Open Climate Fix (OCF) is a non-profit company, focused on Building AI tools for a greener grid. Every path to net zero has the electricity grid at its heart. At Open Climate Fix, we're delivering cutting-edge technology for industry to accelerate the energy transition.

How to get involved?

At OCF we are passionate that all the knowledge we produce remains open, to break down intellectual property barriers and subsequently reduce the “time to impact”. We therefore encourage external users to use our base code.

Here how you can get involved:

• Submit pull requests.
• Have a look at our List of "good first issues": GitHub "issues" which describe changes we'd like to make to the code. Our coding style is here
• Check out which Github repository are easy to contribute to.
• Sign up to our newsletter and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to learn the latest about our work
• Use our datasets on Hugging Face or EUMETSAT satellite data and let us know if it was useful.
• Use our ML models on Huggin Face and let us know if it was useful.
• Spread the word with your networks
• Use our code(!) by following the guidelines below.

What if you use our code?

Click here to see more

In order for us to understand the use of our models, and to demonstrate impact to future funders, it is invaluable for us to know who is using the code and if possible, how. We licence the code in this repository under a permissive MIT licence and if you are using the code or deriving from it, we request that you attribute the use of Open Climate Fix’s work in your product by adding the text below:

'original code by Open Climate Fix'

If you're a contributor, we'd love for you to share your work! We ask our community to refer to themselves as an Open Climate Fix Community Contributor, specifically across social media channels and on personal CVs or portfolios.

How easy is it to get involved

We've set up this traffic light legend, so you can see how easy it is to get involved in each of our repositories.

Level	Details
	These projects are easy to run, standalone, and have easily readable code. There should be issues for everyone at different skill levels.
	These projects are accessible to contributors but might depend on your skill level. They might depend on another bit of code or need you to investigate a little bit.
	We would not recommend going into these projects. They haven't been made "nice" and it might take a lot of digging in the code to understand what's going on.

You will usually see one of the corresponding badges on the repo's README.

Overview of OCF's repositories

Click on the sections below to see the repo's.

Open Source Tools

Repo	Description	Main Developer	Easy to contribute ?
Open-Source-Quartz-Solar-Forecast	Open Source Solar Site Level Forecast	Zak Watts	🟢
NWP consumer	Microservice for consuming NWP data.	Sol Cotton	🟢
Elexonpy	Python wrapper for UK Elexon data	Peter Dudfield	🟢

Machine Learning

Main repositories for our ML experiments

Repo	Description	Main Developer	Easy to contribute?
ocf-data-sampler	Library for creating samples suitable for ML from weather and power datasets	James Fulton	🟢
PVnet	PV net main repo	James Fulton	🔴
PVNet-summation	This project is used for training a model to sum the GSP predictions of PVNet into a national estimate	James Fulton	🔴
pv-site-prediction	ML experiments and models for SBRI project	Zak Watts	🔴
UK PV National XG	National GSP PV forecasting using Gradient Boosted Methods.	Peter Dudfield	🔴

PyTorch implementations of ML models from the literature

Repo	Description	Main Developer	Easy to contribute ?
Graph Weather	PyTorch implementation of Ryan Keisler's 2022 "Forecasting Global Weather with Graph Neural Networks" paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07575)	Jacob Bieker	🟢
MetNet	PyTorch Implementation of Google Research's MetNet (Sønderby et al. 2020), inspired from Thomas Capelle's metnet_pytorch.	Jacob Bieker	🟢
Skillful Nowcasting	Implementation of DeepMind's Skillful Nowcasting GAN (Ravuri et al. 2021) in PyTorch Lightning.	Jacob Bieker	🟠
Perceiver Pytorch	Implementation of DeepMind's Perceiver (Jaegle et al. 2021) and Perceiver IO (Jaegle et al. 2021) in Pytorch. Forked from lucidrains/perceiver-pytorch	Jack Kelly	🔴

Operational Solar Forecasting

General

Repo	Description	Main Developer	Easy to contribute ?
pv-site-datamodel	Datamodel for PV sites	Peter Dudfield	🟢
ocf-infrastructure	Infrastructure code for OCF's cloud environments	Sol Cotton	🟠
Satip	Satip contains the code necessary for retrieving, transforming and storing EUMETSAT data	Sol Cotton	🟠
analysis-dashboard	This is a Streamlit app for the OCF team that reports database statistics	Peter Dudfield	🔴
Nowcasting Alerts Cron	Nowcasting Alerts cron Worker	Brad Fulford	🔴

UK

Repo	Description	Main Developer	Easy to contribute ?
nowcasting_datamodel	Datamodel for the nowcasting project	Peter Dudfield	🟢
GSPConsumer	Collect GSP solar generation data from PVLive	Peter Dudfield	🟠
PVConsumer	Consumer PV data from various sources	Peter Dudfield	🟠
PVoutput	Python code for downloading PV data from PVOutput.org	Jack Kelly	🟠
pv-site-api	Site specific API for SBRI project	Peter Dudfield	🟠
quartz-frontend	Front End repo for the Nowcasting project.	Brad Fulford	🟠
uk-pv-national-gsp-api	API for hosting nowcasting solar predictions	Peter Dudfield	🟠
pvnet_app	Application for running PVNet in production	Sukhil Patel	🔴
pv-site-production	Production service for PV site level forecasts	Peter Dudfield	🔴
uk-pv-forecast-blend	Service to blend forecast together	Peter Dudfield	🔴

India

Repo	Description	Main Developer	Easy to contribute ?
india-api	API India solar and wind data	Sol Cotton	🟢
india-forecast-app	Runs wind and PV forecasts for India and saves to database	Peter Dudfield	🔴

Other repos

Repo	Description	Main Developer	Easy to contribute ?
GFS Downloader	NCEP GFS 0.25 Degree Global Forecast Grids Historical Archive: https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds084.1/	Zak Watts	🟢
OCF Blocs2	Blosc2 codec used for OCF's Zarr compression	Peter Dudfield	🟢
Solar and Storage	Solar and Storage optimization code	Peter Dudfield	🟢
.github	Various Community Health Files	Peter Dudfield	🔴

For a complete list of all of OCF's repositories tagged with "nowcasting", see this link