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Contents

  • Installation Guide
    • Pre-Installation
    • Simple Installation
    • Editable Basic Installation
    • Developer Installation
  • How to Cite HyDesign
  • Updates log
    • hydesign v1.6.0 (August 15, 2025)
      • New features
      • Improvements
    • hydesign v1.5.0 (April 3, 2025)
      • New features
      • Improvements
      • Bug fix
    • hydesign v1.4.1 (September 12, 2024)
      • New features
      • Improvements
      • Bug fix
    • hydesign v1.4.0 (August 31, 2024)
      • New features
      • Improvements
    • hydesign v1.3.4 (April 08, 2024)
      • New features
    • hydesign v1.3.3 (April 06, 2024)
      • New features
    • hydesign v1.3.2 (December 22, 2023)
      • New features
    • hydesign v1.3.1 (December 14, 2023)
      • New features
    • hydesign v1.3.0 (November 16, 2023)
      • Improvements
    • hydesign v1.2.0 (August 18, 2023)
      • Improvements
    • hydesign v1.1.0 (May 5, 2023)
      • New Features and API changes
      • New models and functions

Evaluation Tutorials

  • Quickstart
    • Evaluating the performance of a hybrid power plant using HyDesign
      • Extract data from DTU’s ERA5 database
      • Evaluating the HPP model
      • Understanding the sub-models
      • Plot the HPP operation
      • Plot battery, wind and PV degradation
      • Compare ideal operation (ems) wit h actual long-term opertation with degradation
      • Compare battery degradation results by changing the cost of battery fluctuations factor
  • Advanced HPP Model
    • Evaluating the performance of a hybrid power plant using HyDesign
      • Evaluating the HPP model
  • Evaluating the performance of a hybrid power plant with P2X using HyDesign
    • Evaluating the HPP model
    • Plot the HPP operation
  • PyWake P2X Example
    • Setting up the model
    • Evaluate the design
    • Plotting example output
  • Break-even price and power purchase agreement
    • Break-even price of H2
    • Power Purchase Agreement (PPA)
  • Example: Sizing a plant to meet constant electrical load
    • Evaluation
    • Sizing
  • Export the DOE
  • Offshore HPP
  • How to use iso-probabilistic transformations to obtain weather-corrleated spot markets with a desired distribution
    • 1. Sample a target distrubtion, the number of samples can be different between input data and desired distribution
  • HPP with multiple energy markets
    • Evaluating the performance of a hybrid power plant using HyDesign
      • Evaluating the HPP model
  • Hybridize
    • Evaluating hybridizing of a single technology power plant
    • Existing PV
    • Existing wind
  • Reliability
    • Evaluating the performance of a hybrid power plant including availability time series
      • Reliability time series
      • Transformer failure event example
    • Generating availability time series
  • Evaluating the performance of a hybrid power plant with P2MeOH using HyDesign
    • Evaluating the HPP model
    • Plot economic and technical indicators
    • Plot the HPP operation

Sizing Tutorials

  • HyDesign Sizing Example
    • Sizing wind, solar and batteries for a hybrid power plant
  • HyDesign Sizing P2X Example
    • Sizing wind, solar, batteries and electrolyzers for a hybrid power plant
  • Sizing optimization under uncertainty

HiFi EMS

  • High-fidelity Energy Management System
    • HyDesign API

Publications

  • Tool Publications
    • HyDesign: A Tool For Design and Operation of Renewable Hybrid Renewable Plants.
    • HyDesign: a tool for sizing optimization for grid-connected hybrid power plants including wind, solar photovoltaic, and Li-ion batteries.
    • Benchmarking of current hybrid energy system design tools - an update of work within IEA Task 50 Hybrid Power Plants: Work Package 3
  • Theses
    • The application of airborne wind energy systems in hybrid power plants
    • Robustness of hybrid power plants under long-term weather and market fluctuations
    • Sizing and design optimization of hybrid power plants with Power-to-Hydrogen: techno-economic and environmental assessment
    • Techno-economical evaluation of different energy storage technologies for hybrid power plants
    • Multi-objective optimization for hybrid sizing and objective function development
    • Hybridization of single technology plants to hybrid power plants
    • Sizing of hybrid power plants for hydrogen production
    • Sizing of hybrid power plant for maximizing values from electricity markets
  • Related Publications
    • Optimal sizing of renewable hybrid power plants considering component reliability as a multi-discipline optimization under uncertainty
    • Hybrid Renewable Power Plants for Green Ammonia Production: Optimal Operation and Economic Assessment
    • Optimal Sizing of Hybrid Power Plants Considering Multiple Electricity Market Participation
    • Surrogate-Based Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis of Future European Electricity Spot Market Prices.
    • Enhancing Profits of Hybrid Wind-battery Plants in Spot and Balancing Markets using Data-driven Two-level Optimization.
    • Evaluation of Grid-Connected and Off-Grid Operations of Hybrid Power Plant with P2H Integration.
    • Electrical Collection System Design Optimization for Hybrid Power Plants.
    • Hybridization of Wind Farms Using Hybrid Power Plant Sizing Optimization
    • Profitability of solar-based hybrid power plant in Northern Europe
    • Opportunities of Battery Energy Storage in Stand-Alone and Co-Located Hybrid Power Plant in Distribution Grid.
    • Synergy of Hydrogen Production in Active Distribution Networks.
    • Assessment of Hybrid Power Plant Operation including P2H in Future Energy Markets.
    • Profitability of hybrid power plants in European markets.
    • Optimal Operation of Hybrid Power Plants: A Case Study of an Operation Park in Sweden.
    • Impact of Renewable Power and Market Price Forecasts on the Operational Profitability of Hybrid Power Plants.
    • Profitability of Hybrid Power Plants in Europe.
    • Requirements of Future European Balancing Markets: Insights into Imbalance Volumes and Generation Availability.
    • Optimal Participation of Co-Located Wind–Battery Plants in Sequential Electricity Markets.
    • Component Sizing of an utility scale hybrid power plant.
    • Energy Management of Hybrid Power Plants in Balancing Market.
    • Interfacing Energy Management with Supervisory Control for Hybrid Power Plants.
    • The value of sector coupling for the development of offshore power grids.
    • Operation of Battery Storage in Hybrid Power Plant in Australian Electricity Market.
    • Day-ahead market modelling of large-scale highly-renewable multi-energy systems: analysis of the North Sea region towards 2050.
    • Recommendations for balancing requirements for future North Sea countries towards 2050.
    • Enhanced Features of Wind based Hybrid Power Plants.
    • Modeling the Intra-Hour power system balancing of the Danish Power System for 2020, 2030 & 2050.
    • North Sea region energy system towards 2050: integrated offshore grid and sector coupling drive offshore wind installations.
    • Using time series simulation tool for assessing the effects of variable renewable energy generation on power and energy systems.
    • Balancing Challenges for Future North Sea Offshore Network.
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Theses

This section includes MS theses using HyDesign

2025
  • The application of airborne wind energy systems in hybrid power plants
  • Robustness of hybrid power plants under long-term weather and market fluctuations
  • Sizing and design optimization of hybrid power plants with Power-to-Hydrogen: techno-economic and environmental assessment
2024
  • Techno-economical evaluation of different energy storage technologies for hybrid power plants
  • Multi-objective optimization for hybrid sizing and objective function development
  • Hybridization of single technology plants to hybrid power plants
2023
  • Sizing of hybrid power plants for hydrogen production
  • Sizing of hybrid power plant for maximizing values from electricity markets
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