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calliope-project / euro-calliope

A workflow to build models of the European electricity system for Calliope.
https://euro-calliope.readthedocs.io
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Potentials in continental model are too high #252

Open timtroendle opened 1 year ago

timtroendle commented 1 year ago

What happened?

Within #250 we noticed that the potentials in the continental model are too high and inconsistent with the national and regional resolutions. For example, when running the minimal workflow, UK and Ireland have the potential to generate enough electricity on rooftops to cover the entire European electricity demand -- which is of course not correct. National and regional potentials are more than 10 times smaller.

This may be an issue with the minimal workflow.

Version

1.2.0.dev

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timtroendle commented 1 year ago

It's possible that this is a cause of #253.

timtroendle commented 3 months ago

This only happens when one filters the scope on the continental resolution. The cause of this bug is the input data: in the input data, the continental resolution contains all countries. If in this workflow countries are filtered, they still get the input for all countries in Europe.

A workaround would be to use national data on the continental resolution and filter and reagreggate that data. Not the prettiest solution though.