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Update to latest PRIMAP-hist dataset (version 2.3) #184

Closed jrissman closed 2 years ago

jrissman commented 2 years ago

We use the PRIMAP-hist dataset for BAU CO2 industrial process emissions in indst/BPE. EPS 3.3.0 uses version 2.1 of this dataset, which has data up through 2017. We should update to the latest version, 2.3, which includes data through 2019.

Here is a link to the latest version of this dataset (v2.3): https://zenodo.org/record/5175154

It appears that the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research updates this dataset annually, but we have not been good about updating to the latest version every time we update the EIA AEO data. We should try to update PRIMAP-hist any time we update the EIA AEO data. It looks like the main website for this dataset that, hopefully, will always link to the latest version, is: https://www.pik-potsdam.de/paris-reality-check/primap-hist/

jrissman commented 2 years ago

I went ahead and updated our BAU Process (non-energy) CO2 to the latest version of PRIMAP-hist today in f240d4d.

This update also adds a small amount of process CO2 for the use of non-energy fuel-derived products that release CO2 when used, such as certain solvents and lubricants. I assigned these to the refined petroleum products industry, since we assign emissions like this to the industry that produces the product, not to the diverse end users such as households and industries that use the products (exactly the way we assign F-gases produced and sold by the chemicals industry to the chemicals industry). This will slightly increase total CO2 emissions, since we're adding a minor emissions source we previously excluded.