyPRO 4.9.400 

 

IMPROVEMENTS 

• OPTIMIZE: 
  • Transmissions 
  • Hydraulic transmissions 
  • Grid connections 
  • User defined thermal storages 
  • Fuel storages 
  • Heat on built-in heat pump 

• Batteries, formulars on charging/discharging capacities 
• Peak payments included in MILP optimization 
• Time series, option of scaling and offsetting 
• Time series, option of setting color on time series 

 

ERRORS FIXED: 

• MILP, units without access to storage cannot cover transmission loss 
• OPTIMIZE, Thermal storage, calculated specific annuity is per m3, shall be per MWh 
• Electricity market, restrictions on an Electricity Market don’t work when being formula based and in a different measuring unit 
• Transmissions, showing of losses in graph on transmission is a factor 1000 to high 
• Transmissions, hydraulic, wrong calculation of losses when having transmission in both directions 
• Energy conversion monthly report – sometimes the max. fuel consumption misses to check December values 

• Export energy conversion, when the fuel unit is set to be used in graphs and exports, the fuel storage unit is wrong 
• Danish translation, typo errors 
• Opening energyPRO problem 
• Incorrect lines to heat and process heat rejection 
• Demand, in some cases when using index, the demand is not correct in the planning period 
• Heat pump, deleting a time series makes the program freeze 
• COMPARE, Thermal Store, utilization is not synchronized 
• COMPARE, in alternatives it shall not be possible to rename items present in reference or other alternatives 
• COMPARE, no Warning when changing from FINANCE to DESIGN if the reverence has no financing or investment 
• COMPARE, with many alternatives the orientation of the compare reports should be switched to landscape format 
• energyTRADE, recalculation with 24 hour interval gives error 
• energyTRADE, Time series for last time stamp does not save chosen timeseries 

 

 

Changes in energyPRO 4.9.361

 

IMPROVEMENTS:

• Option of Team Viewer assistance for hotline

 

ERRORS FIXED

• OPTIMIZE, After an OPTIMIZE calculation of a FINANCE project, the planning period is not reset to planning period of the FINANCE project.
• Heat pump, error when opening a project including the built-in heat pump
• OPTIMIZE, calculated battery capacity is wrong by a factor 1000 when measuring unit of the project is MW/MWh
• Operation strategy, the spot price is not included in the graph until a calculation has been made
• Economy, German KWK2020 functions are not included in the analytic calculation
• OPTIMIZE, optimal capacity cannot get below starting storage content. The starting content is now set to zero, when making an OPTIMIZE calculation
• Time series function, when using time series function in an energy conversion unit, changed values in the time series function are not transferred to the energy conversion unit
• Calculation, wrong message on fuel balance when having offered fuel
• OPTIMIZE, After an OPTIMIZE calculation, “OPTIMIZE” is now included in the header of the reports
• Fuel demand, when having a fuel demand of a fuel without heating value, you have an error
• COMPARE, not possible to set or change fuel input or output on user defined energy conversion units
• Report, Operation hours are wrong in Energy conversion monthly and summary
• Spot market, change of time series on spot market is not changing the result of calculation
• German MarktWert function, wrong name of 2. parameter
• Reports, Compare environment, total CO2 is incorrect
• Demands, when demand is specified in a measuring unit different from the measuring unit of the project, and showing the demand as graph multiple times, the y-scale is wrong
• Economy input, in some case it is not possible to drag and drop payments
• Loading a time series function with cycles gives an error, shall instead give a red cross
• Heat demand dependent on ambient temperature, changed the unit of the fields.
• Report, energy conversion, annual, energy conversion unit is not appearing in list of heat production
• Wind turbine, in some cases you have a wrong error message
• Timeseries functions, when time series is updated the time series functions referring to the timeseries are not updated
• Hydraulic transmission calculation, missing check on temperatures settings on site
• Demand Following an Index has a wrong offset as graphic
• Activation statistic, error message when closing energyPRO after having viewed the activation statistic
• energyTRADE, text file data provider not able to handle more files per day
• energyTRADE, operation strategy report, wrong number on purchased electricity

 

Changes in energyPRO 4.9.331

 

IMPROVEMENTS:

• New OPTIMIZE module 
• Fuel demand 
• Forced operation of energy conversion units 
• New min., max. and sum time series functions 
• Private wire functions in MILP 

 

ERRORS FIXED: 

• OPERATION, calculation fails when planning period is longer than a year 
• Input data, possible to load wrong type of data 
• Energy Conversion Report. Hours of operation incorrect 
• Battery, capacity field not updated when changing utilization 
• Markets, when using timeseries in payments for fixed tariff market wrong timeseries can be used 
• Report, energy conversion, annual. Missing total electricity consumption if only one consumer 
• REGION, error when loading site from project file 
• Reports, emission reports come out with zero values 
• Activation statistics, in some cases you have a message regarding unknown data fields 
• Heat demand not met message, where it seems like demand is met 
• Thermal solar collector, Doubling solar thermal Output when having multiple fuels 
• COMPARE, changing load on ECU in reference is not reflected in alternatives 
• Reports, energy conversion annual, Region, missing cooling production table in demand site 
• Reports, energy conversion annual, wrong showing of energy conversion units in REGION when having cooling 
• Fixed tariff market, you can have an error when using peakimported formula 
• Built-in energy conversion units, when having fuel as output the capacity limit is not respected 
• Energy conversion units, when setting start of Operation restricted to period default is end of planning period 
• Report, Operation income, error in amount when price is zero 
• Duration curves, in some cases electricity consumption and losses are not included 
• Export energy conversion, process heat demand is labelled heat demand 
• Export economy – error if paymentgroups does not contain payments 
• Copying out TSF returns dataset with index outside planning period 
• MILP. Operation period is not overruled by change load frequency when it should 
• Electrolyzer When having no electric capacity in electrolyzer, error pops up when starting calculation 
• US measuring units, Discrepancy between energyPRO calculation and exported energy conversion 
• Energy conversion unit, It is possible to edit text in table in operation tab 
• energyTRADE, Progress bar missing when fetching data and/or calculating 
• energyTRADE. Bidding table is not updated when selecting date in calendar dropdown. 
• energyTRADE, Cannot choose traded electricity for payments 

 

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