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@ARTICLE{Gotzens:859310,
author = {Gotzens, Fabian and Heinrichs, Heidi and Hörsch, Jonas and
Hofmann, Fabian},
title = {{P}erforming energy modelling exercises in a transparent
way - the issue of data quality in power plant databases},
journal = {Energy strategy reviews},
volume = {23},
issn = {2211-467X},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-00182},
pages = {1 - 12},
year = {2019},
abstract = {In energy modelling, open data and open source code can
help enhance traceability and reproducibility of model
exercises which contribute to facilitate controversial
debates and improve policy advice. While the availability of
open power plant databases increased in recent years, they
often differ considerably from each other and their data
quality has not been systematically compared to proprietary
sources yet. Here, we introduce the python-based
‘powerplantmatching’ (PPM), an open source toolset for
cleaning, standardizing and combining multiple power plant
databases. We apply it once only with open databases and
once with an additional proprietary database in order to
discuss and elaborate the issue of data quality, by
analysing capacities, countries, fuel types, geographic
coordinates and commissioning years for conventional power
plants. We find that a derived dataset purely based on open
data is not yet on a par with one in which a proprietary
database has been added to the matching, even though the
statistical values for capacity matched to a large degree
with both datasets. When commissioning years are needed for
modelling purposes in the final dataset, the proprietary
database helps crucially to increase the quality of the
derived dataset.},
cin = {IEK-STE},
ddc = {624},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-STE-20101013},
pnm = {153 - Assessment of Energy Systems – Addressing Issues of
Energy Efficiency and Energy Security (POF3-153)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-153},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000458217800001},
doi = {10.1016/j.esr.2018.11.004},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/859310},
}