v0.7

Hycon v0.7 makes improvements to battery controls, as well as various packaging updates to improve testing, update URLs, and formalize formatting rules.

Enhancements

• Feature/preallocate_measurements by @paulf81 in #83
• Use test fixtures and conftest.py by @misi9170 in #82
• Enable BatteryPriceSOCController to handle multiple battery durations [+bugfix for high/low SOC] by @paulf81 in #85
• set high soc default to 1 by @paulf81 in #86

Package updates

• Feature/ruff format by @paulf81 in #84
• Add dependabot dependency manager by @paulf81 in #88
• Update URLs by @misi9170 in #89

Full Changelog: v0.6...v0.7

v0.6

v0.6 brings a couple of significant updates: compatibility with Hercules v2 and a name change for this software repository from WHOC to Hycon.

What's Changed

• Update python requirements by @misi9170 in #77
• Updates for Hercules v2 by @misi9170 in #70
• Update examples to use Hercules v2 by @misi9170 in #79
• Update package name by @misi9170 in #80
• v0.6 by @misi9170 in #81

Full Changelog: v0.5.1...v0.6

v0.5.1

WHOC patch release to update top-level documents.

What's Changed

• Update README with WETO note and SWR by @misi9170 in #71
• Update license file

Full Changelog: v0.5...v0.5.1

v0.5

WHOC v0.5 adds enhanced tools for wake steering via offline optimized look-up tables #43 and adds capabilities for controlling a standalone hydrogen production plant (controls generation and electrolysis processes) #52 . Examples are included to demonstrate new capabilities. An additional example is also added to demonstrate flexible interconnect capabilities.

New features

• Controller for off-grid hydrogen production plant by @genevievestarke in #52
• Develop wake steering lookup table toolset by @misi9170 in #43
• Add example for single wind distributed wind turbine at flexible point of interconnect by @misi9170 in #64

Enhancements

• Remove unneeded information from example input files by @misi9170 in #57
• Provide more flexibility for having various control loops by @misi9170 in #58
• Merge temporary development branch into develop by @misi9170 in #61

Full Changelog: v0.4...v0.5

v0.4

Latest release of WHOC. Includes a new degradation-aware controller for batteries, as well as adding infrastructure for (yet to be included) preview-enabled controllers.

Enhancements

• Add degradation-aware battery controller by @misi9170 in #49
• Add infrastructure to Hercules interfaces for handling forecast information (v2) by @misi9170 in #50

Packaging updates

• Up numpy requirement to numpy~=2.0 by @misi9170 in #48

Full Changelog: v0.3...v0.4

v0.3

WHOC v0.3 brings some streamlining of the package by updating the license; moving to a pyproject.toml rather than setup.py; and cleaning up development code that is no longer needed. Also included are some updates to the SimpleHybridControllerBaseline to add smoothing and enable control of subsets of wind/solar/battery storage.

Packaging changes

• All meta data in pyproject.toml by @paulf81 in #41
• Update to BSD-3-Clause license and clean up repository by @misi9170 in #45
• Clean up examples directory by @misi9170 in #42

Enhancements

• Adding some smoothing to hybrid controller by @genevievestarke in #40
• Consolidate hybrid plant controllers by @misi9170 in #46

Full Changelog: v0.2...v0.3

v0.2

Minor version release for version 0 of the wind hybrid open controller (WHOC)

New features

• Wake steering controller by @misi9170 in #26
• Wind farm power setpoint tracking controller by @misi9170 in #29
• Add baseline supervisory hybrid plant controller by @misi9170 and @genevievestarke in #36

Improvements

• Test/hercules wind battery controller by @ZackTully in #28

Bug fixes/functional updates

• Fixing documentation build by @genevievestarke in #30
• [BUGFIX] Remove dependencies on FLASC temporarily by @misi9170 in #31
• Feature/reenable flasc by @misi9170 in #35
• Updating WHOC/HERCULES communication to fix logging issue. by @ZackTully in #33

New Contributors

• @genevievestarke made their first contribution in #30

Full Changelog: v0.1...v0.2

v0.1

What's Changed

• Moving project overview readme onto main. by @misi9170 in #2
• Underpinning architecture and minimal use cases by @misi9170 in #10
• Fix buggy instantiation after ControllerBase update. by @misi9170 in #12
• Feature/herc battery controller by @ZackTully in #13
• Add ruff linting, formatting and pre-commit hooks by @paulf81 in #15
• Update all files to satisfy ruff formatting requirements by @misi9170 in #16
• Update installation instructions for developers by @misi9170 in #21
• Adding generic copyright statement to running code by @misi9170 in #22
• Rename amr-standin in examples by @misi9170 in #23
• Establish tests and clarify naming by @misi9170 in #24
• WHOC v0.1 by @misi9170 in #25

New Contributors

• @ZackTully made their first contribution in #13
• @paulf81 made their first contribution in #15

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NREL/wind-hybrid-open-controller/commits/v0.1