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PyPSA-Earth: A flexible Python-based open optimisation model to study energy system futures around the world.
https://pypsa-earth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Revise naming for load shedding #616

Open ekatef opened 1 year ago

ekatef commented 1 year ago

Describe the feature you'd like to see

Currently load shedding* is represented as load generator with Load carrier:

https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth/blob/5da36819ba1873ebbf3d1f40558137fafd2b24ed/scripts/solve_network.py#L106-L108

That leads to some confusion when analysing modeling outputs. It might be worth to revise a bit naming conventions.

*a trick needed to ensure model feasibility (@davide-f thanks a lot for very helpful and clear explanations on that!)

pz-max commented 1 year ago

Just cross-tagging that you are aware of this possible improvement which might impact any decision here on the naming: https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth/issues/627