Examples Learn flixopt through practical examples organized by topic. Each notebook includes a real-world user story and progressively builds your understanding.
Basics Notebook Description 01-Quickstart Minimal working example - heat a workshop with a gas boiler 02-Heat System District heating with thermal storage and time-varying prices
Investment Notebook Description 03-Sizing Size a solar heating system - let the optimizer decide equipment sizes 04-Constraints Industrial boiler with startup costs, minimum uptime, and load constraints
Advanced Notebook Description 05-Multi-Carrier Hospital with CHP producing both electricity and heat 10-Transmission Connect sites with pipelines or cables, including losses and bidirectional flow
Non-Linear Modeling Scaling Notebook Description 07-Scenarios Multi-year planning with uncertain demand scenarios 08a-Aggregation Speed up large problems with resampling and two-stage optimization 08b-Rolling Horizon Decompose large problems into sequential time segments
Results Notebook Description 09-Plotting Access optimization results and create visualizations
Key Concepts Concept Introduced In FlowSystem, Bus, FlowQuickstart Storage, time-varying pricesHeat System InvestParameters, optimal sizingSizing StatusParameters, startup costsConstraints Multi-carrier, CHP Multi-Carrier Transmission, losses, bidirectionalTransmission Time-varying conversion_factors Time-Varying Parameters PiecewiseConversion, part-load efficiencyPiecewise Conversion PiecewiseEffects, economies of scalePiecewise Effects Periods, scenarios, weights Scenarios transform.resample(), fix_sizes()Aggregation optimize.rolling_horizon()Rolling Horizon statistics, topology, plottingPlotting