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Investige low potentials #16

Closed energyLS closed 1 year ago

energyLS commented 1 year ago

Why are the potentials so low? Am I doing something wrong in the analysis?

Potentials are added in add_electricity.py. When debugging the potentials are fine, nc output is created and tested successfully. When running the snakemake workflow from pypsa-earth-sec, the potentials are much lower. It must have something to do with the config.pypsa-earth.yaml? Yes: https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth-sec/blob/main/config.pypsa-earth.yaml#L130

Also, the yearly export demand of 5 TWh can't be met (model infeasable), 1 TWh is possible. Does this relate to low potentials?

for tech in ["onwind", "solar"]: potential = n.generators[n.generators.carrier == tech].p_nom_max print(f"The number of {tech} generators is {len(potential)}") print(f"The total {tech} potential is {potential.sum():.2f} MW")

energyLS commented 1 year ago

In the test case, the potentials for nigeria and benin are much higher and realistic