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Question - Aggregating to US provides the same results as aggregating to BA #158

Closed tjlca closed 3 years ago

tjlca commented 3 years ago

@jump2conclusionsmatt From the code, its evident that regional aggregation to US and BA regions follow the same calculation route. Was this intentional? Will we have a method in the future that aggregates to only the US? In this database, we will only have flows of different fuel sources that has been aggregated for all spatial regions. Example -

_Region FuelCategory FlowNames FlowAmount Emissionfactor US GAS CO2 5000 500

Additionally @jump2conclusionsmatt How would you recommend to create this kind of aggregated results now?

m-jamieson commented 3 years ago

Yes - it's intentional because when we started looking at how consumption mixes are calculated, creating mixes based on FERC generation mixes would lead to erroneous results. So the default path creates consumption mixes for BA, FERC, and US. If you need to create generation mixes that will need to be handled manually - again hijacking gen_plus_fuels data frame and changing the subregion code to "FERC" or "US" at this line.

tjlca commented 3 years ago

@jump2conclusionsmatt Thanks.I will close this issue.