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quintel / etsource

Data source for the Energy Transition Model
https://energytransitionmodel.com/
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Normalise curves to 1 instead of to 1/3600 #3010

Open mabijkerk opened 4 months ago

mabijkerk commented 4 months ago

Currently, the curves on ETSource sum up to 1/3600. This is because the demands in the graph in MJ can then be immediately converted to hourly demands in MW (because 3600 MJ go into one MWh). I think that the sum of 1/3600 is extremely counterintuitive and would argue that we can just as easily implement a factor 1/3600 in ETEngine that handles the conversion, allowing the curves to sum to 1 instead.

What do you think @noracato?

noracato commented 4 months ago

Each calculation we have to do less on the fly matters. So if this is not necessary to add, let's not add it.

mabijkerk commented 4 months ago

I think in this case the benefits would outweigh the (relatively small?) increase in computation time. In any case, this has no priority. I mainly wanted to open this for the backlog.