POSTED: Potsdam open-source techno-economic database

POSTED stands for Potsdam Open-Source Techno-Economic Database. It is pronounced the same way as the English word posted /ˈpəʊs.tɪd/.

POSTED is a public database of techno-economic data on energy and climate-mitigation technologies and a framework for consistent handling of this database.

For more help, please consult the documentation.

Installation

You can install POSTED via pip directly from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/PhilippVerpoort/posted.git

Or clone and install locally:

git clone https://github.com/PhilippVerpoort/posted.git
cd posted
pip install .

Note: The package will be published on PyPI in the near future for simpler installation.

Credits and Thanks

• The software creation and data curation have been primarily conducted at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), a German research institute conducting integrated research for global sustainability.
• This work has been completed as part of the Ariadne project with funding from the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (grant nos. 03SFK5A, 03SFK5A0-2).
• The software code has been written by P.C. Verpoort, with support by L. Heidweiler and P. Effing.
• The data has been curated primarily by P.C. Verpoort, with many valuable contributions by other colleagues from PIK (see CITATION.cff for a full list).

How to cite

• To cite a release (recommended), please refer to a specific version archived on Zenodo.
• To cite a specific commit, please refer to the citation information in CITATION.cff and include the commit hash.
• In addition to citing this database, you may also want to cite the original sources. Bibliographic information for individual sources can be found under Sources or in the BibTeX file sources.bib.

Licenses

The software code located in posted/ in this repository is licensed under an MIT Licence.

The data located in posted/database/ in this repository is licensed under a CC-BY-4.0.