Swiss electricity system modeling -- HV grid - hydropower topology and inflows - renewable productions - past and forecast meteorological data

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This dataset contains several useful components for Swiss Electricity system modeling: 1. High-voltage Swiss grid: 2019 snapshot of the high-voltage (>150kV) grid composed of : - Nodes: names, voltage, position. - Lines: ends nodes, resistance, power capacity. - Transformers: ends nodes, power capacity, resistance, tap ratio.

  1. Hydropower topology : Representative description of Swiss reservoirs and plants (2019) composed of:
  2. Plants: Lower reservoir, Upper reservoir, pump/turbine, debit, power capacity.
  3. Reservoirs: Volume, altitude, position, canton.

  4. Inflows into all the reservoirs: hourly time series post-processed from PREVAH model outputs from 2009 to 2019.

  5. Wind production per node: COSMO-1 data processed and scaled to match SFOE annual production.

  6. Solar irradiance maps projected onto tilted surfaces: hourly time series for 35° and 65° tilts, azimuth 180°. (same method as Frischholz, Y. (2025))

  7. Processed ERA5 (historical), ECMWF SEAS5 (seasonal forecast) and ECMWF TIGGE (short-term forecast):

  8. ERA5 Land: For inflow forecast model: historical runoff, snow depth, temperature and total precipitation per catchment (hourly, 2009-2019). For residual demand forecast model: historical temperature, u-v wind, ssrd per country (CH, AT, DE, FR, IT, hourly 2015-2019)
  9. ECMWF SEAS5: For inflow forecast model: same variables as ERA5 (yearly forecast starting from every 1st day of every month in 2019). For residual demand forecast model: same variables as ERA5 (yearly forecast starting from every 1st day of every month in 2019).
  10. ECMWF TIGGE: For inflow forecast model: same variables as ERA5 (two weeks forecast starting from every 1st day of every week in 2019). For residual demand forecast model: same variables as ERA5 (two weeks forecast starting from every 1st day of every week in 2019).

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Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.699
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=97e11e0b-8146-422d-8b04-33c9337eaba6
Provenance
Creator Albin, Cintas,; Jérôme, Dujardin, 0000-0001-5404-7734; Michael, Lehning, 0000-0002-8442-0875; Yael, Frischholz, 0009-0001-2643-9260
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference SWEET-EDGE,; SPEED2ZERO,
Rights cc-by; Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0)
OpenAccess true
Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 1.0
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (5.956W, 45.818S, 10.492E, 47.808N); Switzerland
Temporal Point 2025-09-23T00:00:00Z