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A system for calculating hourly electricity and heat loads with a merit order
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non-dispatchable profiles - which year/dataset shall we use? #75

Closed Richard-Deuchler closed 11 years ago

Richard-Deuchler commented 11 years ago

I investigated the profiles that define when certain CHPs are operating. I found that a couple of adjustments need to be made so that all profiles _'share the same calendar'._

  1. the buildings_chp is a result of domestic gas demand. This profile is taken from a GasTerra model [contact person Anne Braaksma/GasTerra]. The curve has great detail, as it reflects hourlly demand quite accurately. _It is a 2012 profile_ that reflects public holdiays, weekends etc. Therefore, this profile is not easy to shift to other years (e.g. it would have to start on another weekday). What shall we do with this profile?
  2. the agriculture and industry profiles are hand-made and can easily be adjusted to any year. They only reflect weekdays/weekends and do not consider public holidays. It is still unclear whether these two profiles got interchanged accidentally.
  3. the total demand is an actual measurement for electricity consumption (HV grid level). TenneT load curves are available for the years 2009 - 2012.

Which year should the ETM/merit order reflect? How do we make the buildings_CHP profile fit that year (if it is not 2012)?

The wind and solar profiles do not have to 'match calendar'. In principle, the 2010 wind curve could be used on any other year, it just might not look very convincing to an outsider if we 'mix years'

Richard-Deuchler commented 11 years ago

including @ChaelKruip in this ticket

AlexanderWirtz commented 11 years ago

@Richard-Deuchler good point. All statistics for the ETM is for 2010, right now. I say we use that year. This is the lesser evil, even if it is for a year in which there was less volatile renewable capacity than 2012 and therefore results are less dramatic. Consistency is required.

FYI: This year we will update from CSB 2010 to IEA 2010 , i.e. not 2011.

Richard-Deuchler commented 11 years ago

I will update the curves to 2010 and hand them to Chael. I sent an email to Anne Braaksma at GasTerra; hopefully, we will get a real 2010 profile for the gas consumption that we can use for the buildings_CHP profile. If not, I will have to make the 2012 profile fit 2010 somehow.

ChaelKruip commented 11 years ago

Closing.