Would it be useful to have a parameter to limit storage capacity?

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The GNU MathProg implementation of OSeMOSYS

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Would it be useful to have a parameter to limit storage capacity? #53

Open HauHe opened 4 years ago

HauHe commented 4 years ago

Perhaps I missed something in the code, but to me it seem like we don't have a parameter to limit storage capacity, i.e. equivalent to the TotalAnnualMaxCapacity/TotalAnnualMinCapacity for the technologies. Wouldn't that be useful? E.g. when one has an estimate for the hydro storage potential of a country. Or one wants to consider PHS projects that are to be built?

tniet commented 4 years ago

Hi @HauHe - Great question, and something I have created in the alternate storage code branch (https://github.com/OSeMOSYS/OSeMOSYS_GNU_MathProg/tree/AlternateStorageCode) as well as code to require refilling of the storage at the end of the model period. Should this be included in the base OSeMOSYS code is an open question (see issue #51). I think storage is important for the energy transition and representing storage effectively is an open modelling challenge.