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Hi Ben,<br>
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After doing some more reading of some of your publications and resources such as the user guide (from Jupyter), I had some questions <br>
that I was hoping to get some clarification to help shape the direction of my project and the literature review. <br>
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1) The 'replacement' supply scenario <br>
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In the user guide the <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">'replacement' supply scenario is defined as " The current NEM fleet, more or less." , My questions regarding
this are the <br>
following: <br>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Is it possible to see /print out what this supply situation is so that it can be compared to the current NEM fleet? </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Is it possible to adjust the <span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">'replacement'
</span>supply situation ? ( for example, adding Snowy 2.0 to hydropower supply or removing <br>
the equivalent of hazelwood from generation in the relevant polygon )</span></li></ul>
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">2) Changing trace files <br>
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>From what I've seen, it appears that NEMO's default data source is the 2012 trace files used in AEMO's 2013 100% renewable study. <br>
I've also seen on the user guide that the configuration file can be configured in the following way: "demand-trace -- URL of demand trace data".<br>
It was recommended to me by supervisors to use a recent source of data due to reasons such as increased rooftop PV.<br>
A suggested data source was AEMO's 2018 ISP.<br>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">From: <a href="https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/major-publications/integrated-system-plan-isp/2018-integrated-system-plan-isp/2018-isp-database" id="LPlnk394250">https://aemo.com.au/en/energy-systems/major-publications/integrated-system-plan-isp/2018-integrated-system-plan-isp/2018-isp-database</a> -
It is possible to obtain excel sheets of traces.<br>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Is there documentation on how to go from an excel file to the appropriate "<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">URL
of demand trace data" ? (or other types of traces) <br>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">3)
Reference Scenario (question for Mike and Anna as well) <br>
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In your Article <i>Comparing least cost scenarios for 100% renewable electricity with </i><i style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">low emission fossil
fuel scenarios in the Australian National Electricity </i><i>Market, </i>you mention "A criticism of the AEMO study has been that no reference scenario is provided to put the costs into context with alternative scenarios that can equally fulfil climate protection
objectives".<br>
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My current plans are to perform two types of optimisations: replacement scenario and least cost scenario (not taking into account existing fleet).<br>
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As I have not found many papers utilizing the replacement setting, I will most likely have to create my own reference scenario for the replacement case. However, I was wondering the following about performing the least cost new fleet simulations: </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">Would
it be appropriate to use one of your previous results <span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">as my refence scenario ? </span> (e.g. replacement of the current fossil-fuelled
NEM generation fleet with modern, thermally efficient plants) - or would I need to recreate one of your previous results with the new 2018 data source? <br>
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<div>Thank you for any assistance you can provide on the above matters. <br>
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Regards, <br>
<br>
Jonathan Rispler, (z5115736) </div>
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