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Piecewise linearisation #107

Closed sjpfenninger closed 1 week ago

sjpfenninger commented 6 years ago

Permit piecewise linear formulation of some constraints, e.g. characteristic technology performance curves.

tomdeallycat commented 3 years ago

Piecewise linearization for efficiency variation with level of output power is a good candidate for this, as mentioned in your example, Stefan. Output efficiency variation with state of charge of the storage in the Supply + Storage technology would be another very useful capability. Without it, I don't think we have a way to represent the result of changing "head" with water level in a hydropower reservoir and its significant impact on output power of the hydroelectric dam.