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Data source for the Energy Transition Model
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Add small-scale wind & update solar PV and industry efficiency sliders #2996

Closed KoenvanB closed 8 months ago

KoenvanB commented 8 months ago

This pull request contains three adjustments of and additions to the front-end:

  1. Update industry efficiency input statements to 'overall efficiency improvement' instead of 'efficiency improvement/year';
  2. Change solar PV capacity input statements to MW instead of '% of rooftop area potential';
  3. Add a 'land use of solar and wind' visual to the front end, including input statements to distribute existing onshore inland wind capacity between large-scale and small-scale turbines.

Additionally, as a part of feature 3, the households_water_heater_solar_thermal.converter node has been updated with data from a new NSA.

Issues to check:

Closes #2591

mabijkerk commented 8 months ago

Update industry efficiency input statements to 'overall efficiency improvement' instead of 'efficiency improvement/year';

All these changes require an accompanying migration that sets existing inputs to updated or new inputs.

mabijkerk commented 8 months ago

Change solar PV capacity input statements to MW instead of '% of rooftop area potential';

This changes also require a migration.

mabijkerk commented 8 months ago

Two main issues stand out for me with the small and large wind turbines. First, the full load hours of the small-scale wind turbines is higher than those of large scale wind turbines. This seems counter-intuitive to me, as I would expect larger wind turbines to benefit from higher wind speeds at hub height. See screenshot below.

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Second, by allocating part of the installed capacity for wind turbines to small scale and large scale, but then using a new amount of full load hours for the small scale, the total amount of electricity generated by wind turbines in land does not add up. For example, in a blank nl2019 scenario with 50/50 large and small, I get the following electricity production:

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This sums to 5410 GWh. But if I then just query the original amount of electricity produced by wind turbines in land, I get 2412 MW times 2070 flh, so roughly 5010 GWh. For me this seems counter-intuitive: I would expect the amount of electricity produced by small and large scale wind turbines to sum to the total amount of electricity produced by in land wind turbines.