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quintel / etlocal

Regional data analysis tool for the Energy Transition Model
https://data.energytransitionmodel.com/
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Set capacity for power plants instead of full load hours #393

Open marliekeverweij opened 2 years ago

marliekeverweij commented 2 years ago

At the moment the ETM Dataset Manager needs three specification for power plants:

  1. Full load hours
  2. Electricity production
  3. Efficiency The ETM will calculate the installed capacity based on the flh & electricity production.

For (old) power plants that have not been active in that year there will be no electricity production, this means that no installed capacity will be present in the ETM. It would be nice to see all power plants in the base year reflected, then you know all plants that are already built and you do not have to build new ones (incl. costs).

Therefore, we were thinking that it would be nice to set the installed capacity in the ETM DM directly together with the full load hours OR the electricity production. I was wondering: is this possible? Then we probably have to add a new graph_method for capacity.....

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mabijkerk commented 3 months ago

To summarise: installed capacities seem to be a more widely used point of reference for source data than full load hours for heat and power plants. Ideally we would therefore rework both ETLocal and ETSource, to accept installed capacities, instead of full load hours.

This is an enhancement idea that may be picked up at some point.