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Update default year for IRENA RES scaling #1106

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion config.default.yaml
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Expand Up @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ electricity:

estimate_renewable_capacities:
stats: "irena" # False, = greenfield expansion, 'irena' uses IRENA stats to add expansion limits
year: 2020 # Reference year, available years for IRENA stats are 2000 to 2020
year: 2023 # Reference year, available years for IRENA stats are 2000 to 2023
p_nom_min: 1 # any float, scales the minimum expansion acquired from stats, i.e. 110% of <years>'s capacities => p_nom_min: 1.1
p_nom_max: false # sets the expansion constraint, False to deactivate this option and use estimated renewable potentials determine by the workflow, float scales the p_nom_min factor accordingly
technology_mapping:
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion doc/configtables/electricity.csv
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Expand Up @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ conventional_carriers,--,"Any subset of {nuclear, oil, OCGT, CCGT, coal, lignite
renewable_carriers,--, "Any subset of {solar, onwind, offwind-ac, offwind-dc, hydro}", "List of renewable power plants to include in the model from ``resources/powerplants.csv``."
estimate_renewable_capacities,,,
-- stats,, "{""irena"" or False}", "Defines which database to use, currently only ""irena"" is available. ""irena"" uses IRENA stats to add expansion limits. ``False`` enables greenfield expansion."
-- year,, "Any year beetween 2000 and 2020", "Reference year for renewable capacities. Available years for IRENA stats are from 2000 to 2020."
-- year,, "Any year beetween 2000 and 2023", "Reference year for renewable capacities. Available years for IRENA stats are from 2000 to 2023."
-- p_nom_min,,float,"Scales the minimum expansion acquired from stats. For example, 110% of <years>'s capacities is obtained with p_nom_min: 1.1."
-- p_nom_max,,float or ``False``,"sets the expansion constraint, False to deactivate this option and use estimated renewable potentials determine by the workflow, float scales the p_nom_min factor accordingly."
-- technology_mapping,,, "Maps the technologies defined in ppm.data.Capacity_stats with the carriers in PyPSA-Earth."
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions doc/release_notes.rst
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**Minor Changes and bug-fixing**

* The default configuration for `electricity:estimate_renewable_capacities:year` was updated from 2020 to 2023. `PR #1106 <https://github.com/pypsa-meets-earth/pypsa-earth/pull/1106>`_


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