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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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Shape-agnostic wind and solar potentials #325

Open timtroendle opened 7 months ago

timtroendle commented 7 months ago

What can be improved?

We currently use wind and solar potentials from Zenodo that are aggregated to shapes on the continental, national, and regional layer. This is a fast and pragmatic approach, but it's also inflexible:

First, it does not allow to easily build in other resolutions without updating the input data (see for example #319). Second, it makes filtering the scope on the continental resolution complicated (see #252).

A more flexible, even if both computationally and storage-wise more intense, approach would be to use raster data as an input and then cookie-cut shapes from that data.

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1.2.0.dev

timtroendle commented 7 months ago

I never published the raster data, but I still have access to the original raster data from November 2019. There should be no difference in that data compared to the one we currently use. I can upload that data to Zenodo.

irm-codebase commented 2 months ago

@timtroendle any plans to make this data available?

Publishing those rasters (or even better, the raster-making process) would be great. With a couple alterations we could produce fully flexible modules for PV and wind data!