search

calliope-project / euro-calliope

A workflow to build models of the European electricity system for Calliope.
https://euro-calliope.readthedocs.io
MIT License
31 stars 18 forks source link

Feature heat electricity demand #408

Closed brynpickering closed 4 months ago

brynpickering commented 5 months ago

Fixes #275

I have removed fully electrified heat in favour of a heat demand profile and a heat pump technology (via #393) that can meet that demand. This will add model complexity. Anyone wanting a simpler approach would need a rule to combine the heat demand profile with the heat pump COP profile to get an electricity demand profile, then add that to their model instead. @timtroendle do you think it's worth adding that in as an option or not? E.g. a rule to produce build/models/{resolution}/timeseries/demand/electrified-heat.csv and then an electrified-heat override in techs/demand/heat.yaml which can be triggered to point heat-demand to the electrified profile and to have electricity as its input carrier.

Checklist

Any checks which are not relevant to the PR can be pre-checked by the PR creator. All others should be checked by the reviewer. You can add extra checklist items here if required by the PR.

brynpickering commented 4 months ago

@timtroendle I've added electrified heat back in. One question is how to make it clear that one should choose between heat and electrified heat demands? It can't be done by overrides as you would need to link model files together. You could do it by having neither in there by default (like national transmission) and then forcing a decision to be made on loading the model. The user just then needs to remember to include heat supply techs at the same time as adding heat demand...