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(P)lan for (R)ap(I)d (DE)carbonization
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Updated CWS and GEOT given the new data #152

Closed robfairh closed 3 years ago

robfairh commented 3 years ago

Fixes #150. Here is the figure of the new model:

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As GEOT has two outputs that have different units (MWth and tons) I preferred to split the conversion from ELC to UCWS into two steps. GEOT converts MWe into MWth. And DGEOT converts MWth into tons. This way, we can calculate TechOutputSplit using the thermal outputs from GEOT. Let me know what you think about this @samgdotson.

robfairh commented 3 years ago

I think I understood. That's what I am trying to avoid. Cause I need the capacity of the geothermal plant. If the outputs have different units, how do we calculate the capacity? My way, the outputs have the same units, and obtaining a capacity is easier.

robfairh commented 3 years ago

Here are some figures with the results:

robfairh commented 3 years ago

@samgdotson it seems like the capacity of the geothermal plant is counted both for the steam and the chilled water production. This is the problem with having both plants as only one technology. We might need to separate the technologies after all. The problem is that TEMOA will most likely deploy steam and chilled water geothermal plants with capacities that are not correlated to each other, which is not true in real life.

robfairh commented 3 years ago

@samgdotson this is ready for review. I cleaned the jupyter notebooks and I fixed a few things. Among those things, we were confusing mega-tons with kilo-tons in some tables. Similarly to GWh and MW, the activity units for UCWS should be mega-ton-hours, while for the capacity, the units should be kilo-tons. I corrected some numbers based on that.

samgdotson commented 3 years ago

Merging, inspite of failed checks -- circle ci config file is not properly set up.