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Grouping of GSPs in Dataset 1 #44

Closed slowe closed 2 years ago

slowe commented 2 years ago

In the 2021 FES electricity map data files there are some GSPs that appear to have been grouped e.g. ACTL_2;CBNK_H;GREE_H;PERI_H and BARKC1;BARKW3. Are there reasons for the groupings? How are they combined? The visualisation code doesn't know how to do anything clever with grouping so it will just be assuming that the polygons for GSPs and the splitting (to NUTS) use identical labels. By itself it isn't a problem but we'd like to make an automated pipeline for the Building Blocks visualisation data. To do that we would need to know what and how to group GSPs in the same way so that we can reuse the polygons and splitting files.

jrgwhiteford commented 2 years ago

The GSPs are grouped for a number of reasons - either we don't have the data to create separate regions, the regions are too "meshed" within the DNO, or one of the GSPs is an embedded offshore wind farm so needs linking to the onshore GSP. Where we combine the GSPs, this naturally flows through the visualisation (shapefiles are linked to the combination). let me know if you are happy with this explanation @slowe and i will close the issue

slowe commented 2 years ago

@jrgwhiteford That's great. It was worth double-checking that it was consistent. I agree it can be closed.