pencleanenergy / MATCH-model

MATCH model for planning time-coincident clean energy portfolios
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Add hedge contract premiums to objective function #35

Closed grgmiller closed 3 years ago

grgmiller commented 3 years ago

For scenarios when we have an open position in some hours (anytime that is not 100% time coincident), we should model the cost of hedge contracts for those month-hours.

Hedge contracts are typically sold as month-hour weekday/weekend products, so they would not exactly match our load profile. One way to approach this would be to have a decision variable for shaped hedge contracts, but we could also just approximate hedge contract costs by assigning a premium to all system power, and not worry about the shape of a specific hedge product.