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HERON

HERON (Holistic Energy Resource Optimization Network) is a software framework to construct workflows solving complex resource allocation problems to meet target economic goals.

It leverages probabilistic analysis tool RAVEN to run constructed workflows. HERON is a plugin for RAVEN.

Publications

The following are a selection of technical reports, conference proceedings, and journal articles that may be of interest to users and developers of HERON, loosely in order of work performed.

Technoeconomic Assessments

Synthetic History Generation

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Installation

HERON is a RAVEN plugin, and so requires installing RAVEN.

Instructions for installing RAVEN plugins (including HERON) after RAVEN is installed can be found on RAVEN's Plugins page.

HERON also requires the RAVEN plugin TEAL, which can be installed using the RAVEN plugin installation instructions above.

Documentation

The HERON documentation can be compiled from TeX by navigating to HERON/doc and:

  • Windows: run make_docs.bat
  • OSX/Unix: run make_docs.sh.

The resulting user manual will be in the pdfs folder under HERON/doc. The resulting SQA documentation will be in the sqa_built_documents folder under HERON/doc/sqa.

Stay Up to Date

HERON uses the Discussions tab on the HERON github repository to post news and other messages.

We previously had an emailing list that has since been discontinued.

Workshop Materials

See workshop documentation at HERON/doc/workshop. See workshop tests at HERON/tests/workshop.

For Developers

To run and access code coverage, see documentation for code coverage.

Other Examples

Examples of integration tests for HERON can be found at HERON/tests/integration_tests.

Citing HERON

HERON is included in the U.S. Department of Energy CODE database, which includes citation guidelines for several citation styles. DOI:10.11578/dc.20200929.2