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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.
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.
- Evaluation of Hybrid FPOG Applications in Regulated and Deregulated Markets Using HERON
- HERON as a Tool for LWR Market Interaction in a Deregulated Market
- Evaluation of Hydrogen Production Feasibility for a Light Water Reactor in the Midwest
- Economic Assessment of Nuclear Hybrid Energy Systems: Nuclear-Renewable-Water Integration in Arizona
- Economic analysis of a nuclear hybrid energy system in a stochastic environment including wind turbines in an electricity grid
- Correlated synthetic time series generation for energy system simulations using Fourier and ARMA signal processing
- Synthetic wind speed scenarios generation for probabilistic analysis of hybrid energy systems
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.
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.
HERON has a user group email list. This email list can be used for:
- Developers announcing releases or notifications
- Users asking questions about installation or usage
- etc
The email address is [email protected].
To subscribe, you can:
- Email [email protected], or
- Navigate to https://groups.google.com/d/forum/inl-heron-users.
Examples of integration tests for HERON can be found at HERON/tests/integration_tests.