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I have just joined nemo-devel at the invitation of Ben Elliston. I sent him an email that described a problem that I encountered with the scenario that is the subject of this email, and he asked me to repost the description to this list.</div>
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I am very new to running nemo code. I have come to nemo as a result of reading "100% renewable electricity in Australia" by Blakers, Lu, and Stocks. And I came to that paper because I am trying to model 100% renewable electricity in Canada. I am particularly
interested in the provisioning of storage as a balancing tool on the grid.</div>
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So, to the task at hand.</div>
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I loaded nemo in Pycharm that is running Python 3 and tried out the sample code on the Jupyter Notebook page. I had to put() around the argument to the print command. </div>
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I then went on to try the re100_batteries scenario</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">I have attached a file listing the code that I ran and the output.</span></div>
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One of the lines is</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">print(c.generators).</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">All of the solar and wind resources are 0kW. The hydro resources had positive capacity values.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">Three of the code lines are:</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">print(c.total_demand())</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">print(c.unserved_energy())</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">print(c.unserved_percent())</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">print(c.surplus_energy())</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">The corresponding output is:</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">204366325.39999998</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">160085913.39999998</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">78.33282371088715</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">I saw the wind_limit, pv_limit, and cst_limit lists in polygons.py and was expecting those numbers to show up in the c.generators output as the capacities for the renewable resources, but they did not.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">I am hoping that one of you recognizes the problem right off the bat and can provide me with some guidance on what to do about it.</span></div>
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I did a bit of stepping through the code in the debugger but I think that probably triggered web request timeouts. So I would have to think through a bit more on how to breakpoint the code to avoid the timeouts.</div>
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That said, the output suggests that the trace files were retrieved. So the main question appears to be why the renewable resources were not provisioned with capacity.</div>
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Regards,</div>
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