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PyPSA-Eur: A Sector-Coupled Open Optimisation Model of the European Energy System
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Calculate co2base depending on selected countries #402

Open pz-max opened 1 year ago

pz-max commented 1 year ago

Describe the feature you'd like to see

Currently, the co2 emissions for the 1990 base year are hard-coded in the config for Europe only. When the user wants to optimize only one country or a set of countries, they have to manually check and change the emissions for 1990. https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/blob/5bf439009602ee950e509e12d1a4664ffc7bae54/config.default.yaml#L35-L40

What is proposed here, is to calculate the co2base automatically. A simple string could activate this automatic co2base calculation:

co2base: "automatic"  # "automatic" will set the co2base according to XXX, use any float number to define the co2base manually

A function which retrieves the data for the given countries and that calculates the co2base could be implemented in a "utils" folder and imported where the co2 constraints are defined. Depending on the data situation, we could host a CSV with all emissions per sector for all countries in the world. In case no data is available for a given country, an assertion is triggered which invites users to contribute detailed assumptions with references.

fneum commented 1 year ago

You can pickup this PR again:

https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/pull/89

But I have closed it because it was not a priority for us.

pz-max commented 1 year ago

You can pickup this PR again:

https://github.com/PyPSA/pypsa-eur/pull/89

But I have closed it because it was not a priority for us.

Cool thanks for sharing 🙂. Should have looked into this before. I think the issue raised here is especially useful if the study scope changes often.