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Calculates node demands and edge shares for sparse energy graphs.
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How to deal with InputExcel specific power plants #34

Closed wmeyers closed 10 years ago

wmeyers commented 10 years ago

There are two power plant converters (central production) which are used in the model to provide backwards compatibility with the InputExcel. These converters have been replaced in the graph with the same names but with a _rdr suffix.

energy 1-finished-incalculable png

How do we deal with these in Refinery? They shouldn't be used and I have the feeling that the fact that their demands are unknown is not helping in calculating the whole energy sector.

Now that .ad files in etsource are separate from the InputExcel, I guess maybe its a good idea to just remove the associated .ad files of these nodes and their edges. @antw, do you think this is the best way to proceed?

Another solution is to set the demand for these converters to zero with a query.

wmeyers commented 10 years ago

Also adding @StijnDellaert to this conversation

ChaelKruip commented 10 years ago

I guess maybe its a good idea to just remove the associated .ad files of these nodes and their edges.

The plan was to not include them in the first place, so removing them seems fine by me :smile: Actually, they have to be removed before we can start using the graph with the front-end. The reason is that the "_rdr" converters have to be renamed first to the "non-rdr" names (i.e., the rdr suffix needs to be removed) for them to be associated with a slider.

wmeyers commented 10 years ago

Let's wait for @antw's advice on the matter

wmeyers commented 10 years ago

@antw, does this mean we don't have to delete the nodes and edges?

antw commented 10 years ago

We were ignoring energy_chp_ultra_supercritical_coal and energy_power_ultra_supercritical_coal when calculating only the subgraphs, but not the full-size graph. Fixed!

They shouldn't be used and I have the feeling that the fact that their demands are unknown is not helping in calculating the whole energy sector.

You're right. Removing them reduces the number of incalculable nodes/edges from 244 to 233.

@antw, does this mean we don't have to delete the nodes and edges?

No, you can leave them in ETSource; they'd just get recreated next time we imported from the InputExcel YAML files anyway. They'll disappear once removed from InputExcel, and if we switch away from InputExcel before that happens, we can delete the .ad files then.