search

REAM-lab / switch

A Modern Platform for Planning High-Renewable Power Systems
http://switch-model.org/
Other
10 stars 8 forks source link

Handling of pumped hydro #43

Open staadecker opened 3 years ago

staadecker commented 3 years ago

@jszinai mentioned that currently pumped hydro is handled as a normal generation plant with negative capacity factors for charging. There's no constraint on state of charge or the like. Do we want to handle pumped hydro with the storage module?

staadecker commented 3 years ago

+1 for this issue since recent results from my run show that as a dispatchable resource hydro has a big impact on how much we need seasonal storage. Modelling pumped hydro properly and hydro in general is very important!

staadecker commented 2 years ago

In my modeling, I find that pumped hydro plants are modeled the exact same as run-of-river plants. The effect is that in practice, I am not modeling pumped hydro at all...