[NEMO-devel] Polygons in NEMO and optimization displayed results

[Ben Elliston]

Hi Yusak

> My question is about the polygons. Is it like a compulsory to define
> polygons, because I saw in your first two publications, you didn't
> mention about the polygons at all, or in other words, can we run
> NEMO without having the predefined polygons?

Earlier work used a concept of regions only, for siting generators and
demands.  This was extended to a finer spatial resolution of polygons
(as in the AEMO 100% RE study).  There must be at least one polygon
and each polygon must belong to a region.  For your initial work, you
can use the polygon number `polygons.wildcard' which makes everything
happy.  In the long run, though, you will probably want to modify
polygons.py and regions.py to localise them to your area.

> About the displayed results, is it the last generations (in this
> case after 5th generations) to be displayed in NEMO? Can we also
> displayed other generations result?

Good question.  Your output provides a good example.  The fitness
column shows the fittest individual in that generation.  The
"hallfame" shows the fittest individual ever seen.  Note that in
generation 4 below, that the fittest individual (129.992) is higher
than the all-time best.  We do not take the fittest individual in the
final generation, but the fittest individual overall.

		fitness hallfame
		----   -----
        nevals  min     min
0       19      123.6   123.6
1       19      127.99  123.6
2       19      122.026 122.026
3       19      115.008 115.008
4       19      129.992 115.008
				
You can use the --trace-file option (see documentation) to write out a
CSV file containing every candidate tried (in the example above, that
would be 5 x 19) and their fitness.

Cheers, Ben