This document will show you how to run this application.

It is recommended you run this application from a virtual environment.

Prequisites:

• python 2.7
• pip, virtualenv

Install Requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

You probably need to change the permission on "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig".

$ sudo chmod g+wx /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

If you run into the issue "Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement..." run

$ sudo pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt

If you run into an issue where you can't install numpy, install it from the command line:

$ pip install numpy

To run the simulation with default load and solar data enter: $ python main.py run-sim

To generate plots: $ python main.py run-sim --plot

If you want to pass in custom load and solar data: $ python main.py run-sim --load_file somedatafile.csv --solar_file anotherdatafile.csv

Note there are default data files included with the application. I had some trouble parsing the original files so the default files have been reformatted. Note that this simulation probably won't work with data of a different timescale or a different length.

Unit tests are run via nose: $ nosetests