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ENERSHARE – REC Operation REST API: A REST API for computing local energy market (LEM) prices for a Renewable Energy
Community (REC) that can promote the minimization of the members’ operation cost with energy.

This software is authored by:
Ricardo Emanuel Gomes Fernandes da Silva

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This program makes use and is distributed with the following libraries:
* fastapi: (https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi)
* pydantic: (https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic)
* uvicorn: (https://github.com/encode/uvicorn)

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