Contents

• Value columns - cols

• Index columns - idxcols

Value columns - cols

value (number) [edit] 🖉:

This column is primarily to support long-form IAMC time-series.

capacity_factor (number) [edit] 🖉:

constraints:

minimum	0
maximum	1

description (string) [edit] 🖉:

A human readable description, typically corresponding to an index column

name (string) [edit] 🖉:

flow_in (number) [edit] 🖉:

constraints:

minimum

0

storage_capacity (number) [edit] 🖉:

The energy or power storage capacity of a technology, e.g. of a battery or a hydro dam.

constraints:

minimum

0

nameplate_capacity (number) [edit] 🖉:

The nameplate capacity of a technology, for example, the power generation capacity of a power plant in MW.

constraints:

minimum

0

Common aliases:

energy_cap

Calliope

flow_out (number) [edit] 🖉:

constraints:

minimum

0

Index columns - idxcols

scenario (string) [edit] 🖉:

The scenario under which this data was generated. This index column is primarily to IAMC time-series.

constraints:

enum

…

model (string) [edit] 🖉:

The model that generated this data. This index column is primarily to support IAMC time-series.

constraints:

enum

…

year (year) [edit] 🖉: Data year

This index column is primarily to support long-form IAMC time-series.

carrier (string) [edit] 🖉:

An energy carrier or commodity that can be produced, consumed, stored, and transported. This could be “electricity”, “heat”, or something more tangible such as “woody_biomass”, or more abstract such as “person_kilometers” when modelling transportation.

constraints:

enum

…

timestep (datetime) [edit] 🖉:

unit (string) [edit] 🖉:

This column is used to fill in the “unit” column when converting a data package to the IAMC format.

constraints:

enum

…

technology (string) [edit] 🖉:

Descriptor or name of the technology.

constraints:

enum

…

Common aliases:

tech

Calliope

variable (string) [edit] 🖉: An IAMC variable

Denote the semi-hierarchical variable that the data represents. It is in the format Category|Subcategory|Specification; for more, see: https://pyam-iamc.readthedocs.io/en/stable/data.html

constraints:

pattern

^[0-9a-zA-Z_ |-]+$

region (string) [edit] 🖉:

The region the data corresponds to. This index column is needed when converting a data package to the IAMC format.

constraints:

enum

…

Common aliases:

node	Calliope 0.7 and above
loc	Calliope 0.6 and lower