Validator

[davide-f]

Describe the feature you'd like to see

It would be interesting to adopt the validator similar to pypsa-ariadne
See for example:
PyPSA/pypsa-ariadne#269 (comment)

[ekatef]

Given the experience of the model debug and testing for #1172 and #1293, it would be great to add testing of a number major parameters and outputs. In particular, there is the need to check that the invariants (e.g. the overall installed capacity, demand, available renewable potential) are being conserved.

As an additional comment, currently there seem to be some issues with the overall available potential as demonstrated in #1270 which must be investigated further.

[lkstrp]

We are currently working on a new, more stable version of the validator in the PyPSA/ repository. At best we will find a better solution to talk to any HPC, which will make it more scalable across all PyPSA-x repos and forks. But even if not, we could still set it up for Earth. The question is rather how tedious this will be.

Testing of a number of parameters I also wanna bring to it. Basically, that you can define some hard ranges of parameters, and if they are not met, the tests will fail. In addition to the already existing manual comparison. All based on networks in the results directory.

In any case, it would be great to combine development efforts here to reduce the already too high double maintenance and dev efforts of Earth and Eur.