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Add Estimated Jobs Created for electricity end-use #240

Closed softwareengineerprogrammer closed 1 week ago

softwareengineerprogrammer commented 1 week ago

https://github.com/NREL/GEOPHIRES-X/issues/232?title=Add+Geothermal+Rising+basic+economic+correlations

Per https://geothermal.org/resources/geothermal-basics:

Jobs Boost. Geothermal power plants employ about 1.17 persons per MW. Adding related governmental, administrative, and technical jobs, the number increases to 2.13.

Calculates Estimated Jobs Created as Electricity Produced MW * 2.13 when End-Use option is electricity.

Screenshot from SHR 1 Example:

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softwareengineerprogrammer commented 1 week ago

How about we add an input parameter that is the "Jobs Created per MW" multiplier, and set it by default to 2.13? Then, when the number changes, we don't have to change a hard-coded value.

Makes sense, done.