discussion: shall we loose the 'Power plants' chart?

[Richard-Deuchler]

I think the _Power plants_ chart is not very useful. I propose to delete it.

• The main purpose of the table is to display how much electricity is generated from each primary energy carrier. However, this is also shown in the 'Electricity production' chart. That one has a nice layout and table function.
• All other information that is displayed in 'Power plants' (that cannot be seen in 'Electricity production') is not very useful:
  • The number of plants is misleading, as solar PV and little CHPs can lead to millions of installed power plants.
  • The investment costs cover large scale central generation AND small scale local production (CHP also produce useful heat, which gives a wrong impression of investment costs). Small-scale CHPs are dealt with under Costs > Heating technologies. And the the costs for large-scale plants can be seen in the 'Total cost of electricity production' chart.

@AlexanderWirtz , @dennisschoenmakers shall we keep this table?

[dennisquintel]

I say: delete it. Agree with Richard's arguments.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Richard-Deuchler <notifications@github.com

wrote:

I think the Power plants chart is not very useful. I propose to delete it. [image: Screen Shot 2013-02-25 at 09 59 06]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/2749265/191173/4ce12240-7f2a-11e2-8fd0-3deefdce2e79.png

• The main purpose of the table is to display how much electricity is generated from each primary energy carrier. However, this is also shown in the 'Electricity production' chart. That one has a nice layout and table function.
• All other information that is displayed in 'Power plants' (that cannot be seen in 'Electricity production') is not very useful:
  • The number of plants is misleading, as solar PV and little CHPs can lead to millions of installed power plants.
  • The investment costs cover large scale central generation AND small scale local production (CHP also produce useful heat, which gives a wrong impression of investment costs). The costs for small-scale CHPs cannot be changed by the user. And the the costs for large-scale plants can be seen in the 'Total cost of electricity production' chart.

@AlexanderWirtz https://github.com/AlexanderWirtz , @dennisschoenmakershttps://github.com/dennisschoenmakersshall we keep this table?

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[ChaelKruip]

I'll hide it for now. If anyone misses it, we can put it back (or improve it).

[AlexanderWirtz]

kill kill kill it's obsolete