v0.2.2

[grgmiller]

This release primarily fixes a bug that affected the quality of the CO2 emissions data for multiple regions in the Southeastern U.S., namely AEC, SOCO, and TVA. This bug resulted in substantial (>1%) errors in the emission totals and rates for these regions. This bug also affected the CO2 data for a handful of individual plants in MISO, PJM, ERCO, CPLE, SWPP, DUK, and NYIS.

This release includes multiple improvements:

• Fixes a bug that was assigning CO2 data from CEMS to the wrong rows when attempting to fill missing CO2 data (Fix bug with CEMS missing CO2 data filling #280)
• Updates the handling of command-line arguments when running the pipeline (Small improvements to command line arguments #288)
• Whenever net generation in a period is zero, the calculated generated emission rate was previously missing due to dividing by zero. In this release, we now fill apply a zero emission rate to these periods. For all other periods where emissions or generation data is actually missing, the generated emission rate will still be missing (Fill missing generated rates #290)

Validation improvements:

• Raises a warning in allocated net generation or fuel consumption outputted from the EIA-923 generator allocation process is more than 0.1% different than the input data (Update the flag threshold in Check_allocated_gf_matches_input_gf #278)
• Adds logging to the data pipline, instead of using print statements. This also fixes a bug that was preventing logging messages from pudl from showing when running the pipeline. This allows us to save an output of all warnings to help validate the results. (Make PUDL logging show up, and set up logging in OGE #285)
• Expands the coverage of multiple existing validation checks to make them more comprehensive (Expand validation of outputs #287)

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