This is the hydro time series used in the article The role of hydro power, storage and transmission in the decarbonization of the Chinese power system https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.02.009 Their calculations are detailed in this article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2019.05.024 -------------------------------------------- dams_large.csv lists the names, coordinates, provinces, historical yearly inflows, historical water consumption rate and historical yearly electricity generation of the reservoir stations. reservoir_effective_capacity.pickle contains the effective capacity for the reservoirs. daily_hydro_inflow_per_dam_1979_2016_m3.pickle and daily_hydro_inflow_per_dam_1979_2016_GWh.pickle contains the daily hydro inflow time series in terms of water (m3) and potential energy (GWh), respectively. import pandas data_pickle = pandas.read_pickle('*.pickle') data_csv = pandas.read_csv('dams_large.csv')