PyECOM: Python Energy Communities, is a tool designed to facilitate the research into Energy Communities (EC) through the ability to create, sim- ulate and test various EC settings. Implementations of base aspects of EC functioning are implemented and provide a flexible basis for the integration of new components. Optimization algorithms from libraries such as Pymoo can be accessed and are facilitated through the use of a decoder that can fur- ther be extended. In future versions, PyECOM will also feature Reinforcement Learning as a method available to the users.
The required packages can be installed using the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txtAn example usage of PyECOM can be found in the notebook pyecom_benchmark_example.ipynb.
Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.