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Synchronous condensers: need to be turned on by if switch #1

Open absolute-afloat opened 7 months ago

absolute-afloat commented 7 months ago

Aug 30, 2022

And further to this, I forgot to mention the one thing I commented out was: https://github.com/highRES-model/highRES-Europe-GAMS/blob/8ac9041a1756f42437d177c8877ad6116250a3c4/highres.gms#L300 var_gen.LO(h,z,"SynCon")=-inf; commented out currently because synchronous condensers might not be available in technology selection -> need to build an if statement here such that this code is turned on when the tech is available.

We can leave that commented for now but it will need a fix at some stage. The issue here is synchronous condensers are the only technology that has a negative generation (i.e. takes power from the grid) in the model right now.

Cheers

James