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Rule add_electricity

Rule add_electricity#

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Adds electrical generators, load and existing hydro storage units to a base network.

Relevant Settings#

costs:
    year:
    version:
    rooftop_share:
    USD2013_to_EUR2013:
    dicountrate:
    emission_prices:

electricity:
    max_hours:
    marginal_cost:
    capital_cost:
    conventional_carriers:
    co2limit:
    extendable_carriers:
    include_renewable_capacities_from_OPSD:
    estimate_renewable_capacities_from_capacity_stats:

renewable:
    hydro:
        carriers:
        hydro_max_hours:
        hydro_max_hours_default:
        hydro_capital_cost:

lines:
    length_factor:

See also

Documentation of the configuration file config.yaml at costs, electricity, load_options, renewable, lines

Inputs#

  • resources/costs.csv: The database of cost assumptions for all included technologies for specific years from various sources; e.g. discount rate, lifetime, investment (CAPEX), fixed operation and maintenance (FOM), variable operation and maintenance (VOM), fuel costs, efficiency, carbon-dioxide intensity.

  • data/bundle/hydro_capacities.csv: Hydropower plant store/discharge power capacities, energy storage capacity, and average hourly inflow by country. Not currently used!

    ../_images/hydrocapacities.png

  • data/geth2015_hydro_capacities.csv: alternative to capacities above; not currently used!

  • resources/demand_profiles.csv: a csv file containing the demand profile associated with buses

  • resources/shapes/gadm_shapes.geojson: confer Rule build_shapes

  • resources/powerplants.csv: confer Rule build_powerplants

  • resources/profile_{}.nc: all technologies in config["renewables"].keys(), confer Rule build_renewable_profiles

  • networks/base.nc: confer Rule base_network

Outputs#

  • networks/elec.nc:

Description#

The rule add_electricity ties all the different data inputs from the preceding rules together into a detailed PyPSA network that is stored in networks/elec.nc. It includes:

  • today’s transmission topology and transfer capacities (in future, optionally including lines which are under construction according to the config settings lines: under_construction and links: under_construction),

  • today’s thermal and hydro power generation capacities (for the technologies listed in the config setting electricity: conventional_carriers), and

  • today’s load time-series (upsampled in a top-down approach according to population and gross domestic product)

It further adds extendable generators with zero capacity for

  • photovoltaic, onshore and AC- as well as DC-connected offshore wind installations with today’s locational, hourly wind and solar capacity factors (but no current capacities),

  • additional open- and combined-cycle gas turbines (if OCGT and/or CCGT is listed in the config setting electricity: extendable_carriers)

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