Data and code for "Weather-year choice outweighs algorithm choice in sizing standalone hybrid renewable energy systems"

Input data, generated results and code for the revised paper "Weather-year choice outweighs algorithm choice in sizing standalone hybrid renewable energy systems" (Results in Engineering, manuscript RINENG-D-26-21837). Version 2 accompanies the revision and replaces version 1: demand shapes are laid on Indian Standard Time, every three-variable reference design carries a branch-and-bound certificate, and the scenario, population and five-variable re-search studies of the revision are included. Contents of hres_v2_deposit.zip:raw/ : the 228 cached hourly PVGIS-ERA5 series (PVGIS 5.3, horizontal array, 14 per cent system loss) for 12 Indian sites and the years 2005 to 2023, with their request metadata.raw_tilt/ : the 228 series for a south-facing array at the PVGIS optimum inclination of each site, with the tilt angles.results/ : reference designs and run records of the main benchmark (684 site-year blocks), the budget-curve, convergence and five-variable studies.results_rev/ : branch-and-bound certificates (cert), scenario benchmarks (bench), population study (population), five-variable re-search (extcheck) and the multi-year reliability matrices of every robust-sizing scenario (robust).main_runs_ist.csv.gz : the run-level record of the 164,160 main-benchmark runs.tables/, tables_rev/, figures/, figures_rev/, export_extra/ : derived tables, figures and extra exports.hres_bench.py and the other Python scripts : simulation, dispatch, economics, the seven metaheuristics and random search, reference construction, certification and analysis; the three synthetic demand shapes are defined in hres_bench.py.manifest.json : every parameter and library version. README_IST.md and REPRODUCE.md : how to rerun the study. run_*.log : run logs. paper_scripts.zip : the scripts that produce every number, table and figure of the revised paper from the stored outputs, with the numbers ledger. Seeds are derived deterministically from the block name, the algorithm name and a fixed base seed, so any run can be reproduced from its identifiers. All weather values are reanalysis, not site measurements, and all demand profiles are synthetic.