Add dynamic electricity prices

[RonaldBerk]

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What would your feature do ?

Heat sources and especially elektrodeboilers are potentially important heat sources that mainly use electricity to generate heat with low CO2 emissions. This can specifically be economically interesting when elelctricty prices are very low. When dynamic electricity proces are added to the mix the Toolkit could use the dynamic electricity prices (day ahead) based off last year per hour to calculate when it's interesting to make use of Power to Heat to reduce the TCO.

Proposed workflow

1. Go to EDR assets and place high electricty demand sources (Heat Pump, Geothermal and Electrode boiler, which have COP)
2. Press specify costs for the specific assets and select using dynamic electricity prices as a checmark box, with a cap of the maximum electricity price when the source can be used per MWh.
3. Simulate or optimize the network with dynamic prices

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[samvanderzwan]

Good points. @jimrojerTNO can the optimizer already cope with dynamic prices? @edwinmatthijssen is it possible to specify a dynamic year profile for prices in ESDL and mapeditor? @WouterSpaak could for you to know this request to keep this in mind for TPG front end? @samvanderzwan This is requirement which we can take along for the controller of the simulator. @samvanderzwan We can also take this along for the KPI calculator to be able to calculate with a dynamic price.

[jimrojerTNO]

The optimizer can deal with dynamic prices if you provide it a profile for the price. So if we can get the electriciyt profile price somewhere in the esdl then we can support this easily.

[ewoudwerkman]

You can add a price profile to a Carrier or Commodity (e.g. ElectricityCommodity).

[edwinmat]

Yes, this is possible in the MapEditor. When adding the electricity commodity you can specify "profile" and then select a price profile that you uploaded earlier.