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Breakthrough-Energy / PowerSimData

Simulation framework
https://breakthrough-energy.github.io/docs/
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Allow demand flexibility to be enabled without flexibility profiles #705

Open lanesmith opened 1 year ago

lanesmith commented 1 year ago

Describe the workflow you want to enable

We want to make sure that the current demand-flexibility interface in PowerSimData can behave similarly to the workflow that is implemented in REISE.jl. Namely, we want to make sure that a user can specify that they want demand flexibility enabled, but that they don't necessarily need to provide their own flexibility profiles. Following the implementation in REISE.jl, failure to include external flexibility profiles would result in the DOE flexibility profiles being used.

Describe your proposed implementation, if applicable

We need to check the current implementation in PowerSimData. If a user can enable demand flexibility (and thereby create a demand_flexibility_parameters.csv file) without specifying flexibility profiles, then there shouldn't need to be anything else included. However, if they are required to provide flexibility profiles for demand flexibility to be enabled, then this needs to be updated.

lanesmith commented 1 year ago

See discussion in #623 for a potential pathway for implementing the desired functionality.