v1.1

Hercules v1.1 adds various new features and improvements, as described below.

New features

• Add alternative standin for AMR-wind that runs FLORIS by @misi9170 in #63
• Enable passing power setpoints to wind simulators by @misi9170 in #76
• Feature/battery cell model by @ZackTully in #91
• Feature/floris electrolyzer example by @genevievestarke in #77
• Enable heterogeneous inflow in FlorisStandin by @misi9170 in #112

Improvements and bug fixes

• Update README.md by @genevievestarke in #65
• [BUG] Hotfix: track floris v4 change in input file "turbulence_intensities" by @misi9170 in #66
• simple_battery unit tests by @ZackTully in #64
• Fix sync issue by @genevievestarke in #74
• [BUGFIX] Update FlorisStandin to use set() run() paradigm introduced in FLORIS v4 by @misi9170 in #83
• Updating installation documentation by @genevievestarke in #81
• [BUGFIX] Reenable AMR-Wind by setting up empty power_setpoints by @misi9170 in #85
• Feature/update example 6 by @paulf81 in #84
• Adding PV module unit tests and documentation by @brookeslawski in #79
• Refactor example 7 by @paulf81 in #87
• Smooth output of FlorisStandin to prevent oscilations in closed-loop response by @misi9170 in #90
• [BUGFIX] Create outputs folder in examples to avoid error when output file does not exist by @misi9170 in #93
• Add external controls for solar PySAM module by @misi9170 in #107
• [BUGFIX] Force yaw_angles to zero in FlorisStandin when power_setpoints passed by @misi9170 in #109
• Improving indexing of solar weather file based on dt in input .yaml file by @brookeslawski in #111
• Change FLORIS to a "regular" requirement by @misi9170 in #103
• Adding solar controller and replacing AMR-Wind standin with FLORIS standin in example 07 by @brookeslawski in #104
• Added AMR-Wind+OpenFAST example (including batch script) by @jfrederik-nrel in #89
• updated installation docs by @achenry in #106
• Fix solar pysam bug for when an external signal is defined by @genevievestarke in #115
• Bugfix/floris standin by @brookeslawski in #101

New Contributors

• @jfrederik-nrel made their first contribution in #89
• @achenry made their first contribution in #106

Full Changelog: v1.0...v1.1