Submit solar technology potential results for test run

[martin-mosteiro]

In order to do @shanshanhsieh's exercise during the test run, we will need to run the solar technology potential plots tool. In order to run the plots tool we currently need the potential for all solar technologies to have been run in advance. This is an issue in itself (#1354) but it won't be solved before the test run this week.

Solution: we will have the students run the potential for PV technology PV1 only and we will provide the rest of the results to them so they can run the plots tool. So we need the results of the solar technology potential calculation for every one of the scenarios. Fortunately, you've all run them as part of the scenario testing! So @BhargavaKrishnaSreepathi, @JIMENOFONSECA, @gabriel-happle, @shizhongming, @shanshanhsieh, @ongbolie, @roglen and @amraladdin please submit all your solar technology potential results by the evening of Tuesday May 22nd so we can spend Wednesday May 23rd hectically preparing the materials for the students for Thursday May 24th!

[gabriel-happle]

@shanshanhsieh please list the parameters to run the simulations, so that it is consistent. Thanks

[BhargavaKrishnaSreepathi]

Hi All,

Consider the following things in the config file before you run the solar potentials:

In the cea.config file present on your desktop: [solar] date-start = 2016-01-01 type-pvpanel = PV1 type-scpanel = SC1 panel-on-roof = True panel-on-wall = True annual-radiation-threshold = 1100000 solar-window-solstice = 4 t-in-sc = 75 t-in-pvt = 35 dpl = 200 fcr = 1.3 ro = 1000 eff-pumping = 0.6 k-msc-max = 0.217

The above conditions are for running photovoltaic.py, photovoltaic-thermal.py and Solar collector with (SC1)

When it is SC2, please update the type-scpanel = SC2 and t-in-sc = 150

date-start = 2016-01-01 type-pvpanel = PV1 type-scpanel = SC2 panel-on-roof = True panel-on-wall = True annual-radiation-threshold = 1100000 solar-window-solstice = 4 t-in-sc = 150 t-in-pvt = 35 dpl = 200 fcr = 1.3 ro = 1000 eff-pumping = 0.6 k-msc-max = 0.217

[jimenofonseca]

@martin-mosteiro I sent you the results via e-mail about 50MB

[shanshanhsieh]

@martin-mosteiro @amraladdin in several case studies, the outputs of solar technologies are zero, this is because the threshold is too high, therefore, none of the surfaces are selected to install panels.

to keep all the case studies consistent, we still simulate all cases with the same threshold. however, the plots are buggy when the total output is zero. this has been addressed in #1369 , and the PR is in reviewed now.

[roglen]

Same, sent the results to @martin-mosteiro per email since it's about 50 MB

[martin-mosteiro]

@roglen Haven't received them yet but I guess they're on their way :)

[roglen]

@martin-mosteiro i sent it on slack in the end, outlook is buggy...

[gabriel-happle]

I'm not sure if I can finish. Wanted to create them from ArcGIS, but apparently it can get stuck in PVT calculation! see #1373 Trying to finish from PyCharm now.

[shanshanhsieh]

dear Singapore team (@JIMENOFONSECA , @BhargavaKrishnaSreepathi , @ongbolie , @roglen , @gabriel-happle )

i would like to request you to test a branch for me with the following steps:

1. save the solar potential folder you simulated yesterday somewhere else
2. go to branch i1289
3. From pycharm, run phovoltaic.py, phovoltaic_thermal.py, and solar_collector.py with this config settings: (the 3 scripts can be ran in parallel)

[general] scenario = C:**your case study region = SIN weather = Singapore-2016 multiprocessing = true [solar] date-start = 2016-01-01 type-pvpanel = PV1 type-scpanel = SC1 panel-on-roof = True panel-on-wall = True annual-radiation-threshold = 800000** solar-window-solstice = 4 t-in-sc = 75 t-in-pvt = 35 dpl = 200 fcr = 1.3 ro = 1000 eff-pumping = 0.6 k-msc-max = 0.217

4. run solar_collector.py again with these settings:

[general] scenario = C:**your case study region = SIN weather = Singapore-2016 multiprocessing = true [solar] date-start = 2016-01-01 type-pvpanel = PV1 type-scpanel = SC2 panel-on-roof = True panel-on-wall = True annual-radiation-threshold = 800000 solar-window-solstice = 4 t-in-sc = 150** t-in-pvt = 35 dpl = 200 fcr = 1.3 ro = 1000 eff-pumping = 0.6 k-msc-max = 0.217

5. run the plots
6. let me know if it works or not : )

thank you for your time!

[shanshanhsieh]

@JIMENOFONSECA , @BhargavaKrishnaSreepathi , @roglen , @ongbolie , @gabriel-happle , @amraladdin , @martin-mosteiro please upload all the results (in potential/solar) once you finish step 1-3 so i can check the results, thanks!

this is the folder to collect the results: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13K0l5Iv0kMnPgkKdKEoT48QlWUX_tqjg?usp=sharing

[amraladdin]

Done. "RES_Low Density" case study, steps 1-3 is uploaded.

[BhargavaKrishnaSreepathi]

Done. For both '01_CBD_medium_density' and 'CBD_high_density'

[jimenofonseca]

Done for scenario 02

[martin-mosteiro]

Based on @shanshanhsieh's update, none of the solar technology potentials from yesterday can be used. So I took the liberty of deleting all of the messages containing old files in this thread to avoid confusion.

The second half of the update is: with the new master the results are much more accurate, but will only be available by tomorrow (presumably tomorrow morning Singapore time?). So @amraladdin we will have to update this tomorrow, either early morning before the course, or evening after the first session is done. Not ideal, but the solar part will only be used on Friday anyway.

[shanshanhsieh]

@martin-mosteiro , the solar technology potentials are simulated with all 9 cases, and I ran all of them with the plots without an error. This means that, the files are ready for Friday!

[martin-mosteiro]

@shanshanhsieh Excellent! Thanks so much for doing the testing - I was about to get into it, now I can focus on @amraladdin's presentation instead.