PASE - Implement storing weather data as cache file
Summary Weather data should be stored locally once the user has downloaded, for two reasons :
- it will make following computations with the same inputs faster (i.e. running the simulation does not require accessing the PV-GIS API, which is the biggest overhead in the current simulations)
- it will make it possible to run PASE when offline (useful while in transit, etc.)
The aim is to store these cache files in a format easily readable (with pandas.DataFrame.to_csv()
? so that we can directly use pd.read_csv()
during following simulations), in folder INPUTS/WEATHER_FILES/CACHE
.
TO DO
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Check the feasibility of storing weather files (@simone.lucisun)
Edited by Bouvry Arnaud