Software for working with the Marktstammdatenregister (MaStR)
Open Data become a more and more important topic in the domain of energy system modeling. The Python package open-MaStR enables the easy download and cleansing of the database “Marktstammdatenregister”, which offers detailed information on every power and gas unit located in Germany.
The Marktstammdatenregister (MaStR) is a German register provided by the German Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur, short: BNetzA) that keeps track of all power and gas units located in Germany.
The MaStR open data set can be browsed online on the website of the BNetzA, taken from daily provided dumps or be accessed via the web service. The Python package open-MaStR focuses on the second and the third option. It provides a Python interface for accessing data via the bulk download and the web service API and methods to clean the data. The cleaned data is then written to a database. The open-MaStR package thus offers simplified access to the MaStR for energy system research and industry.
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